My turn to ask for help!

Got PID, 32gb micro SD, Windows 8 PC and the latest version of iTunes.

How do I get my iTunes purchases onto the sd card so that I can then play directly from the PID?

Any help, relevant links would be appreciated.

I can see how to drag and drop my mp3s from My Music files to the sd but not how I can get at my iTunes purchases.

Ta.

My turn to ask for help!

Got PID, 32gb micro SD, Windows 8 PC and the latest version of iTunes.

How do I get my iTunes purchases onto the sd card so that I can then play directly from the PID?

Any help, relevant links would be appreciated.

I can see how to drag and drop my mp3s from My Music files to the sd but not how I can get at my iTunes purchases.

Ta.

you cant move itunes purchases to a card, only another apple device.

you can only move pirate mp3 or bought ones. Ipad are protected with m4a

you cant move itunes purchases to a card, only another apple device.

you can only move pirate mp3 or bought ones. Ipad are protected with m4a

@ Miggymoose. I see where you are coming from but my experience has been a bit different. I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 phone and the 'Kies' software from Samsung auto-synced my itunes library onto the SD card of my phone (puts then into a folder called 'media'). Since the phone software can play .aac files I can listen to my itunes files on my phone. I think what is more important is that the PID can support the .aac file extension and that you have the correct software for syncing the files to the SD card of your device. The 'Kies' software is freely available on the web but you do need a Samsung smartphone for it to work.

Not sure if this helps the OP but it may point in the appropriate direction for a solution.

Regards,

Paul

Just found this thread

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/270414-can-itunes-content-be-downloaded-to-the-sd-card-for-columbus/

Wonder why the search function didn't ?

That other thread is getting a little enthusiastic, with the various methods to convert all iTunes purchases format to mp3! Maybe they should pop over to some of the digital music forums and get stuck in an argument about lossy conversion.

Anyway, the PID will play most iTunes purchases (with .m4a at the end) just fine, but any older purchases (with .m4p at the end) will only play on iDevices. You can 'upgrade' those purchases by subscribing to iTunes In The Cloud for about eleventy million dollars, or something like that.

You can get the iTunes purchases from iTunes folder (usually C:\Users\username\My Music\iTunes\) and just drag-and-drop to the PID like the mp3 files. I don't know if you can do it from inside iTunes - it tends to be fussy.

The downside is that the PID doesn't seem to read the tags properly for iTunes purchases, so you don't get all the proper formatting of the track, album, artist and cover art. Although that's probably not terribly important, depending on what you're doing with the thing at any point in time.

I too have no problem playing the iTunes .m4a audio but can confirm that the info/tags are not shown correctly.

Just drag and drop from iTunes folder to NAVIGONSD drive.

I must have been having a brain fart or something, I tried again when I got home from work and it worked a treat. Thanks for the help everyone.