[Caractacus Potts]

I am leaving for Asia tomorrow and I hope the RVF community can help me.

I want to load the audio from a Bob Proctor seminar on You Tube to an old iPod Nano that I have. My computer shows that I have 5.37GB free on the iPod. Is that enough to load about 11 hours of audio?

The videos are here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeNtC3xZ...2fyF4qCfZB

I have looked at a few videos online but they either involve loading to iTunes or loading it to my phone. I am already getting warnings that since I have not set up my cloud storage I am running out of room on my phone. (I need to delete a lot of old pics and videos as well as apps I don't use).

I am using a new laptop and don't have iTunes loaded. The truth is my ex loaded some stuff on the old ipod for me. I have never bought/loaded music from them onto my ipod and I don't know what my pass word is.
Can anyone help?

THanks.

CP

[Corollary]

You should have more than enough space. I used http://convert2mp3.net/ to covert the first video to MP3, and the 50 minute video ended up being around 45MB. Extrapolate that to 11 hours, and it's about half a gigabyte.

[Caractacus Potts]

(04-23-2017 07:27 PM)Corollary Wrote:  

You should have more than enough space. I used http://convert2mp3.net/ to covert the first video to MP3, and the 50 minute video ended up being around 45MB. Extrapolate that to 11 hours, and it's about half a gigabyte.

Thanks for the quick response. When I plug the ipod into my laptop I am not seeing any of the music or videos that the ex loaded onto it. I see a couple of pics I took and a few test videos but that is it.

It shows the following folders:
1. Calendars
2. Contacts
3, DCIM
4. Notes
5. Recordings

Like I said above, the pics I took are in these folders but none of the music shows up when I click on them.

So does that link download it to my laptop and then I just copy and paste them to the recordings folder?

[Caractacus Potts]

I just got this notice:
An error occurred:
Unfortunately, this video is longer than 90 minutes, so we can not convert it. But you can download it as an MP4, M4A or AAC file.

Will all of those files play on an old ipod nano?

[Corollary]

It's been a long time since I've used an iPod (I have Apple Music), so I don't know which folder the music should go in. Try both DCIM and recordings.

AAC should be compatible with iPods. I believe it was the original format for music in the iTunes store.

[Caractacus Potts]

(04-23-2017 07:53 PM)Corollary Wrote:  

It's been a long time since I've used an iPod (I have Apple Music), so I don't know which folder the music should go in. Try both DCIM and recordings.

AAC should be compatible with iPods. I believe it was the original format for music in the iTunes store.

I just repped you for the quick reply. The AAC files downloaded and saved to my laptop. When I try to load them to the iPod I run into trouble.

I have saved them to the Recordings folder, the DCIM folder and the Contacts folder. I cannot find them anywhere on the iPod when I disconnect it from my laptop.

I even tried the built in search function on the iPod. I tried loading it to the contacts folder because there is nothing else in there. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks.

[Corollary]

Check out this article here: http://lifehacker.com/329507/the-20-best-ipod-utilities

Back in the day, I sometimes had to use a separate program to transfer files to my iPod because iTunes sucked (and still does).

[weambulance]

I used to use mediamonkey to load crap on my Apple devices, if that's useful.

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

I haven't done it in a long time so I'm fuzzy on the details but I know I wasn't using any kind of sync function. I just selected the files by navigating to them in mediamonkey, then either right clicked on the files and selected "send to iphone/ipod" or dragged them to the iphone/ipod "drive" in the navigation window.

Last time I tried loading files manually by putting them into the file system of an apple device it didn't work for shit.

[Il Bersagliere]

Convert it to mp3, then sync it to your library using a program called Syncios.

[DJ-Matt]

4K video downloader to pull it from YouTube and iTunes or CopyTrans music to copy the m4a files to the iPod. The downloader program should be able to download the raw MP4 audio track from the videos so it won't degrade the quality. Also YouTube audio is about 100 Kbps VBR so you're looking at 1 MB data per minute so you have 5,370 minutes free.

[Caractacus Potts]

Okay, I am getting aggravated. I have tried numerous ways to add these audio files to the ipod and it is not working.

I have tried highlighting all of the files and pasting them into a new playlist. Nope.

I tried creating a new folder and pasting them. Nope.

I moved all of the files to my desktop and then tried to drag and drop. Nope.

I am running out of ideas. The screwed up thing is I know they are on the ipod but do not show up. When I plug the ipod into my laptop I cannot see any of the iTunes music or videos that are on it except for a few short videos that I took. But I can see the You Tube videos are there and I saw the ipod synching while plugged into the computer.

But when I look at the device itself I don't see the audio files from You Tube anywhere! I have looked up via artist, album and song. I even tried the built in search function on the ipod. Nothing.

It's like my computer is not reading the iTunes and the ipod is not reading what the pc shows. But what is weird is like I said the ipod shows that it is synching when I was apparently transferring the files and now I have less space on the ipod than when I started. So where the heck are the files going!!!

Any ideas?

CP

[debeguiled]

Just buy enough stock to become the major share holder at Apple, and ask the president of the company how to do it.

[Caractacus Potts]

(04-24-2017 11:15 AM)debeguiled Wrote:  

Just buy enough stock to become the major share holder at Apple, and ask the president of the company how to do it.

[debeguiled]

(04-24-2017 11:34 AM)Caractacus Potts Wrote:  

(04-24-2017 11:15 AM)debeguiled Wrote:  

Just buy enough stock to become the major share holder at Apple, and ask the president of the company how to do it.

[Caractacus Potts]

Success!!!

I will post on here later how I did it. Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions.

Except debeguiled.

[Caractacus Potts]

This is what I did:

1. I used http://convert2mp3.net/ to convert the videos to MP3. h/t to Corollary
2. After they converted I downloaded them to my laptop.
3. I moved them to my desktop.
4. I went into iTunes and clicked on File>New>Playlist. That created the list I moved the audio files to.
5. I clicked on File again and scrolled down and selected Library and then Import Playlist.
File>Library>Import Playlist. That opened a Window to my laptop.
6. I then highlighted the files I wanted and dragged them over to the newly created Playlist.
7. From there I had to drag and drop them to my ipod icon. I could not add it to any of the preexisting files like Music, Videos, etc.
8. They show up in the ipod menu under recently added.

I was not able to port over the first video. It was over 90 minutes so it would not convert to an mp3 file but rather an aac file. Apparently the ipod couldn't recognize it.

I hope somebody else is able to use this to breathe life into an old ipod.

CP