Posted by (PeteCresswell) on 04/26/06 12:58

Per Gary:
>Is this the way the iPod works, also? What function does iTunes add
>to this, aside from giving you access to their library of stuff they
>want to sell to you?

Yes and no.

An iPod does appear to your system as a disk drive and you can copy stuff
to/from it.

However the music resides in a special folder and the iPod can only get to it
through a proprietary database that it uses - and which is maintained by iTunes.

Bottom line: you can't just drag/drop a tune to the iPod and have the iPod be
able to play it. You have to add it to iTunes on your PC first. Also, when
iTunes copies the songs to your iPod it renames them to four-character names
like DCLY.m4a and HPUS.mp3 - so even if you browse that directory you cannot
tell what is what.
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PeteCresswell

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