How to forum: how to add itune music to media player

Sorry I don't know all info that is needed, newbie. Windows Media Player Version 11.0.5721.5280. "C.\Program iTunes.exe"Files\ Hope this info helps.

Well, ITunes already is a media player, so why would you want to use another one?

And with "where does it come from" I meant something like:
- I ripped it from CD's
- I bought it in Apples iTunes shop
- I bought it at amazon.com
- I downloaded it with a P2P program (which one?)
Surely you know that.

Kees

all music i have in iTunes library i bought at iTunes store. Reason i want to move music to Windows Media Player is i just added a Yamaha AV Receiver RX-V671 to TV and manual says i can play music from PC that is in Windows Media Player. I guess i just took it for granted if music was in iTunes library i bought it from iTunes.

Yamaha AV Receiver RX-V67 would be just as happy if the music was played on your PC in iTunes.
I suspect that the receiver is just looking for any audio and Yamaha decided that Windows Media Player was the only media player in the world.

Plug it in and give it a whirl

P

please tell us why. If we hear nothing we assume it works as intended.

Kees

In my previous posting i made a typo error which should have read 2006 Dell and i did state i was a newbie. With Windows Media Player i found where i could add receiver to play music from PC from that Media Player. If i delete link from Windows Player receiver shows no connection to PC. I found nothing on iTunes that i could set up that Player to link to receiver. Only thing i found on iTunes was the mention of Apple TV as far as receiver goes. Maybe i should just get some hands-on help. Thanks for the effort from Kees_B.

over the ethernet network?

What about the Audio output from the PC being directly connected to the Audio Input of the receiver/

P

Luckily, the music isn't in iTunes, and it even isn't in the iTunes library. The iTunes library is just a database, a file (2 files, in fact) with data and without any music. Details, if you are interested, in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660

The mp3's are just somewhere in a folder on your hard disk. And you can "import" them in WMP. Then WMP builds its down database, also containing only some data and not the music. The music isn't duplicated, you still have one copy of each mp3-file on your hard disk, but now it's "pointed to" by 2 databases (one from iTunes, one from WMP).
Or you could just point WMP to that folder, without caring about importing it in its library.

But you might run into the issue that the files you bought from Apple are protected (by DRM, digital right management) so that WMP won't be able to play them. That's the risk with when buying Apple stuff: it might not be compatible with other players.
So I'd try with one, before spending a lot of time to do all and only then finding out it doesn't work.

Kees

that would appear to contradict you on the location of the music tracks.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1391

Note that the OP stated that "all music i have in iTunes library i bought at iTunes store" and that music will be in the iTunes\Media or iTunes\Music folder.

So, apart from DRM issues, he can 'import' that iTunes\Media or iTunes\Music folder into WMP, like you can import any music in any folder into it.

Kees

and import those into WMP.

Still wondering why the OP can't just connect that receiver to the Audio Out port of the computer.


P

Impossible not to learn something from all the advice I have received from my post. I am connected to receiver be Ethernet. I tried to add files from iTunes to WMP but would not work. Probably the long way around but have all iTunes music on CD's so am in process of ripping to library in WMA format. Would not rip to MP3 because of protection issues. I now also understand the advice about audio In/Out. Thanks for all the input on this issue.

WMA can have protection issues. I've rarely seen a MP3 protection issue.

And no one I know rips with WMP since it can lock files to the PC. Here's an article about that.
" Copy protection is only available when you rip music to a Windows Media Audio (WMA) format. For information about turning copy protection on or off, see Change settings for ripping music."
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-settings-for-ripping-music

"Copy protect music. Select this option if you want ripped files to be protected with media usage rights."

I would have gone with MP3.
Bob