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- tracydanger, on 10/12/2007, -8/+42BTW, I've known you could do this, but I just never had seen the instructions on apple's website. Some may find that news worthy. Some may not.
- Guard, on 10/12/2007, -8/+27I don't see the importance of this? They're just copying the iTunes folder to the hard drive and moving it to another computer.
I figured you would be able to manually copy music off the iPod or something. Buried as lame. - tdowling, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19probably in not being able to access the data from a non-Mac computer. FAT32 is compatible both ways.
- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Its amazing how much information is on Apple's own site, and just not that easily accessible.
- atgunning, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15When the hell did flag564 come back? I haven't seen a comment from that assclown in a while.....
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Thanks for answering the question instead of just burying it. That makes sense. I've just never looked into the file system that Mac uses.
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13The first low was acceping trolls.
- kdhoffman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11If you are at a friends house and have NOT enable disk use before leaving home, here is the trick:
1. Plug your ipod in to the friends computer,
2. Do NOT click any warning buttons in iTunes,
3. Open Explorer and navigate to the iPod_control folder.
All the music files will be oddly named, but in these situation, it really doesn;t matter. When dragged onto friends computer, iTunes will still pull the meta-data. - cinnix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@johndesmarais:
The internet is not a truck you just dump something on. - ikkmoof, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I work in a computer lab with both Macs and PCs, and I got to say even though I find myself at the PC's more often, the Mac's ability to boot as a mounted disk is extremely useful.
- sirdaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's impossible to brick your iPod from software.. the iPod restore app recreates the whole OS, including resetting the partitions on the disk.
Try a linux distro on your iPod as much as you like, you can always restore the original OS. - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9How so?
- wiihuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4super mario brothers?
- JohnDesmarais, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10@ flag564;
What are you talking about? This article has been on Apple's site "for years", it didn't just get dumped there. - KrazyA1pha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Who's flag564?
- toonarmy88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2because theres a lot of noobs like yourself
- chrisntr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9I always have my iPod formatted for Windows FAT32. The Mac format just restricts it too much.
- ChumpChief, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That complaint has to do with iTMS, not iPod.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"When the hell did flag564 come back? I haven't seen a comment from that assclown in a while....."
BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! HAHA H! HAHAHA!!! AHAH ahaha ha he he hehehe he hehe heh....... - ToasTeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@iStunt - I agree how does such a no content post make it so high up? I guess everyone need to start somewhere eh?
One thing tho - DRM can suck my puppy - Talamor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You have been able to copy all of the music on an iPod for quite some time. Plug the iPod in, go to "my computer", double click the iPod, and find the hidden folder "iPod_control." All of your music is in the "Music" folder, arranged in folders FF_00 through FF_49. They will be randomly named, but id3 tags on mp3's will remain intact.
- tdowling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There are a lot of people moving to a Mac for the first time and already have their iTunes libraries established on a Windows box. This is where Apple Store employees will usually point the switchers if they don't want to go off the record to recommend something like yamipod.
- Konstantino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know if people find this normal, but this tutorial guy has 377 unwatched/listened podcasts.
http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/51/3001731169840207/www.info.apple.com/images/kbase/300173/300173_a5.jpg - wonderchemist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I prefer Target Disk mode myself. But I suppose this has some use to Windows users with a Windows version that doesn't allow Windows to act as a file server.
- nestafett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dont forget to go to the menu in explorer and under tools, go to folder options and show hidden files, since ipod control is a hidden folder.
- DPimp1262, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The only thing I found really usefull about the apple tutorial is that it actually shows you how to make sure all the music you have is in one place before you move it. I use an external hard drive for my music but some of it is still spread out inside of my main drive and this tutorial is a nice way for me to make sure it's all in one place before I copy the music folder to another computer.
- iStunT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I don't see the importance of this? They're just copying the iTunes folder to the hard drive and moving it to another computer.
I figured you would be able to manually copy music off the iPod or something. Buried as lame."
agreed, only cavemen dont know how to do this. Buried as lame. - dmcipod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1just enable "manually manage music" under the summary tab on the iPod and you can use it with as many computers that you like, without it erasing your music
- duke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If you search hard enough on the iTunes support pages, you can also find a tutorial about restoring your computer's iTunes music if erased. I had to use this once when my HD crashed. The difference is that the process I used can be done without any advance preparation, whereas this tutorial assumes that you still have the original computer available to you.
