I have an iPod that currently synchs with my home PC. I also hook it up with my work laptop. Both machines have mostly the same music though there are some minor differences and one machine has more videos than the other.
I would like to be able to synch the music on my iPod on both machines without losing anything (videos I loaded at home disappear when I synch at work). Is there any way to do this?
Also, there are songs I have bought from Yahoo music or MSN that cannot be played on iTunes. Is there an easy way to convert them?
As a fairly cheesy form of anti-piracy, iTunes will only allow you to sync your iPod to 1 music library. Furthermore, it will only allow transfer of songs TO the iPod and not FROM the iPod.
I’d suggest using a program like SharePod or EphPod, both of which allow this functionality.
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Also, there are songs I have bought from Yahoo music or MSN that cannot be played on iTunes. Is there an easy way to convert them?
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Unfortunately, no. If the songs are DRM’d (copy protected) they can only be played by the “approved” player. Unfortunately, the current breakdown is iPod+iTunes and EverythingElse. The workaround here is to burn the songs to a CD if that’s allowed. Then the CD can be imported into iTunes just like any other. In theory, you lose a little quality with this procedure, but it’s not much. Mostly, you lose blank CDs!
As a related question, hopw many times can I unauthorize one computer and authorize another? I ask because I have had to reinstall Xp and/or reformat about three times since I got my iPod, and have had to do that every time, and am worreid that at some point, it will say ‘limit reached, you now have a $400 paper-weight.’
Thanks for the info. I was afraid that you were going to say that.
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