Most of my music has been ripped to mp3s from my old cds via Win Media Player and copied to my sansa. Now I use Itunes and I see it has gotten imported to itunes and that works well when listening on the pc too. I still see the original folder my ripped mp3s reside too. Under itunes its mp4 format and under the original ripped folder its mp3. Anyway, when I pull the mp3 (ripped from my cds) to my sansa they show up fine...I can see artist, song name, album etc.

I got an itunes gift card and downloaded some songs. I can see these under itunes too and it appears to copy then to the sansa but I never see them on the sansa after I disconnect the sansa from the usb port. From what I picked up here its because itunes delivers the good in some sort of propietary format (mp4?) that can only be seen by an Ipod....? Well I am not about to go by a $200 Ipod when my handmedown $30 sansa holds about as many songs!

I used the Itunes option to burn my songs to a cd; as reccomended here. I DID check to include the cd text. I then used Win Media player to rip them back to my desktop in mp3 format. However I now see the songs on the desktop but no names just track1...track2 etc etc. Now I find out that apple does not actually store the titles with the music but rather finds the info each time you view the song online...? Boy does this sound like a scam!

Next I right clicked track1 on the desktop and changed the name to that of the song. I repeated this for each song and I again dragged the tracks to the sansa...IT STILL SAYS TRACK1...TRACK2 etc etc on the sansa...ie it did not recognize the track names I changed....at least it got to the sansa htis time!

Is there some way to get my downloaded itunes onto my sansa with artist/album etc etc. In the future I will buy from amazon but I'd think there is a way to do this...no?