mp3 players Compatible with Macbook Pro

Itunes will only sycn with Apple devices.

You can copy itunes music to other players ( if they support AAC format) but not via an itunes sync. You would ahve to follow the instructions that come with the player. If the player is not compatible with Mac, then you will not be able to copy music it to it using your Mac.

joycenbruce wrote:

If I don't sync the ipod with Itunes and just download the mp3 files to my mac, will I then be able to transfer those files to any mp3 player?

iTunes is a music organizer and store, it can handle a lot of different formatted music.

However the music sold in the iTunes store comes as AAC, which a lot of third party devices don't quite all support yet.

If your music is ripped into MP3 format using iTunes, you can do what you want, provided the portable player your going to use has software that can run on Mac and interface with the external hardware device.

iTunes is necessary because it has software in it to make the music play on various iPods with their different processors, transfering the file into the format that the iPod processor can use. The music files are not simply transfered to the device like you would a regular USB key, it won't work, iTunes needs to convert the files first.

So whatever other MP3 player will have to have a means to get the mp3 file onto their hardware, drag and drop copying could be possible, some devices take a SD or other media card, as long as the files are in standard MP3 format and the media is formatted MBR with FAT32.