Need techie help

[FloridaJudy]

Is there an easy way to transfer music from iTunes to a Zen player? Apple infuriatingly seems to deliberately make it damned near impossible to burn to anything other than a real iPod, and I don't have that kind of cash. The last time I did this, I wound up having to burn the damned music to CD's, and then rip them to Windows media before transferring them, and all the song and album titles got lost in the process.

Does anyone else think it's rather unethical to make it overly complicated to play music on anything other than their own product? I swear this is why some people figure it's okay to pirate media. Try to screw me? I'll return the favor.

[Solon]

1. You will have to burn it and re-rip it...

Or possibly use a DRM stripper for iTunes music, and then re-encode it for the Zune.

What format is it in?

[Duer 157099]

2. I know this won't help at the moment, but

I refused to use iTunes and instead purchase any music I get from Amazon, which provides actual mp3s (imagine that! regular old vanilla flavored mp3s with no strings attached!).

I can't stand any of that proprietary crap, which is why I use generic mp3 players (no iPod for me, thanks)

So much easier, imho.

[democracyindanger]

3. Depends.

If you want to rip music you bought on iTunes, most likely the tracks are encoded in the m4a format which screws you. If the tracks were ones that you ripped from CDs and you selected saving them as mp3s, i'd think you could just drag the tracks from wherever your iTunes library is into the appropriate folder on the Zen player.