When turning tracts into mp3 format, does the song title, artist and length of play need to be entered manually?
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Yes, you do. Once it is entered into iTunes, it stays. Sometimes iTunes will even add the album art, but not if the songs are not already in their library.
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Actually on Windows, I convert my CD's to mp3 using the included Microsoft Media Player. Under the "rip music" tab in the preference you can select the format as "mp3" and dial up the "Audio Quality" to as much as 320 bps. Once set in preferences it runs automatically every time I stick in a CD. You don't need to add software to do this. For me the sound quality seem great ... but do note I am no longer a young person and my hearing is not what it used to be ... so this particular part of my opinion should be taken with that in mind.
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The product info said "It automatically organizes your MP3 files into different artists, styles, genre and album" ... I didn't remember it would do that cause it took me nearly a year to decide to learn how to convert my iTunes music to play on this player. I never found a note in the manual about this and I think that the playlists are not something you can do, but rather it's an id tag on your music. Read that product info again on the page. It makes this album thing sound like a plus when now I can't get my player to just play all the music one after another. I don't think it will be an easy thing to make your own playlist with it. I've only just now thought to look for a web site for them: http://pyruselectronicswebsite.blogspot.com/ Time for me to do more research...
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What I did was to create a single folder called MusicMix, and dumped almost 500 of my favorite tunes into it. I would think that if you created a complex directory structure, it might be fairly difficult to negotiate. Also, another consideration would be the class of Micro SD card you are using, the faster the read and write might be problematic. Please note that the inability to shuffling music is a huge disappointment.
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Patricia, Not sure as I only use this for downloading overdrive audiobooks from my library and they automatically get placed either in nonfiction or fiction under the genre button or in unkown. I have not created my own playlist for this. I know there is a section that stores all your songs as I have seen it on my walkman. I would suggest going somewhere that you can check this out and play with all the features for a bit in a store first such as Best where they have display units out if you can. I know Best Buy displays these sony walkman's out on dispaly. For more info check out the reviews for this on Amazon.com and Best Buy.com and you may find what you are looking for. Hope this helps.
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If you want to put together a playlist, what I do is a look in the device itself for each song I want to add to the playlist and then I press the bottom part of the control pad and then press the second option option there: "Add to playlist," and then press the center pad and that's it. Not difficult at all! I couldn't find a way to do it in the computer and then transfer it to the mp3. Good luck!
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No it does not. And I hate that so much. I don't think it wouldn't be too hard to have that feature which is sooo useful for users (at least for me :-) ). Especially when you have an mp3 CD with lots of songs on it. It starts from track 1 every time you start it.
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Patricia, Not sure as I only use this for downloading overdrive audiobooks from my library and they automatically get placed either in nonfiction or fiction under the genre button or in unkown. I have not created my own playlist for this. I know there is a section that stores all your songs as I have seen it on my walkman. I would suggest going somewhere that you can check this out and play with all the features for a bit in a store first such as Best where they have display units out if you can. I know Best Buy displays these sony walkman's out on dispaly. For more info check out the reviews for this on Amazon.com and Best Buy.com and you may find what you are looking for. Hope this helps. Patricia, Not sure as I only use this for downloading overdrive audiobooks from my library and they automatically get placed either in nonfiction or fiction under the genre button or in unkown. I have not created my own playlist for this. I know there is a section that stores all your songs as I have seen it on my walkman. I would suggest going somewhere that you can check this out and play with all the features for a bit in a store first such as Best where they have display units out if you can. I know Best Buy displays these sony walkman's out on dispaly. For more info check out the... » Read More Patricia, Not sure as I only use this for downloading overdrive audiobooks from my library and they automatically get placed either in nonfiction or fiction under the genre button or in unkown. I have not created my own playlist for this. I know there is a section that stores all your songs as I have seen it on my walkman. I would suggest going somewhere that you can check this out and play with all the features for a bit in a store first such as Best where they have display units out if you can. I know Best Buy displays these sony walkman's out on dispaly. For more info check out the reviews for this on Amazon.com and Best Buy.com and you may find what you are looking for. Hope this helps. « Show Less
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You may use your own, as long as mp3 is the format saved! I, however have used the background music provided with this, so thereare no "licensing" issues of using someone else's music. I use a file converter to make their (background music) files compatible with most any editor.
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I am running Windows XP and after ripping the CD to an MP3 file, I check the 'PROPERTIES' of each song and in the Advanced tab you can check the song's name, artist and album name and its relative position in the playlist. I then transferred the folder named the same as the CD onto this SONY. During playback, you have the option of a) playing all songs by name in alphabetical order regardless of the album or artist, b) by album name or c) by artist name.
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All audio files are mp3 and they play in a loop. So your greeting if loaded in a single file will take some time to come around.
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It opens at the Music module. Selecting it takes you to the Library where you have a number of choices. I think that the ones that are most appropriate to your question are All Songs, Albums, Artists, and Genres. A song's location depends on how much data is contained with each "song file." As you would suspect, each of the preceding categories are determinants on where you can find it. The key here is what's available for the player to sort on. I have a Grand Daughter who has a couple of cds that were studio productions. When I rip them to my Music Library and transfer them to the mp3 they show up in each of these categories. On the other hand she has some songs that she has recorded on her own. When I rip those cds into my Music Library I can add some or all of the data manually so the mp3 will sort it and place it into as many of the categories as data has been included. If you know the title of the album that contains what you are looking for you can open the "Albums" selection and locate the album, select it and then select the music you are looking for. This same procedure applies to these other categories. Chances are that you will probably use the "All songs" category which lists all of the songs alphabetically by Title. This will require you to click through all of the songs until you find what you're looking for. The only short cut I know of is going through selections backwards if what you want is in the last part of the alphabet. Hope this helps. By the way, these lower end mp3 players have a reputation of limited lifetime.
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The files are not in the mp3 format that the device likes. I remember having to run all of the songs through 3 different mp3 converters before finding one that it liked. I searched through my folders to see which one I used but couldn't find it. It was a free converter I downloaded from the internet. The good news is once the files are converted and show on the system, your eclipse will be a very enjoyable device. I love mine! But it did take 3 days to get it up and running.
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You can't select tracks from a thumb drive. The songs will play in the order they are listed. You can, however, skip over a song.
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Yes. However, just like trying to tune in an FM station (which when figured out how to do, is very responsive) you have to tinker a little to pick out songs you might have saved on a flash drive.
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What format are your files in? If MP3 then there will be zero problem. I have all of my MP3's on an external hard drive as well & all of my tag info was kept intact when I imported the tracks into iTunes. If the format is WMA then iTunes will want to convert the files into a format that the iPod will play. Tags will likely remain intact but the files will be changed I believe.
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Good Afternoon, I would have to assume it does so since it says it reads MP3. Thank you.