how to get WM file onto iPod?

Factual Questions
1

I’m computer ignorant, so pardon while I fumble around with this question:

I downloaded a self-study Spanish program onto my computer, and the audio plays with Windows Media. I guess the files are zipped (whatever that means). I can play them on the computer, but I would like to somehow transfer these on an iPod so I can travel with them, but have no idea how to do it, or even if it’s possible. Can anyone here help me?

Thank you,
Lorie

2

Um…, I’m not really sure what you are asking here. If the files are “zipped”, WMP should not even play them. If they are “unzipped”, then there are a number of programs that convert .wma to .mp3 or even redbook audio for CD.

3

Assumng the files are yours to do with as you please, you may want to google VLC or FLC.

4

First - you say the audio plays in Windows Media Player. Are the files JUST audio, or is there video attached? Cuz I don’t think the audio can be separated out.

Second - if you have iTunes, and the files are audio-only, with a WMA file extension, importing them to your iTunes library should generate a prompt asking if you want to convert the WMAs to MP3s. If you can do that, it should be fairly simple to put them on a playlist and copy them to your iPod.

5

The files are just audio (the pretty kaleidoscope color patterns entertain me though).

Maybe the files are not zipped. The instructions I got, though, were “IF you are using Windows, you can get a free program to “unzip” the files at www.winzip.com.” Like I said. Computer ignorant. I have no idea what I’m talking about apparently.

So I have to get some other program to convert them to MP3? Or import them to my iTunes library. I guess I have to figure out how to do that.

6

Typically, on Windows, the file “extension” (the part after the dot) tells you what the file type is. For example, if the file is called “spanish_lesson.zip”, then you need to extract the files inside the archive. There are free programs to do that, or is one included in Windows nowadays? I’ve never seen a version of Windows without an “unzip” facility built in.

Once you extract the files, there might be some instructions in a “.txt”, “.doc”, “.htm”, “.html” file, but there will be some files containing the audio information. The first thing to try would be to gather all the extracted files into a separate folder, go into iTunes, use the “add to library” function, and give iTunes the name of that folder. iTunes will import all the files it recognizes. If it doesn’t recognize any of the files, tell us the “file extension” of the audio files and then someone can surely give you better advice.