- skew009, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This doesn't circumvent any DRM issues, so Apple isn't providing any illegal or sketchy information. You are free to transfer your purchased iTunes song files to as many computers as you want, they will only play if you authorize them (on up to 5 computers).
- dmcipod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2sorry dupe post
- MrMacMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is your friend using a mac?
If so, I recommend Senuti like (many) others have above me:
http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/ - uchimalbanish, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Ummm... I don't want apple to tell me what to do
- turdigg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0If you are at a friends house and have NOT enable disk use before leaving home http://www.voyage-voyage.info , here is the trick http://www.vip-tour.biz :
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All the music files will be oddly named, but in these situation, http://www.autorial.info it really doesn;t matter. When dragged onto friends computer, http://www.automig.info iTunes will still pull the meta-data. - SlayerKid99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Awsome! So now if I have to restore the computer from scratch I can just upload 'em back to my iTunes. YES!!
- Stopher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Does anyone have a link to the real way to do this? Someone asked me about it last week and I've been too lazy to research it.
- dmitriyvoz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I work in a computer lab with both Macs and PCs, and I got to say even though I find myself at the PC's more often, the Mac's ability to boot as a mounted disk is extremely useful. The same theme on Russian sites: http://pivo.in.ua http://www.alcogol.kiev.ua
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- raynar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1just find your itunes library file, copy it to another machine (might have to use a text editor to change the path) and use it.
Just drag and drop your mp3s from the ipod into itunes, and it will name them properly. - krellor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My sandisk mp3 player I bought years ago said that you could do this in its instructions. But yay, I guess, cause apple makes it cooler?
- frantic24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If you don't know how to use your iPod in hard drive mode, you shouldn't be reading digg.. BURY!
- bondkarl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This article has been on Apple's site for a while now and is how I learned how to move my files to another computer. You have to digg for this sort of information on certain websites.
- dmitriyvoz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0The author has mentioned very much a vital topic today. It seems to me that the problematics of this clause enables to reflect and draw conclusions. You can as to look sites in Russian which mention this theme: http://www.rolid.org http://www.se-ua.com
- josh42042, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2That will work, but using Podutil is much much easier
http://www.download.com/PodUtil/3000-2169_4-10533944.html
This program lets you copy music directly off of the ipod onto any computer. Program is free, registering only removes the "continue" button if you copy more that 50 tracks at a time. - mendigg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I work in a computer lab with both Macs and PCs, and I got to say even though I find myself at the PC's more often, the Mac's ability to boot as a mounted disk is extremely useful. http://www.rolid.org http://www.se-ua.com
- kenthorvath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you have a Mac, you can use this AppleScript to copy directly from your iPod within iTunes itself...
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts08.php?page=1#importipodaudiofiles
Description:
Select tracks on the iPod and then run this script to copy their files to your Music folder and add as library tracks to iTunes. Additionally, you can assign the new tracks to their own playlist. Supports AAC (including protected and "bookmarkable"), MP3, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV and Audible (.aa) files.
Will not work on Windows-formatted iPods.
• Latest version fixes problem with previously ignored "bad" characters in album and artist names that iTunes would normally convert to "_" (underscore); works correctly with FileVault active.
• v1.10 accommodates Audible files (".aa"); ProgBar displays track name rather than file name; some code streamlining. - Untiteld7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I've done this twice already and Apple does a great job at telling you how to do it, but why is this the top story?
- jmkiii, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2"I've known you could do this"
That means you are awesome. Just thought you should know! - alfavision, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Besides the music part, I have been using the IPod like an external hard drive ever since I bought it. It works like charm.
- Dudemullet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I wrote a simple program to help you do just that, all you need is .net framework 2.0 and this http://rapidshare.com/files/21802454/iPodtoPC-0.02.zip which is my little simple app, it will transfer your songs, and if they have an ID3 tag it will replace the 4 letter name ipod give to them. Hope it helps some of you people out.
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