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Posted by Niall Leonard on 02/24/06 11:40
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:56:09 -0000, "Tricky Dicky"
<tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote:
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>"Sla#s" <phil@KNOTslatts.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:dtl2a0$mtv$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...
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>> "Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1140690182.38757.0@iris.uk.clara.net...
>>> Is it true that you can only use an iPod with one PC? Talking in the pub
>>> last night I was told that if you used one machine to load tracks onto an
>>> iPod you could then not take the iPod to another machine and add extra
>>> tracks - you could only delete the old tracks and then *pair* with the
>>> new PC to put the new tracks on
>>
>> Sort of...
>> You can only use one iTunes (As Emma says it can be on two machines) BUT
>> you can get music off another machine in disk mode, bring it back to
>> yours, load it to your "My Music" folder and then show it to iTunes. Then
>> load it to your iPod.
>> Just make sure that the other machines iTunes is not set to automatic
>> update, otherwise all your music will be wiped.
>
>Let me make sure I understand this:
>
>The songs are taken off the iTunes software running on machine no.1 using a
>CD-R (there is a function in the program called disk mode that allows this)
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>The contents of the CD-R are copied over to the My Music folder on machine
>no.2 and you get the iTunes software to search for these new tracks (but you
>make sure that automatic update is switched off)
>
>You can then just move the tracks over to the iPod as normal
>
>Is that right?
>
>Cheers
>
>Tricky
>
or you could use Ephpod which will allow you to dump every tune from
any iPod onto any PC (running Ephpod) no questions asked. Use it in
tandem with iTunes for best of both worlds.
I note recent versions of iTunes have taken away the ability to burn
to CD. Don't you just hate it when a company degrades its product and
calls it an upgrade?
nl
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