When you get an iPod, there are two things you need to know how to do before you can really have fun and enjoy the iPod to the maximum. These two things (in no particular order are) getting/downloading music and then transferring said music to your iPod for your listening pleasure.
Take heart in the fact that neither of these tasks is complicated or hard whatsoever and after a while will become second nature once you begin to do it more and more. In the interests of teaching you how to do both in an easy-to-understand and enlightening environment, we’ve put together this article for you because, well, we’re just cool and nice like that. Are you ready to get started?
Although there are ways to download music to iPod directly, we’re going to teach you how to download music to your computer and then transfer music to iPod (which is the second thing we’re going to teach you later on). First up, forget about how to download music to iPod although, technically, that’s what you’re going to be doing with both of the steps combined. Whatever – first, you need to know how to download music to your computer for later transfer music to iPod.
You can download music to your computer via torrents, peer to peer download services or membership groups. We’re not going to go into too much depth other than to say that torrents and membership groups such as hot-mp3download.com are definitely the way to go if you want to download lots of different music quickly. Out of the two (torrents and membership sites) we definitely say go with membership sites. But torrents are equally as good if a bit inferior to sites such as hot-mp3download.com.
If “transfer music to iPod” sounds complex or difficult, have no fear, because it’s not. Once you obtain all of the music on your computer via torrents or the membership site listed above, all you need to do is acquire a transfer cable (usually some variant of a USB transfer cable), hook it up to your iPod and computer and initiate the transfer.
The most important thing to remember when you transfer music to iPod is that the more you pay for the transfer cable, the faster you’re going to be able to actually transfer the music. So although you can get by with a normal, run-of-the-mill $15 - $20 transfer cable, if you’re planning on transferring whole volumes and catalogs of music, you might want to splurge on a slightly more expensive, higher-quality transfer cable. Trust us, it will make the whole transfer music to iPod process go a lot more smoothly and perhaps most importantly, more quickly.
If you just want to transfer music to iPod in small file sizes or just a few songs/CD’s at a time, then a default, $15 - $20 transfer cable will do just fine, so don’t fret.
Regardless, though, good luck in all of your transfer music to iPod adventures!