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I'm about to buy an Ipod. The disc drive in my computer is broken. My mom has an Ipod and a computer with a functioning disc drive. She has already transferred all of her cds to her computer. My brother is going to mail me a disc with 600 songs on it. I want to put those songs on my Ipod.

I just went to the Apple store to ask questions and now i'm realizing I totally don't understand. The guy said something like "if you plug your Ipod into someone elses computer all of your music will dissapear." My brother told me something like "you have a personal account when you get an Ipod, similiar to an ATM card. Only you can use it." Wha?

My questions are: Once I use my moms computer to put music on my Ipod does that mean I will have to always use her computer? Am I even allowed to hook up my Ipod to her computer?

Would someone break this down into baby steps for me. I am totally dense and confused. TIA.

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I'm pretty sure you always have to use the same computer to update your iPod. I think you can set it somehow so that your music won't get deleted if you plug it into your mom's computer, but you can only "sync" your music library up to one computer. So the song list on your ipod has to correspond with the one on your computer. You can't hop between two computers picking songs from each to put on your iPod.

If your disc drive is broken, maybe you could get a flash drive instead. Give it to your brother, he'll put the songs on it, then he can give it back to you and you can put those songs in the iTunes library on your computer.


-- Edited by Kelly on Monday 23rd of March 2009 03:44:10 PM

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Kelly's right. I guess Ipod does this to discourage people from sharing music?

Basically once you get the music from your source, you won't be able to load it to your own computer. (Although there are programs that you can download to do this, however the music becomes unorganized)

Why don't you start downloading on the internet (uh not illegally or anything...)?

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Just don't set your iPod to sync with a/any computer. You are allowed to authorize 5 computers per iPod (once you are done transfering music you can deauthorize and get it back if that makes sense) so you can set your computer as one and your mom's computer and then as you get together with friends you can authorize/deauthorize just to transfer a few songs. As long as you don't sync you will not lose your music jumping computers to add music. When you don't sync it just means that if you want to add any songs you download from iTunes or transfer any songs from a friend you have to do it manually, the iPod won't just find the new songs and add them. It really isn't hard - just drag and drop songs to your iPod.

-- Edited by Aurora on Tuesday 24th of March 2009 07:28:36 AM

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-So I can use my moms computer to download(?) all my cds and add them to my itunes library?
-Then I can use my own computer if I want to purchase a song from ITunes?
-Can my moms computer have both her library and my library?
-Or do I put all my songs into her library?
-Can I access my library from any computer?
-I can authorize 5 different computers at any one time?
-I'll only lose music if I were to sync the Ipod to my computer then plug it into another computer? Does that mean I should avoid syncing all together? Just authorize?

I guess i'm still confused or am I just overthinking it. My mom lives 3 hrs away so i'm having this anxiety that i'm gonna "f" it up and my Ipod will be useless.

I guess it will all come together and make sense once I get it, right? I'll look into the flash drive as well.

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XtinaStyles wrote:

Kelly's right. I guess Ipod does this to discourage people from sharing music?


Really?? The iPhone lets you use the same account on up to 5 computers. I would have thought an iPod would function the same way.

Anyway, you can set your iPod to sync automatically when it's connected or only sync when you tell it to and what you tell it to, so you won't lose everything.

ETA: I just noticed Aurore had a similar response. I missed it the first time. smile



-- Edited by kenzie on Wednesday 25th of March 2009 02:40:06 PM

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wicked wrote:

-So I can use my moms computer to download(?) all my cds and add them to my itunes library?
-Then I can use my own computer if I want to purchase a song from ITunes?
-Can my moms computer have both her library and my library?
-Or do I put all my songs into her library?
-Can I access my library from any computer?
-I can authorize 5 different computers at any one time?
-I'll only lose music if I were to sync the Ipod to my computer then plug it into another computer? Does that mean I should avoid syncing all together? Just authorize?

I guess i'm still confused or am I just overthinking it. My mom lives 3 hrs away so i'm having this anxiety that i'm gonna "f" it up and my Ipod will be useless.

I guess it will all come together and make sense once I get it, right? I'll look into the flash drive as well.


Basically yes.  When you buy it and set it up you hook your iPod to your computer and then install iTunes.  In there are your set up options for your iPod.  You just simply remove the setting to sync your iPod everytime you plug it into a computer.  That way you won't lose your music.  Libraries are computer specific.  Meaning if you are at your mom's you will just have hers on her computer's hard drive but when you hook your iPod up you will have access to yours via your iPod.  Then if you want to transfer something to her iPod you just hook hers up too (most computers have 2 USB ports) and then drag and drop from iPod to iPod (it makes a copy not deletes from yours and adds to hers).  You won't be able to save to her hard drive though.

It is really easy you just need to buy it and start exploring with it. :)

 



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