Ipod music transfer question

Conflicted · 08-31-2006

EphPod - iPod for Windows (and Linux) :: HOME

I don't think the making it a HDD will work, because of the way Itunes encodes the music, and how they make everything work.

I've looked at the files on My ROKR phone thing, and they were named 358907349057 and, yeah.
That program will do it though. (ithink)

Dionysus · 08-31-2006

Search for PodUtil, it's a program made to transfer iPod to computer. Although I'm sure the other ways work as well.

kevinXcore · 09-06-2006

this might work i dont know. but when i was about to reboot my computer due to a virus, i had the option of connecting my computer and my old one thru ethernet and having it work as one big hard drive. it might work if you connect this laptop and just copy all the music.

Kinggames · 09-07-2006

I didn't open any of the links posted, so I hope this isn't in them.

Are the songs you want just on your iPod/iTunes? If they're anywhere else on your computer, just open up "My Computer" and then go to the drive the iPod is labeled to. There won't be anything listed there, maybe a few folders with really nothing in them. Drag all of your songs into your iPod drive (It won't add them onto your iPod), connect it to your laptop, then access that same drive and drag the songs out of there.

That's what I did.

Superstar · 09-08-2006

A free laptop? WOW!

Anyway, Buy a portable hard drive (20-40G) and a case for it. There about $75 and you can put all the music on that, then onto the new computer.

Or another way, if you have broadband and a router.
-Plug both computers into the router and configure the laptop to your IP address.
- Put all the music into the shared network drive. Then move all the music from the network drive to the laptop.
- You could also move the Itunes from program files to your laptop prgram files drive.
- Make sure all the paths are correct, ie: the music is still in My Music if thats where it was in the old computer.
- I'm hoping the iTunes thing works because I've never had to use it.

Subject 17 · 09-09-2006

theres many ways you can do it.

1) the way in the links above. create a new folder on you ipod, enable disk use, use my computer (or the equalivilant on your OS) to find your ipod, paste all the songs onto the ipod.

2) make a .zip folder of all your songs and then put them on your ipod. this is usefull if you have little room left. if you have like no room, just delete all your songs off the ipod then copy and paste all the originals.

Make sure to:

find the size of your laptops harddrive. If you have the 60GB or 40GB ipods, your laptops harddrive may actually have less room than your ipod!

keep a backup of all your files

know if your laptop can charge your ipod. if not, then but the dock.

BTW, can you keep your old computer?

Wabba · 09-11-2006

My old computer is at home, i own that one.
I used ephpod, however, all the songs (100 of them) that I had downloaded from limewire did not transfer.

When I go back home, im going to try to use my ipod as a drive thing.
I also got a 1gig usb drive memory card looking thing...can that work?

TEKNIC · 09-12-2006

Well, your first mistake was getting an Ipod.

Wabba · 09-13-2006

Nice sig Tek

Unwritten Law · 09-14-2006

I got it to work for me wabba... I got a new computer for school and not al my music was transfered to it but I had my ipod with 1600 songs or whatever... so what you do is get that PodUtil program and just dont register for it when you download it.... After you download a set of 50 songs it asks you to register and you just hit ok and keep downloading from your ipod.... The trick is that since its not formatted as a drive itunes will auto update it so just make sure you hit like dont update when itunes opens.