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Posted by Sla#s on 02/24/06 22:31
"Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Sla#s" <phil@KNOTslatts.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
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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
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>> 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.
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> Let me make sure I understand this:
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> 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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No - Just use the iPod as an external drive!
You don't need a CD-R
But on the other hand if you have a CD-R why bother with using the iPod?
> The contents of the CD-R
No Use the iPod as a drive - Just drag the songs you want to it - The iPod
sofware will not see them, that's why you have to then drag them to your
main PCs drive and then let iYunes reload them.
>...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)
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> You can then just move the tracks over to the iPod as normal
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> Is that right?
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No. Just use the...... :-)
Slatts
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