Posted by Sue Ridge on 09/10/07 05:14

<DiscDawg@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1189385823.513328.259960@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all.
> I recently got a iPod.. I know, I am way behind but...
> I have most of my mp3's on my work machine and use Winamp to rip and
> play.
> I have iTunes on my home machine, so I can surf the iTunes store and
> purchase - subscribe and still stay productive at work.
> What is happening is when I dump some tunes from my winamp machine to
> the iPod, I can listen to them and all is good, untill I sync with
> iTunes. It removes the songs that winamp had put on.
> I have tried unchecking the auto sync function, but it still kicks the
> files out.
>
> Short of killing myself, or not using iTunes, what will make this work?
>

winamp puts them on as MP3 I assume.

iTunes 7 reads, writes, and converts MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4, AAC, and Apple
Lossless into its own format which I think is called m4p.

I assume when using itunes, it sees the mp3 as non native and wipes it off.

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