Hi Jessica, Did you check the format of any of your ripped tracks in iTunes before transferring them to the Sansa Clip Zip? Select one of these tracks in your iTunes library, press Command-I to "Get Info", and navigate to the "General Tab". The track should be identified with information like "Kind", "Size", "Bit rate", and "Sample Rate". So my mp3 files will have "Kind: MPEG audio file", while my AAC files may have "Kind: AAC audio file" or "Purchased AAC audio file". Do these files show Kind to be "AIFF"? Alternatively, if you don't use Command+I, you can press Command+Shift+R once you've selected a track, and display that track in Finder. Mp3 files will have a ".mp3" extension, AAC files may have a ".m4a" extension, and AIFF files should have a ".aiff" file extension.
If you want to change the format of the file used when you rips your CDs, bring up your preferences menu in iTunes with Command+comma, navigate to the "General" tab (which should show up by default, or else you can press Command+1 to go to the "General" tab). Then navigate to the section for "When you insert a CD:" and navigate to the second pop up menu button, which is for "Import Settings". VO +space on this button, then on the "Import Settings" window, VO+Space on the pop up menu button following "Import using:" and select the format you want (e.g. "AAC encoder", "AIFF encoder", "Apple Lossless encoder", "MP3 encoder", "WAV encoder") You can also choose the quality setting in the next pop up button. Then choose the "OK" button to leave the "Import Settings" window and choose the "OK" button to leave the General preferences tab and close your preferences window. By the way, I looked up the Sansa Clip Zip specs, and it states: "Compatible with a Variety of Formats The Sansa Clip Zip MP3 Player is compatible with a wide range of audio formats, including MP3, WMA, secure WMA, AAC (for playing back DRM- free iTunes music), Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and Audible. You'll be able to enjoy music in crisp fidelity without having to compress or convert your files". Normally, the default setting for iTunes is to import to AAC, which should also work for the Sansa Clip Zip. HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 16, 1:32 pm, Jessica Moss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've converted I don't know how many CD's into Itunes, then loaded them on to > Hannah's Sansa Clip Zip, only for them to not play, thinking they were in mp3 > format, sense it was set to that by default. > However, when I got ready to play the file on the clip-zip, it read it as > an aiff file, and refuses to play it. Does anyone have any idea why this is > going on? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
