Converting iTunes to Windows/DOS format?

Dinarius · 01-05-2015 03:32PM #1

I have a music player that will allow me to play my iTunes music via a USB connection (memory stick) but it will only play songs in Windows/DOS format.

How do I convert the songs to Windows/DOS?

I'm Windows 8

Thanks.

D.

Ps. Is MP3 different to Windows/DOS?

Zcott · 01-05-2015 04:38PM

Dinarius wrote: »

I have a music player that will allow me to play my iTunes music via a USB connection (memory stick) but it will only play songs in Windows/DOS format.

How do I convert the songs to Windows/DOS?

I'm Windows 8

Thanks.

D.

Ps. Is MP3 different to Windows/DOS?

I think that it just means the USB stick has to be Windows format. Open Disk Utility and format it as NTFS and you should be grand.

The file formats are completely independent of Windows or OSX.

Tom Dunne · 04-05-2015 02:01PM

Dinarius wrote: »

I have a music player that will allow me to play my iTunes music via a USB connection (memory stick) but it will only play songs in Windows/DOS format.

How do I convert the songs to Windows/DOS?

I'm Windows 8

Thanks.

D.

Ps. Is MP3 different to Windows/DOS?

I think you are mixing up your terminology.

The Windows/DOS thing is most likely what Zcott mentions - the filesystem on the USB drive needs to be in Windows format (i.e. formatted on a Windows machine, such as you have, Windows 8). Once the USB drive is formatted, you can then copy your music onto it.

The song format however, is probably irrelevant. There is a Windows Audio File format (ending in .wav), but I would highly doubt you need all your music in that format.

MP3 is a song format, these songs are stored on the USB drive. Usually, your filenames will end in .mp3. So yes, it is totally different in every way to Windows/DOS format.

Dinarius · 04-05-2015 02:13PM

Thanks for the replies.

In the end, only FAT32 worked, not FAT, nor NTFS.

D.

Converting iTunes to Windows/DOS format?

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