New Geoff wrote:
"Triffid" pointed out...

It is not a digital cassette recorder.

Yep - I know that . . . having gone out for a minidisc initially I
bought this thing . . .

You have to get the music on a pc
somehow and then upload it into the player.

I was hoping I could coy across the albums I already have - but they
aren't MP3 . . .

What format are they in? If you mean real CD's then you'll need to 'rip'
them to MP3 using something like Music Match or iTunes


I would have thought that the software supplied might have been
capable of this.

Just drivers on there - Me & XP don't take anything off the disc.

Many USB gadgets 'self install' on XP. Just plug it in and see what happens!



Anyhow, one of the simpler ways of getting music into the thing
might be Musicmatch (www.musicmatch.com ) which hap a very capable
MP3 encoder and is quite 'user-friendly', although the full version
requires a small payment. I've lost faith with it now because it
hasn't really been developed for years and is more focussed on
making money out of you than it was.

Ta - I have visited & downloaded. I'll browse & try to figure it all
out.

iTunes does the same job, and it's free (and much more elegantly designed)