Well, as part of my midlife crisis, and determination to move with the times, I’ve bought an iPod Nano.
Disc installed. iTunes seems to be working. My first plan is to get music from CDs onto the iPod.
Have read and re-read the instructions. Why is it that the computer is only importing the first 12 or 13 seconds of each track? How do I make it import the entire track?
Presumably it’s an easy “just click this” sort of thing, but it’s beyond me.
Thanks.
sorry i have no idea
so i might as well have not responded at all but i did
must be really really bored
are you sure you disconnect the ipod on itunes, before disconnecting it from your computer?
in itunes, when you’re on your ipod, in the lower right hand corner there should be a picture of the ipod. hover over it and it says something like disconnect ipod. click it. then disconnect it physically, after that.
of course, I only have experience with an ipod mini, but I assume it works the same.
If you have nothing to add to the discussion it’s best not to post at all, otherwise peope will soon find you annoying.
As for the actual question I have no reason why it would only be importing the beginning of the songs. Does it do that with all your CDs, maybe it’s one of those crazy can’t copy to a computer CDs.
Otherwise check the preferences, maybe for some crazy reason it’s set to import intros only.
try ripping all of your music to media player, and that converting it…it’ll take a lot longer, but I have all my music on media player, and the converting process worked fine…I looked through my iTunes preferences, but I couldnt find anything related to your problem. Sorry I couldn’t help much
Are you on a Windows machine?
Is that all that’s being imported into iTunes, or is it the transfer to the iPod that is the source of the trouble?
If you’re on Windows, check for iTunes updates. Sometimes Windows updates don’t get along with competing products; Apple usually has the fix out within a week or two.
You’ve probably already been through this, but here’s what I have on iTunes on my Mac:
Under Preferences, Advanced, Importing:
Import Using: my setting is “Import Songs and Eject” (handy when doing batches of CDs)
Import Using: “MP3 Encoder” (this choice shouldn’t matter in relation to your problems, but I choose that to keep my music in a non rights-limited format
Setting: “Higher Quality (192 kbps)”
“Play songs while importing” not checked
“Create file names with track number” checked
“Use error correction…” checked
I’m sure you are also aware that your iPod has nothing to do with the importing and ripping of your CDs. All of that, and managing your playlists and other sound file organization all take place in iTunes. So the problem must be there.
In your current situation, it must take only 30 seconds or so to import a whole CD. Normally for me it takes about a minute per song (when it does the whole song).
There are online forums where people ask tons of questions about iTunes and iPod. If none of this works you should be able to find this problem and solution with some Google searching.
and give you bad rep, oops, bad rep for me,
not but seriously that is weird and i have never had that problem so sorry i can’t help you
shamelessly bows head waiting for bad rep
Are you there’s not an option somewhere that you’re selecting by accident to only upload previews of the songs? I don’t own an iPod so I’m not sure if that can be done or not.
As a side note - midlife crisis?? Dang, this whole time I thought you were only 17 or 18.
i used a program that came with some hardware i bought at some point and ripped my cds to the hdd, then loaded them to my ipod. are you trying to do this all at once? or is it a two separate step process?
you shouldn’t reply to a post saying that this post is pointless, because it makes all posts following it, including this one i am writing right now, even more pointless.
Bump. :0(
itunes is what i used at first. i payed maybe 30 bukcs in songs before realizing i hated losing the money. itunes=1 dollar a song. www.bearshare.com is totally free and user friendly. no real instructions to read, just download then transfer to an itunes library and youre good to go man.
are they burned Cd’s or are they the original? I know that sometimes if you try to burn an original cd onto itunes it violates a copy right, so you would have to burn a copy of that cd then put it on itunes.
this comes from Dave Matthews Band website:
If you have a PC place the CD into your computer and allow the CD to automatically start. If the CD does not automatically start, open your Windows Explorer, locate the drive letter for your CD drive and double-click on the LaunchCD.exe file located on your CD.
Once the application has been launched and the End User License Agreement has been accepted, you can click the Copy Songs button on the top menu.
Follow the instructions to copy the secure Windows Media Files (WMA) to your PC. Make a note of where you are copying the songs to, you will need to get to these secure Windows Media Files in the next steps.
Once the WMA files are on your PC you can open and listen to the songs with Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher. You may also play them in any compatible player that can play secure Windows Media files, such as MusicMatch, RealPlayer, and Winamp, but it will require that you obtain a license to do so. To obtain this license, from the Welcome Screen of the user interface, click on the link below the album art that says If your music does not play in your preferred player, click here. Follow the instructions to download the alternate license.
Using Windows Media Player only, you can then burn the songs to a CD. Please note that in order to burn the files, you need to upgrade to or already have Windows Media Player 9 or greater.
Once the CD has been burned, place the copied CD back into your computer and open iTunes. iTunes can now rip the songs as you would a normal CD.
Thanks to all of you who answered with helpful advice.
Unfortunately, no luck. I literally checked every single option on every single drop down menu, hovered over every button to see what came up… I went to Apple’s website, logged into their user forum and posted the same question, went to two shops for advice… uninstalled and reinstalled the software twice. In the end, I had reached a stage where it was only importing the first 1 or 2 seconds of each song!
My computer is around 1 year old, fairly good spec., running Windows XP, and with very few add ons, and an uncluttered hard drive, so there should be little for the software to conflict with. The CD ROM works - I used it to install the software - and the CDs work - I can play them or copy them onto the computer in other formats.
If it’s that much trouble to get iTunes to work, I can’t be bothered. If I want music on the move, I’ll whistle.
I took the iPod back to the shop and got a refund.
Hope this is helpful
I got a creative zen and had no problems with it, I know a couple of people who’ve had problems with the ipods - nano, especially, jumping intros or just playing parts of songs, and they taken them back to the dealers who’ve exchanged them, so it might be a problem with the unit itself, I don’t know if that helps, but yours doesn’t seem to be the only one with that sorta problem. 
On the advice of a teenage friend, I went out this afternoon and bought a Sony NWA1000. Similar sort of thing, bit cheaper, more solid, more capacity. It had exactly the same problem, but the screen gave a little more information, suggesting that there was a CD reading error.
As I know the CD ROm reads, and can copy to the hard drive in Media, I made the effort, downloaded an MP3 writer and now I have owrked out how to get tracks onto the MP3 player. 3 albums dones so far: 2 Motorhead and one Spunge. Meteors and Bob Marley to follow.
Hope you didn’t make a bit fuss about the iPod not working when you took it back then. That would have been a bit embarrassing. 
Cathy
Of course I didn’t. It wasn’t the poor shop assistant’s fault. Why make a fuss? If they’d been rude or obstructive they would have been fair game. However, basic rule of complaining is that you should do so “more in sorrow than in anger”. Apart from good manners, it’s good tactics. Look what happened to the Saxons at Hastings when they charged down from the high ground too soon.
im tellin ya, bearshare is the real deal. just try it.