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My iTunes is on my PC which is in a box somewhere in the basement cuz im temporarily living at my parents house right now until November. I've got some cool new music on my laptop. is there a way i can get the music from my laptop to my iPod without having anything bad happen?
i've heard that if you try to get music from another iTunes it wipes the memory or something like that.
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Sorry to hijack this thread a bit, but I have a related question. How can I register an Itunes account without a credit card?
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rollainm. they are all mp3's already. i downloaded these albums in mp3. i just need a way to get them on my iPod without messing up the music that is already on there.
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There is a detailed walkthrough of the process for copying the contents of your ipod onto a new computer. Google it.
Once this is done, put all the music you would like to load together. Reload all your music back onto the ipod using the new itunes on the new computer, and let it wipe the old stuff, which will be recopied.
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i dont have space for something like that on my laptop. i just have like 1gig of stuff i want to throw on there. is there no other program besides iTunes that i can get to do this?
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The way I understand it, if you burn them to CD and then rerip them, not only will you eliminate DRM restrictions and thus any risk if iTunes screws something up during the transfer, you'll have a hard copy of your music just in case you need to rip them again. Can you not convert unprotected mp3s to iTunes format?
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can one person not have the same iTunes account on 2 of their computers? that way i can laod music from either one. that is what im getting at
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You should be fine unless you have something like "automatically sync" checked. This will not be the default for a computer that hasn't see X ipod before.
You can have the same iTunes on up to five computers, hence the "authorize/deauthorize computer" function.
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Disclaimer: I haven't paid attention to any of this in a few years, there is a chance this information is outdated.
You can have something like 5 computers authorized for content purchased through a given iTunes account at any one time.
If you got the new songs you want to put on the iPod from the iTunes store, you can add them to the iPod and it should automatically transfer those (I don't think it will do that for non-iTunes purchased songs). Since you said you downloaded them in MP3 form, the best way to handle this would be to try to import the music from your ipod to your laptop and just resync it all. This is relatively easy to do, google it.
If you are having hard drive space issues and have a hard drive based iPod (iPod classic) with a reasonably large amount of free space on it, you could probably actually transfer everything from the hidden ipod music folder to the visible hard drive portion of it. You would probably end up going into iTunes preferences and changing the location of the music library to somewhere on the iPod (in hard drive mode), then follow whatever instructions you find through google to import music from an ipod to itunes.
Someone mentioned burning everything to CD and riping it. You can do this, but you will lose sound quality if you rip to MP3. Also, increasing numbers of songs available on iTunes are DRM-free. They're still encoded as aac files, not mp3s (aac offers substantially higher sound quality at a given bit rate and is an open format that several available players can use), but there is no authorizing or de-authorizing that you need to worry about.
And in regard to converting mp3s to "iTunes format" there is absolutely no need. iTunes plays extremely well with mp3 files (it was originally just an mp3 player before the store came around), as do iPods. If the file is already in mp3, transcoding to aac won't gain you any sound quality (you'll probably actually lose a bit, as the formats trash a slightly different subset of information, transcoding means you never had what mp3 ignores and you're throwing away what aac does).
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While we're here, I'm trying to rearrange the sequence of certain songs on my iPod. For example, I have the soundtrack to "Rent" and they put La Vie Boheme parts A and B into one track, and put "I should tell you" afterwards, instead of way the song is supposed to be, where "I should tell you" is an interlude between the two. I imported the song into Audacity, and broke it into two parts. Then I reimported it into iTunes, and changed it so that Part A is song 11/23 "I should tell you" is song 12/23, and part B is 13/23. But iTunes doesn't recognize the two modified songs, and plays them before the first song on the album.
I don't understand why you can modify the song order in the info window, but it completely ignores the changes. (Note, I've run into this many times, trying to get records from vinyl into itunes. It decides which songs came in what order based on how it imported them from the folder, so a lot of times they wind up in alphabetical order, instead of in sequence as they were on the record. This is particularly annoying on Pink Floyd albums, which just merge from one song into the next.
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