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I-Pod And I-Tunes Library
digimon900
27-11-2007
I have an I-Pod Nano, Well My son does but its always been loaded using I-Tunes on my laptop.
I recently suffered a severe hard drive failure and my computer was repaired with a new (faster) harddrive for which I am grateful.
Anyway they managed to recover my data, my music and songs etc. which I found on my new drive when the computer was returned.
I decided to put some new songs on the i-pod but when its connected I get a message that says "This I-pod can only be sync - d with only one I-Tunes Library. Do you wish to delete all content on the I-pod and sync it with this new library?"
This is the only option and I dont know what to do!
Some of the material on the I-pod is unique and content that we have recorded in the studio - and has no copyright or other protection associated with it.
I dont want to lose the 800+ songs the i-pod contains even though most of them are on my computer.
All content I obtain legally,
How do I get round this? All I want to do is add new songs to the i-pod without losing the ones I already have!
Anyone have any ideas?
ZListersMustDie
27-11-2007
I made a guide for someone at work who had the same problem - it is reproduced here but you will have to cope without the pictures

Hope this helps

Transferring your songs from your ipod to your PC

1. when plugging your ipod into new laptop you will get a message saying "The iPod {name} is synced with another iTunes library..." Click on "Cancel"
2. Go to iTunes > Summary and ensure "Enable disk use" box is ticked (pic1)
3. Click on My Computer icon on desktop and the ipod should show as a removable disk drive - double click to open (pic 2)
4. Click on search and select "all files and folders" and large files (>1mb) (pic3)
5. From search results - select all music files (they are all encoded file names but will all have a suffix of .mp3 or .m4a) and go to Edit > Copy to folder... (pic4)
6. Select the place where you want to copy the files to. This location should be the folder where your iTunes looks for music by default - most probably c:\mymusic or c:\iTunes music (pic5/6)
7.in iTunes go to file > add folder to library... choose the folder where you copied the files to in step 6 (pic7/8)
8. iTunes will reconvert all the encoded (4letter filenames) and organise all files into relevant folders (e.g by name of artist etc)
digimon900
27-11-2007
I will try it - when my son comes home from school.
(The I-pod goes with him.)
Technically if I were to make a back up copy of the I-tunes folder then place it on My son's laptop would the i-pod be able to sync with either?
As he gets older I want him to be able to manage his own music (and other files like audio books).
It would help me if he did not have to use my laptop!
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