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Here is the deal. I am going to Egypt in about 2 weeks to visit my wife and I had downloaded a lot of lectures/speeches for my mother in-law in her native tongue. It is about 15.7GB. I was going to just buy an ipod and put them all on them but all these lectures are in folders and all organized and organizing them into playlists in itunes is so annoying and time consuming...
1. Is there any program compatible with an Ipod that you can just add folders and folders to the library and it will automatically put them on the Ipod under the folders names [i.e make it a playlist]?
2. If not, I noticed if the files in a folder are already in an album then I can just copy paste all the files in a specific album into a playlist. How do I make album for audio files? Say I have 10 files in a folder. How do I make an album for them so when I upload that folder to itunes it will have its own album?
2a. I noticed you can import playlists. Is there a way [in windows] or with some program i can make a playlist for each folder and then I can just import these playlists one at a time?
3. I don't want to get some creative zen or something not known in Egypt. One thing I know she would like is if the mp3 player is a known and respected name like Apple Ipod/Sony/Microsoft/Samsung. I don't know anything about the sony & Microsoft mp3 players. Can you just copy paste files easy on the ipod like its a storage drive or just add files to it very easily with whatever program it comes with, without having to make them into playlists. I am asking about sony/Microsoft cause they don't know creative and ztunes or whatever and its kinda 'cheap' to them.
Thank you for your help 
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I do have an iPod myself and although I might not use it to its fullest potential, I do think that iTunes does the folder-stuff automatically.
I can list all my songs (without having them ever organized on my iPod myself) in an album view or alike.
Can't you create folders manually with iTunes? Sorry, I'm at work currently and can't check it, when I get back I'll try to have a look on it.
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Yes, you can but you have to make the folder and then copy the files from an album or from the library into them. It is annoying.
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Ah now I get what you want. You want that to happen automatically? Man, I have no clue how to do that lol
I just do it the same way you just described. It might be a pain in the ass, but seems like I have to live with it :/
Maybe someone else has a better grasp on this and can help you. I'm rather new to my iPod anyways. Sorry, mate.
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I firgured out the album and playlist stuff. Just a lot of copy and paste...
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"Can you just copy paste files easy on the ipod like its a storage drive"
I beleive you can just simply set your iPod up to hard drive mode, then plug it into your computer and drag and drop all the files you want onto the iPod that way. However, this means they won't actually show up on the iPod itself so you won't be able to listen to them through any of its menus. So it's just acting as a storage device.
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I know it can act as a hard-drive. I guess its too bad you can't just copy paste and then it will play those files 
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On December 05 2008 21:06 Yaqoob wrote:I know it can act as a hard-drive. I guess its too bad you can't just copy paste and then it will play those files
1.dunno. But.. yaqoob as long as your file is already mp3 or mp4a. Managing in iTunes isn't too difficult.
2.dunno.
3. Yes and for only some ipods; you can do this with some programs. quite tricky to set up though and not worth it in your cases.
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