Comments on: Dear Steve: you missed a spot

Why is it so difficult to transfer an iTunes library using your iPod when you buy a new Apple Mac computer?

[willum08]

Simple answer to iPod problems......

Ditch it! and get a simple MP3/WMA player, which does not impose all these petty restrictions. There are plenty of them available.....

[Saladdin]

Reply to Molly Wood about Steve Jobs

Hi Molly,

I use iTunes on both my XP Home Ed' sp2 laptop pc and on my Vista Home Premium 'living room pc'. ALL of my 'itunes' content whether it be music, podcasts or whatever are stored on an external FAT32 usb2 hard drive. In order for all of my 'iTunes stuff' to be playable on BOTH of my pc's I have changed the settings in iTunes on both pc's to store all downloads in the same specially created folder on this external drive.

I have had no problem putting songs onto my (or my sisters)1st generation 2Gb iPod Nano, from either my XP Home Ed' sp2 laptop pc or my Vista Home Premium living room pc by just dragging and dropping individual songs or whole 'folders' from the music library (stored on the external FAT32 drive) directly into the 'folder' that appears in iTunes that identifies the particular iPod.

In order to get all of these same songs onto my brothers' much larger multiple iPods all I had to do was connect my external drive to his Sony Vaio XP Pro laptop and go from there. I did the same with my sisters' Apple mac computer by just plugging the drive into her computer.

To transfer all of my iTunes content to Windows versions of iTunes all I had to do was open iTunes on whichever computer and then go to the option called 'File', click on 'Add folder to library' then choose the right folder and so on. I don't remember what the options are called on a Mac as I did this more than two years ago and my sister has not asked me do do it again since.

This does take a while because I have at least 5,600 songs imported from 'official' cd's and a few songs that were originaly downloaded via a peer to peer application called limewire (no longer on my XP laptop, and never installed on my Vista pc) for VALUATION PURPOSES ONLY so that I could find out if they were worth buying, which were then deleted after I bought the 'official versions'. I have also dowloaded over 450 'iTunes' podcasts on this external drive, but it doesn't cause me any real problems as I only have songs on my iPod because it is too small for anything else

As I have also had to do quite a few 'full system recoveries' I also downloaded iTunes and all of my other 'downloaded' applications to my desktop on both computers before installing them so that I could drag and drop their set-up folders onto this same external drive first. I do not have any 'personal files' of any kind stored on the C:\ drive of either of my computers that are not also stored on my external hard drive, that way I never lose them in the event of another system recovery.

I am yet to get to the stage where I would want to remove any songs from my iPod Nano as my favourites that are on there come to over 400 songs anyway. Every time I plug my iPod into either my XP or Vista pc (which I have to do to charge the battery - which annoyingly only lasts about 2 hours MAX not anything like the quoted 14 Hours!) I have not experienced any problem with the synch feature trying to change anything, but perhaps I might if I want to remove some songs in order to put some pics or new songs on it.

Rob

[metalhead11]

Dear molly! GET OUT OF 2005

Ever since 2006, you can upload music from your ipod to your computer. so
stop being stupid and bashing apple cnet!