Itunes Won’t Transfer

I recently got a free MP3 player from work. I am not sure what brand it is and being free, who cares what brand it is. So, I tried to load some music on it. I was able to get my tracks from Windows Media player to load but I couldn’t get anything from Itunes to transfer. I figured I must be missing something so I looked around on the net to see if I was missing a step when I was trying to put my playlist on my MP3 player.

As it turns out, I am missing something, an IPOD. Itunes protects their music so that it can’t be transferred to just any old MP3 player without a hassle. An IPOD will easily take music from Itunes but it is a bit more complicated if you don’t have an IPOD. Seems I will either have to burn a bunch of cds and put the music into Windows Media Player or I can use a virtual cd burner and do it that way.

It just irritates me that I have been using Itunes for years and have bought quite a bit of music that I can’t put onto my MP3 player. I know they just want everybody to run out and purchase an IPOD. I am more inclined to just stop using Itunes and use a service that will allow me to easily transfer tracks onto any device I please. That only seems fair.