Music files are on my mp3 but I can't listen to them

[Lizardlounge]

I've dragged and dropped some downloaded and cd music files from Windows Media Player onto my new mp3 player. These songs show up in the folders section of the mp3 but not on the main scroll menu (scrolls through songs 1/10, 2/10, 3/10 etc but each record is blank). Whatsmore I can't hear the songs at all.
What have I done wrong? I thought Media Player automatically converts song format, am I wrong?

[dannywells]

Windows media player outputs music in wma format there is a good chance that your mp3 player cant play this format and needs the files in .mp3 format

check the manual to see what files it can play

[davidhm]

Hi there. You will have to convert your wav files to mp3 before you drag them to you mp player. There are several software packages on the market. I use CREATIVE.

bEST OF LUCK

dAVID

[teag1rl]

in additon to answers above-I found these useful when I asked similar Q
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Ques tion359414.html

[Lizardlounge]

You clever, clever people. Thank you so much. You were right about me needing to convert my music into mp3 format and I've now sorted it :-)

Oh happy days!