Posted by niall on 02/25/06 17:18

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:31:00 -0000, "Tricky Dicky"
<tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"Niall Leonard" <niall@inkything.0M1TTH1S.com> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:56:09 -0000, "Tricky Dicky"
>> <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Sla#s" <phil@KNOTslatts.fsworld.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>>> "Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>>>> 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)
>>>
>>>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?
>
>Thanks for that - ephpod looks just the thing.
>
>One final final question - I promise: the website for ephpod says you use a
>firewire cable for the transfer - does that mean the standard cable that
>comes with an iPod? You will have to forgive me for the dumb questions but I
>don't own an iPod - I am just going to sort out someone's problem
>
>Tricky
>
Some models of iPod came with USB connectors, some with firewire and
some with both. Apple prefers firewire, where the connector is a
hollow oblong with a curve at one end. This is the same cable that
connects to the charger unit. The symbol is a circle with three arms
coming off it, a bit like the symbol for radioactive (except that that
used to have a skull at the centre, until the nuclear PR people
changed it to a solid circle, not many people know that)

And for what it's worth when I use Ephpod it's quite happy with a USB
connection.

nl

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