XPlay and Windows Media player

Well XPlay surely works with the new 3rd Gen. iPods... And I do use WMP to sync up my pod. I had no problems so far... Maybe you should try to re-install XPlay or something. And the fact that its a trial shouldn't be the reason, since im still in the trial period as well...

presumably you guys have a plug-in to have WMP rip to MP3? If so, which one do you recommend? If not, what do you do?

I'd like to use WMP to rip the CD's. Right now I'm using FreeRip or something like that, but prefer WMP (believe it or not).

I am using the Intervideo one. It works fine but does cost $10. I was able to copy all of my cd's with no problems.

Yes you are right. I have downloaded the demo of Xplay 1.1.3 pre release 2 from their website and am adding all my files to my iPod by using the copy to removable device function in Media Player. So far it seems to transfer faster than Music Match, and is not nearly as annoying. You can get the demo from their forums. X Play Forums (http://forums.mediafour.com/showthread.php?threadid=2722) Be sure you select the Xplay Music folder as the destination for Media Player to copy to. Otherwise all your songs might end up in your contacts like mine did the first time I tried it.

No Problem, but I've just realized I was wrong again. The iPod will show up twice in Media Player, once as a hard drive, and once as a portable device. You want to pick the portable device to copy to. Here's the info straight from the XPlay help file.

"The heart of the reason that it shows up twice is that Windows Media Player makes all removable media available as Portable Devices.



For this reason, your iPod shows up once, referred to by its name, followed by its drive letter (i.e. XPlay iPod (G:)) If you send your music to this particular Portable Device, it will be successfully transferred to your iPod hard drive. The problem is that it will be transferred to the hard drive as a simple file, rather than being treated like a song and placed in the XPlay music folder, as it should be. If you do this, you'll find that the songs seem to transfer well, but that they will then be inaccessible when you use your iPod as a portable music player, away from your computer.



Your iPod shows up again, this time, as a true portable music player, and referred to by its name, followed by "Apple iPod" (i.e. XPlay iPod (Apple iPod)). If you send your music to this portable device, Windows Media Player will do as you most likely intend, and transfer the music in such as way that it is accessible when you use your iPod as a portable music player, away from your computer."

Why complicate things? I have a mac iPod that I am using on a Dell laptop running the XPlay pre-release version. To keep it real simple, I create, modify, add and delete playlists via the XPlay GUI directly, and it works smoooooothly.

sweet...thanks for the heads up...i just checked their site and your right...version 1.1 is now final and available for download.

http://www.mediafour.com/products/xplay/

As far as I know, you have only two options. I may be wrong so please research this.

In terms of Audible content, you should do one of the following:

-On a windows iPod, use AudibleManager found at www.audible.com/software

or

download your Audible content in MP3 format. Then you dont have to worry about anything.

I personally do not use media player for iPod synching. Can someone else help with this?

kevin

I don't believe the Xplay support Audible yet. AMG can set me straight on that one.

Do remember though that Xplay has sync feature that can be used outside of WMP. It's much faster than going through WMP, and you can select to sync w/WMP Playlists/Auto Smartlists which is very cool.

Adam

I am trying to use xplay through WMP to transfer songs, but it only recognises ipod as a regular file device, not a music device. I read the "help" part about clicking on the "Ipod apple" not just "Ipod" icon, but I don't have Ipod showing up as two devices. Only one. Someone earlier asked about this but there was never an answer. How do I get it to show up as a music device? I can't find these music files anywhere on my ipod. I looked in contacts and everything. It looks like this would work great for me if I could only get it to recognise ipod as a music device. I'm about to blow a gasket waiting for MMJB to transfer files. Takes forever. What is a "digitally enhanced temporary file" anyway, and why does MMJB have to convert my songs into this before transferring to my Ipod?

I am using version 9 of wmp. My ipod does show up, just not as a device to send music to. My files transfer, just not as music files. I can't find them on my ipod anywhere. I have been talking to someone on the mediafour forum and she suggested that I uninstal the apple software, the ipod driver and some other driver. She states : "In disk drives look for any SBP2 devices and uninstall them, in "IEEE1394 Host Controllers", uninstall everything. Leave your Ipod connected and restart your computer." I did this and nothing worked right after that. I could not even get onto the internet. I attempted a system restore, but my computer just kept getting hung up. So I just had to hold down the power on button until my computer turned off. I started it again and things seem ok now. I don't know if the System Restore worked or what. I need to check and see if these drivers are back on. My MMJB does not recognise the Ipod. Xplay still only recognises Ipod as another removable disk drive, not a music player. I'm stumped. I guess I'll just have to suffer with MMJB if I can get it to recognise my Ipod. Maybe I'll reinstall the Ipod software... for the umpteenth time! I'm beginning to regret my Ipod purchase.
Alice

OK, I just removed MMJB from my computer and went ahead and bought Xplay, loaded it on and so far things are going swimmingly. I downloaded an album to my Ipod quickly and without any problems. Well, not exactly true... now I've discovered that I already had some of the songs already on there, and at first glance I can't tell how to delete them (is this the same as "scrubbing" a song? I saw this mentioned somewhere). By the way, I am using Windows Mediaplayer and downloading through Xplay to my Ipod. Any help out there?

OK, it tells in 'Explore iPod' that all my music is there, but when I look on my iPod it doesn't show up! Help?