wilkes

The higher the bitrate the better quality. 128 bitrate is a standard, people say it's almost cd quality. I lean towards 320 bitrate

Check out MediaMonkey at http://www.mediamonkey.com/


It's free, has much better music management than iTunes, and syncs flawlessly with ALL ipods.

They do have a paid version, but if you are asking how to rip CD's to the ipod, then the free version will do everything you want and then some.

If you want an EASY way to just rip CD's to mp3, then take a look at audiograbber - it can rip multiple CD's at once (if you have more than one cd drive anyway), automatically looks up and tags the files, stores them neatly, and yest, its free to. - http://download.cnet.com/Au...16038.html

Rip the songs you want into an mp3, load them into your ipod

I have an ipod shuffle, how do I download music from a cd onto it.