i-pod Question

[Kosherhamm]

So...... Being born befor 1990 I have NO idea how to use an IPOD....

Heres my question:

How can i take an IPOD from my mothers computer and transfer songs from my computer on it, and if i do can she then put those songs on her computer (if we are both using ITunes) and to do this would she lose all the songs she has already put on her IPOD?

Thanks in Advance


**** the ducks

[DotUKings]

The answer is you can't, and you can't.

Ok, technically you can, but you will have to d/l some software that will let you transfer the files from your ipod to any hdd. And you also have to change the setting which will allow your ipod to show up in the 1st place.

Next, you are gonna have issues with the DRM on the files if you d/l them from Itunes, so you might want to get software to help you unlock your music. ******I AM NOT SUPPORTING ILLEGAL SWAPPING OF MUSIC. THEFT IS WRONG******

Then, if you guys have separate Itunes accounts, it won't let you use those songs you transfered over unless they are unlocked. Because that would be theft.

Have fun.

[BDTR]

Originally Posted by Kosherhamm

So...... Being born befor 1990 I have NO idea how to use an IPOD....

Heres my question:

How can i take an IPOD from my mothers computer and transfer songs from my computer on it, and if i do can she then put those songs on her computer (if we are both using ITunes) and to do this would she lose all the songs she has already put on her IPOD?

Thanks in Advance


**** the ducks

What kinds of computers are you running iTunes on? A Mac? Windows? If the first computer you formated your iPod was to a PC running Windows, then you can.

[Kosherhamm]

Originally Posted by BDTR

What kinds of computers are you running iTunes on? A Mac? Windows? If the first computer you formated your iPod was to a PC running Windows, then you can.

Both Computers are PC's.... what can i do?

[go]

copy the songs onto a usb stick if they are MP3s.

[Subhuman15]

easiest way is to get them off your computer & onto an external hard drive.They are cheap,very portable and easy to use.

[OrangePuck]

are you going to keep the iPod or are you just borrowing it?

[Kosherhamm]

Originally Posted by OrangePuck

are you going to keep the iPod or are you just borrowing it?

Its my mothers IPOD... she has songs from her computer on it but wants songs from mine on it as well...

[FootKnight]

The only way you are going to get songs from your iPod onto hers is if you transfer them to her computer and she puts them into her iTunes library. If you hook up her iPod up to your computer and iTunes takes it, it might re-sync with your iTunes and delete all her music off of it. Easiest way would probably be just burn them to DVD (or CD...), or you could just set the iPod up to be read as a portable HDD.

When you hook up her iPod to her computer go into iTunes and look at her iPod under the devices tab on the left. On the Summary tab for the iPod there will be a checkbox labeled "Enable for disc use." Check this box and you can use the iPod as a portable HDD. Connect the iPod to your computer and open explorer (My Computer, or whatever it is called on Macs) and it should pop up as a portable HDD. Just copy the music she wants onto it. When the iPod is enabled this way you have to hit the disconnect button in iTunes (looks like an eject button next to the name of the iPod on the left) otherwise it might mess something up.

Take it back over to her computer and she can copy the files to her computer and add them to her library and re-sync her iPod. You can uncheck the "Enable for disc use" after this so she doesn't have to hit the disconnect button every time. I do this with my iPod, I currently have 11.5 gigs of extra junk on it. You can't access these files through the iPod interface, it's just storing them.

Hope that helps you.

Originally Posted by BDTR

What kinds of computers are you running iTunes on? A Mac? Windows? If the first computer you formated your iPod was to a PC running Windows, then you can.

I could be wrong about it not letting you though.


EDIT
That second paragraph ended up as a dreaded wall o' text, just splitting it up.

[OrangePuck]

Originally Posted by Kosherhamm

Its my mothers IPOD... she has songs from her computer on it but wants songs from mine on it as well...

if that is the case the easiest thing to do is to copy your mp3 to a flash drive or burn them as data to a cd and just copy the mp3 onto your mom's computer and link them to itunes.

If you don't have a flash drive, whatever you do don't burn an audio cd with your mp3s and then rip the finished disc on your moms computer. Just burn the mp3s as data files to a disc and take the disc to your moms pc and copy the files over.

[gunmetalgray]

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