Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2006

Greetings,

My kids have iTunes and have been amassing songs in preparation for the
eventual iPod purchase, which finally happened today. We also have a
large amount of MP3 songs in our iTunes library from ripped CDs. I set
iTunes for manual management of music and transferred about 60 songs,
half protected AAC files and the other half MP3 to the iPod. The MP3s
play fine. The protected files flash the album art for a second or two
and then move directly to the next song.

Any idea why this would be happening? We did transfer our iTunes from
our old computer to a new one, deauthorizing and reauthorizing in the
process. My daughter has burned a few CDs, though, and I thought maybe
we'd exceeded our allowable count, but I tried it with a newly
purchased iTMS song that hasn't yet been burned or even played, and it
won't play on the Nano either. (BTW, where can one find the remaining
'allowed use' count? I can't seem to find it anywhere in iTunes.)

The only other thing I can think of is, we did have a Shuffle last
year, but moved all the songs that were on it back to iTunes several
months ago, and most of these new iTMS songs (that won't play on the
Nano) were purchased after we dearmed the Shuffle anyway.

Sorry if I'm missed something obvious in a FAQ somewhere but I have
tried searching and it seems most people have trouble with MP3s playing
on their iPods, not iTMSs. :/

Thanks,
Jacy