Buying Ipod question

I am looking at buying an ipod touch and have heard that you can only transfer songs to the ipod that you have bought. Is this true or false?.

I have lots of music that I ripped from my CD collection on my external drives and listen to them on itunes with no issues. So I can only imagine that I have been told wrong?.

I do not mind paying for music on the itunes store, but would really like to put my already existing collection on there as well.

I have an iPod Classic, and I have no problem putting the MP3s I have ripped from my CDs on it.

That is blatantly false.

Just to be totally clear, what Bob means is that what neonmac heard is blatantly false, not what Chef_eam said.

I don't know who spreads all this BS about Apple products, its kind of ridiculous.

chas_m said:

Just to be totally clear, what Bob means is that what neonmac heard is blatantly false, not what Chef_eam said.

I don't know who spreads all this BS about Apple products, its kind of ridiculous.

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What he said...

You can't load ogg or flac files on them, at least not natively, but pretty much anything that will play in iTunes without a plug in, can be moved to your iPod.

Thanks for the clarification on this.

I was actually told by ipod users that you can only put music you have bought from itunes store on to the ipod. It did not seem right, so I thought I would ask.

How odd. Well, now you can tell those iPod users they are wrong.

I have video, music and audio books from my own CDs, iTunes, Amazon, Magnatune, Audible, Gutenberg, and many others.