Need iPod help!

[oliegirl]

Real.com is running a special, download songs for 49 cents each...great deal, except they download in the "real" format, and now I can't get them on my iPod!!!! I have looked for ways to convert to mp3, but haven't been successful. Can anyone help???

[Draft Dodger]

I would try this
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/...-1-5-162.shtml but be advised, this is shareware, and you never 100% know what you're getting there

[k0ruptr]

Ipod doesnt play realformat? that sucks

[oliegirl]

It is telling me "this application is not authorized to play secured content"....

[oliegirl]

Ipod doesnt play realformat? that sucks

If it does, I can't figure out how to get it to work...I have tried drag and dropping the real downloads in there, didn't work. I synced it through real audio, and not only did that not work, but it did something to my existing songs, they are still listed, but I can't play them. Only going to sync through itunes from now on, but I need to get these songs over there...

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by k0ruptr

Ipod doesnt play realformat? that sucks

why on earth would it?

[k0ruptr]

Well a lot of mp3 players play real format, in fact I think most do. but I guess since its apple , thats reason enough not to.

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by k0ruptr

Well a lot of mp3 players play real format, in fact I think most do. but I guess since its apple , thats reason enough not to.

I guess I didn't realize anyone out there even used real anymore.

[Hurst2112]

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

I guess I didn't realize anyone out there even used real anymore.

No kidding. I try to stay away from any real audio or video if I can, for the above mentioned reason.

[Pumpy Tudors]

I don't have an iPod, so I can't help, but I'm shocked that there hasn't been more of a rush to help a real live girl on this forum. I'm disappointed in all of you guys.

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

I don't have an iPod, so I can't help, but I'm shocked that there hasn't been more of a rush to help a real live girl on this forum. I'm disappointed in all of you guys.

I gave her what she needed in the first reply in the thread...

[oliegirl]

I gave her what she needed in the first reply in the thread...

As always, men don't listen It's giving me an error message....see my reply to your post...

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

I gave her what she needed in the first reply in the thread...

But it's a GIRL! People should be like making shit up or something.

Example: say lady what u need to do is come over to my house and bring that ipod over here to big daddy. i gots what u need ok. pics plz thx

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by oliegirl

As always, men don't listen It's giving me an error message....see my reply to your post...

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by oliegirl

As always, men don't listen It's giving me an error message....see my reply to your post...

oh, I get it.
well then, in that case, I think you should definitely slip into something more comfortable and start posting some pictures of your perdicament on a message board board about football...(is that better, Pumpy?)

the rights management of the file is going to be the issue here, I guess. I'm pretty clueless about Real. With the player, do you have the ability to burn a CD? Because that's probably the only way you're going to get it to work - burn a CD of the songs, and then rip them back to the computer in MP3 format. You'll lose a bit of quality, but since you're a girl, it's probably crappy music anyway, so don't worry about that part...

[oliegirl]

Wow, thanks Draft Dodger - you're my hero!

As for the repeated requests for pictures, I don't think my fiancee, radii, would appreciate that. But if it turns you on, I am in white capri's and a hot pink polo shirt...

[AnalBumCover]

Originally Posted by oliegirl

Real.com is running a special, download songs for 49 cents each...great deal, except they download in the "real" format, and now I can't get them on my iPod!!!! I have looked for ways to convert to mp3, but haven't been successful. Can anyone help???

This might help. It's a Beta version though.

http://www.real.com/beta/harmony.html

I haven't really looked into it, but I think I read somewhere its ability to convert from real format to AAC.

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by oliegirl

Wow, thanks Draft Dodger - you're my hero!

As for the repeated requests for pictures, I don't think my fiancee, radii, would appreciate that. But if it turns you on, I am in white capri's and a hot pink polo shirt...

well, can you post more pics of radii in his white capris and hot pink polo shirt?

[korme]

Originally Posted by oliegirl

I am in white capri's and a hot pink polo shirt...

*fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap fap*

[oliegirl]

This might help. It's a Beta version though.

http://www.real.com/beta/harmony.html

I haven't really looked into it, but I think I read somewhere its ability to convert from real format to AAC

That is what I downloaded...only went to real.com b/c of the 49 cents deal...gave me a chance to indulge my music downloading obsession without radii glaring at me when he looks at the bank account online. My cd burner is on the laptop, which radii is currently using to play that new political game you guys made him buy...so tomorrow I'll try burning the songs to cd and then importing them to itunes. Hopefully that will work.

[oliegirl]

well, can you post more pics of radii in his white capris and hot pink polo shirt?

Luckily for me, he doens't own white capris or a hot pink polo shirt. And also luckily for me, he won't fit in mine Sorry guys!

[ISiddiqui]

Ipod doesnt play realformat? that sucks

Duh, of course it doesn't. iPods only play AAC format, which you can only get from iTunes. If you hadn't realized, Apple likes to bundle their things together. The only way to get Real files to AAC would be to try to burn it on a CD and then take those tracks and try to turn them in AAC files. I don't know if it'll work, but that's the only thing I can think of.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by oliegirl

As for the repeated requests for pictures, I don't think my fiancee, radii, would appreciate that. But if it turns you on, I am in white capri's and a hot pink polo shirt...

He has something against people seeing you? Does he cart you around in an opaque Samsonite product of some sort when you go out on dates?

[k0ruptr]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

Duh, of course it doesn't. iPods only play AAC format, which you can only get from iTunes. If you hadn't realized, Apple likes to bundle their things together. The only way to get Real files to AAC would be to try to burn it on a CD and then take those tracks and try to turn them in AAC files. I don't know if it'll work, but that's the only thing I can think of.

another reason to buy a nomad

[Antmeister]

That's odd. According to Real, it gives support to IPods. Did you install the device from here:
http://music.guide.real.com/realplayerdevices

I got this screen from trying to add an external device from RealPlayer.
Try it out and see if this helps.

[k0ruptr]

that looks like it could be it!

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

Duh, of course it doesn't. iPods only play AAC format, which you can only get from iTunes. If you hadn't realized, Apple likes to bundle their things together. The only way to get Real files to AAC would be to try to burn it on a CD and then take those tracks and try to turn them in AAC files. I don't know if it'll work, but that's the only thing I can think of.

um, iPods play AAC, VBR and non-VBR Mp3, AIFF, WAV and Apple Lossless formats.

[SirFozzie]

Incorrect.

Harmony, Real's new converter, converts Real Format-W/DRM, to Apple's Fairplay (W/DRM), thus making it allowable to put on an IPOD. They did this without Apple's permission (real had asked for permission to license FairPlay, Apple refused, and Real did it anyway), torquing Apple off something fierce, and I wouldn't be too sure that a future update of the Ipod wouldn't break that support, ACCIDENTALLY, of course ;D

[Hurst2112]

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

um, iPods play AAC, VBR and non-VBR Mp3, AIFF, WAV and Apple Lossless formats.

What he said.

That would suck if they only played AACs. I had about 15 GB of music that I origionally coverted before I bought my IPOD, with musicmatch. I would suck to have to rip all those CDs again.

About the real tunes for .49. It must be some great music to go through all this trouble to save 51 cents.

That's the problem with cheaper mp3 downloads, there is always a catch. It's like buying a can of Jolly Good cola. Sure, it kinda looks like coke, and tastes kinda like a coke, but when the day is done, you paid half as much for a can of Wisconsin river water flavored like coke.

"can't beat the real thing"