# Fighting my iPod ignorance

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 13, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-my-ipod-ignorance/339860 "2006-01-13T19:30:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-my-ipod-ignorance/339860/1 "2006-01-13T19:30:01Z")

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My gf and I bought eachother 60G video iPods for Christmas.

I am a lazy/sloppy digital music manager in recovery.

Over holiday vacation I ripped a handfull of my cds with iTunes while not online and without sitting at the computer and manually editing the ID3 tags appropriately. As such, I just transfered the numbered tracks to my iPod and then deleted them from my Library one cd at a time. Since then, I’ve been manually editing the ID3 tags of the files on my iPod.

Now I want to be able to get a copy of some of these files to my gf’s iPod, but I’ve run into the following obstacles:

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[li]No dragging and dropping a selection of songs from my iPod to my Library[/li][li]The way the files are stored on the iPod make it tedious at best to find the specific songs I want my gf to have[/li][li]I left the cds I had ripped with my Mom so she could enjoy them until our next visit[/li][/ul]

Do I have any non-tedious options, or am I stuck in that grey area where what I’m trying to do is too indistinguishable from stealing music and therefor I’m screwed?

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**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-my-ipod-ignorance/339860/2 "2006-01-13T19:49:10Z")

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> [@honeydewgrrl](#):
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> [ul]  
> [li]No dragging and dropping a selection of songs from my iPod to my Library[/li][li]The way the files are stored on the iPod make it tedious at best to find the specific songs I want my gf to have[/li][li]I left the cds I had ripped with my Mom so she could enjoy them until our next visit[/li][/ul]
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> Do I have any non-tedious options, or am I stuck in that grey area where what I’m trying to do is too indistinguishable from stealing music and therefor I’m screwed?

I can’t help you with the way the iPod sorts files - that’s just a function of how the firmware was written, and I don’t believe that it can be altered (or, if it can, that it would automatically change anything).

However, if you’re on a PC, you can use [EphPod](http://www.ephpod.com/) to get the files off your iPod. If you’re on a Mac, use [iLinkPod](http://www.ilinkpod.com/). Once you re-import to your library, iTunes should read the ID3 tags and make life easy again.

Caveat: These are technically not Apple-sanctioned activities, just technically feasible.