How come I cant find a song on my mp3 player after getting it copied from someone elses mp3 player?

This how-to will explain how one might go about doing this the best way. First and foremost, not all mp3 players are created equal. There are popular ones, like the iPod (in all its incarnations) and, more recently, the Zune, and there is a much more diverse category of mp3 players and portable audio devices made by other manufacturers besides Apple and Microsoft.

Creative, RCA, Philips, Sony, and iRiver, just to name a few, produce some fairly good quality mp3 players and portable media devices. These different brands and the fact that they're not all the same are mentioned because in essence, before determining how to get the files onto, and similarly, off of the player, you should know what kind of player you have, and a few things about it. Does it have internal memory?

Is it a hard-drive based player? Is there software packaged with the device? You should find answers to all of these questions before proceeding.

Windows Media Player is a program for Windows only, so none of these steps will consider the idea of getting music off of an mp3 player and onto the hard disk of any other kind of system except windows-based PCs.