Ipod question

[MKJ]

I'm fairly technologically inept and I must say I find this ipod a confusing piece of hardware.

Aye, me too.

you find a rock a confusing piece of hardware. shush

[Ryoki]

T'is true

[Jackal]

If I can indeed hook my ipod up to someone else's itunes then what the heck are they talking abou here?
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/win ... c_t11.html

[raw]

I said you could.

[Jackal]

so when I do it I have to manually move the songs? It won't just automatically dl them?
Am I on the right page here?

[raw]

If you leave it on Auto it will overwrite what you have her and sync it up to her "Library". If you put in on Manual, you select which ones you want to sync and then manually right click and select "Update iPod". Make sense?

[Jackal]

makes sense. thanks raw.

[Dave]

That's just not right because I do it all the time at work on my workstation and on 3 computers i have at home: my dull, my g5 and my powerbook..

ahhh.. unless they're talkign about automagic updating

[R00k]

http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/

I've been meaning to use Anapod to sync my gf's music collection with mine, but I haven't gotten around to trying it yet. When I paid for Anapod, I had to register it to my particular iPod, so I'm not sure if it tries to impose the same limitations as iTunes does or not.

That being said, things are much simpler and more straightforward with Anapod than with iTunes. You just use the Windows explorer interface and drag all the music you want straight to your iPod. As long as you've got them tagged correctly, all the automatic playlists on the iPod work exactly the same as they do with iTunes, and you can still make your own morph-lists like you can in iTunes.

After using mine for about a month, my opinion is that Apple gives you a terrific music player, and then gives you software that complicates everything about it, and makes song sharing and transferring feel like some kind of minefield, not knowing what you can and can't do. The way they try to explain it is ambiguous and vague.

[glossy]

Quick question -- If I have an iPod with music and stuff on it, that won't stop me from plugging it into my mate's computer and using it as a removable hard drive, right ?

[R00k]

Nah, as long as you've enabled the iPod to act like a removable hard drive. Can you browse it through explorer on your own PC?

[Canis]

Yes, as long as it's formatted to NTFS or FAT32. Apple HFS+ formatted ipods wont mount on a windows machine.

[Iccy (temp)]

Why not drag the tunes ot the removable device listed in my computer, drag it to your PC then important to your library from the folder you keep all your music in.

Never have to worry about lock out then.