iPod question

Got an iPod classic. Been wondering something though.

Say my computer went kaput - would my iPod effectively go kaput too in terms of losing all of my songs?

I've heard that if you try to connect your iPod to a new computer it will wipe the songs? Is this true? Is there anything you can do to prevent this happening?

Just thinking because if my computer ever got a virus or something and broke then I could be truly fu**ed. I've bought quite a lot of music from iTunes too.

Is this a help to you at all?

I just copied and and pasted your 'Say my computer went kaput - would my iPod effectively go kaput too in terms of losing all of my songs?' into Google and found this .


http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive/

Interesting question Ross. I've had various Zens for a number of years now but only one pod which I've passed on to my son. To be honest I found the iPod a bit girly and lightweight. My Zen will store my music and can transfer it on to other P.Cs.

Surely to f**k iPod (Apple) have grown with the times and can match the original and the best - Zen.

As long as you set Itunes to "Manage music manually" or something you'll be fine. I just used mine to shift my whole library from my old laptop to new one. Didnt lose a thing.

Is this a help to you at all?

I just copied and and pasted your 'Say my computer went kaput - would my iPod effectively go kaput too in terms of losing all of my songs?' into Google and found this .


http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive/

Cheers mate, however F**k me is that long winded!

Don't fancy reading through all of that!

As long as you set Itunes to "Manage music manually" or something you'll be fine. I just used mine to shift my whole library from my old laptop to new one. Didnt lose a thing.

Interesting.

Any chance you could go through the steps mate of how you did it?

Then that means I can move everything to my laptop aswell as the home PC.

Cheers mate, however f**k me is that long winded!

Don't fancy reading through all of that!

Interesting.

Any chance you could go through the steps mate of how you did it?

Then that means I can move everything to my laptop aswell as the home PC.

Search it on iTunes website.

Just had a good look round and there's nowhere that explains it easily.

It all seems really long-winded and hard to do.

I wouldn't bother doing it, it's just the fact I fear one day the home PC may break and I'll lose everything...

I've got a problem actually (wouldn't be a bad thing if you renamed this thread Ipod help)
Erm yeh, i had my Ipod connected with my brothers laptop as i didn't have one then now i have mine and i've downloaded all my songs i want to connect it with that
But each time i try it says that its unauthorized or something :S And i need to register AGAIN, when i'm already registered with Apple



Help ?

Just had a good look round and there's nowhere that explains it easily.

It all seems really long-winded and hard to do.

I wouldn't bother doing it, it's just the fact I fear one day the home PC may break and I'll lose everything...

Just buy a few DVDs and burn it on to them and store it. Then if your PC crashes you can just put the DVDs in to your new computer and get your music.

Just buy a few DVDs and burn it on to them and store it. Then if your PC crashes you can just put the DVDs in to your new computer and get your music.

And will it not wipe my iPod to prevent file sharing etc?

Lazy bi*ch ^

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329

I don't care if it's long winded, just do it!

I've got a problem actually (wouldn't be a bad thing if you renamed this thread Ipod help)
Erm yeh, I had my Ipod connected with my brothers laptop as I didn't have one then now I have mine and I've downloaded all my songs I want to connect it with that
But each time I try it says that its unauthorized or something :S And I need to register AGAIN, when I'm already registered with Apple



Help ?

Is this an iPod touch? If you have it activated to one computer, you cannot activate it to another. While you can charge it on there, you cannot add any files to it, eg. videos, apps etc.

Is this an iPod touch? If you have it activated to one computer, you cannot activate it to another. While you can charge it on there, you cannot add any files to it, eg. videos, apps etc.

You can if you set the Ipod to become a hard drive then use it that way.

Is this an iPod touch? If you have it activated to one computer, you cannot activate it to another. While you can charge it on there, you cannot add any files to it, eg. videos, apps etc.

Yeh its a touch, so what do i do? :/

Yeh its a touch, so what do i do? :/

Try to unactivate it from your brother's laptop and then connect it to your own.

Or set it to hard drive as Alastair said.

Or set it to hard drive as Alastair said.

......and you, or Alistair, will talk jonty through the process, won't you? Good lad.  

Not to sure but try this http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1478.