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ipod touch 8g to ipod touch 32g
fw750x
13-04-2010
Hi everyone my daughter has a 8g ipod touch,I have bought her a new 32g ipod touch for her birthday in a couple of weeks.Can we transfer her music from one touch to the other ? Also the screen on the 8g ipod touch has a large crack on it "still works o k "i am hoping to buy a replacement screen and fit it ,So i might get it if i play my cards right.Cheers Francis
pilot25dmc
13-04-2010
Yes, no problem at all. The music is not stored on the iPod, its stored on the home computer your daughter uses, the music on the iPod is a copy of the music on the home computer. When your daughter connects the new iPod the home computer will stick a fresh copy of her music on it.

Apple will replace the screen on the damaged device for a fee, think its £90 or you could google a independent company in the UK that will do it cheaper.

Hope that answers your questions sufficiently.
IvanIV
14-04-2010
The music is stored on the ipod, it would not be able to play it if it weren't. It's just without a help of non apple SW it's not possible to transfer it to desktop. In your case just synchronise the new device with your daughter's itunes library from itunes.
pilot25dmc
14-04-2010
No, I think you will find that the music on your iPod is a copy.

The computer that your iTunes library is on is the host, the iPod(s) that you listen to your music on carry a copy of this music.

If it transfered the entire file from your computer then you would be unable to listen to the file on your computer and the iPod at the same time.

The simple answer to the original question is "yes", transferring your daughters music to her new iPod is as easy as clicking a few buttons in iTunes.
fw750x
14-04-2010
Hi Pilot25dmc thanks for the info ,I was not sure if this was possible.I don,t want to ask my daughter just yet if she knows how to swap it over,She does not know i have got the 32g for her birthday yet.Thanks again Francis
goodkarma
15-04-2010
when your daughter register the 32gb ipod from the same itune in your pc, then transfering the songs should be no problem. I had my i pod touch 1st, 6months later when i had my iphone i transfered songs and pictures painlessley through itunes on my laptop, see no reason why it should be different in your case
fw750x
15-04-2010
That is good news,Thanks goodkarma.Francis
frost
15-04-2010
Originally Posted by pilot25dmc:
“No, I think you will find that the music on your iPod is a copy.
.”

But still stored on your iPod, copy of the files on your pc or not. Otherwise it wouldnt play as there woudl be nothing on your player. Just like IvanIV said.
pilot25dmc
16-04-2010
Originally Posted by frost:
“But still stored on your iPod, copy of the files on your pc or not. Otherwise it wouldnt play as there woudl be nothing on your player. Just like IvanIV said.”

So when you copy music onto a CD there is nothing on the CD?

The music "stored" on your iPod is a COPY of the music stored on your host computer. Hence you are able to COPY this music onto any device that you sync with this host computer.

Any file that you put on a disk, pen drive, ipod, flash drive, is a COPY of the original file. It has the same bit rate, size, its exactly the same as the original but it is still a COPY.

If iTunes put the original file on your iPod then you would not see the file in iTunes, iTunes puts a copy of the file onto your iPod.

I am an official support tech on the Apple website by the way.
sotek
16-04-2010
Originally Posted by pilot25dmc:
“I am an official support tech on the Apple website by the way.”

Seriously?

I am sorry but your responses on this thread would suggest not. Of course the music files are stored on both the ipod and pc ... and to suggest anything else is just you playing with semantics.
pilot25dmc
16-04-2010
playing with semantics? Is this an English language topic or are we still talking about iTunes?

When you put a CD in your disk drive and you copy the songs from it to your computer, you don't transfer them, that would wipe the disk, you make a replica of the files stored on the disk and they are then stored on your computer.

It works the same way with an iPod and iTunes, you download the songs from iTunes and you then copy or 'sync' the songs to your iPod or digital device. The songs are now on both your iPod and your computer, both files are indistinguishable from each other.

We are all singing from the same hymn sheet here, we are all talking about the same thing, just wording our answers differently.

There ARE files STORED on your iPod, you CAN listen to them, The same files ARE ALSO STORED on your host computer. I call any file duplicated from an original a COPY, thats the way I do it and this is the first time that it has ever been questioned.

I answer questions on the Apple support forum for iTunes related problems, I am not paid by Apple or work for them, I am just an 'Official Forum Tech', bit of a daft title really, all you need to to do to get that role is have a high success rank.

We have got so far off the original topic now its ridicules, I wont be discussing this any farther.
goodkarma
16-04-2010
Originally Posted by fw750x:
“That is good news,Thanks goodkarma.Francis”

you are welcome
jonnyinscotland
17-04-2010
Originally Posted by fw750x:
“Hi everyone my daughter has a 8g ipod touch,I have bought her a new 32g ipod touch for her birthday in a couple of weeks.Can we transfer her music from one touch to the other ? Also the screen on the 8g ipod touch has a large crack on it "still works o k "i am hoping to buy a replacement screen and fit it ,So i might get it if i play my cards right.Cheers Francis”

A friend of mine used the instructions here to do the same thing you're planning to do. Apparently very fiddly but saved him a bit of money. Good luck!
pjo123
17-04-2010
Originally Posted by pilot25dmc:
“ copy or 'sync' the songs to your iPod or digital device. The songs are now on both your iPod and your computer, both files are indistinguishable from each other........................................”

What about when I use itunes on my ipod touch to download songs/apps etc. Surely, these then get copied to the PC when it syncs
Gareth56
17-04-2010
Originally Posted by pilot25dmc:
“I am an official support tech on the Apple website by the way.”

Do you think then that Apple will ever admit that they boobed with headphones for the 3rd gen iPod Shuffle
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