Alrighty, here's the deal. 1st off, I'm getting older by the second messing with this iPod. I've got an old school 20GB iPod. I had been using it on the old home computer for a long time. I decided to add iTunes to the laptop as it is usually right here in the living room where I'm usually at when I'm home. Anyhow, I downloaded/purchased new music from the iTunes store, and it won't let me drag it over to the iPod. I'm not trying to move music from the iPod, simply move my new purchases over.. it just won't let me.. Help out a old confused man.. Thanks.. RS
iPOD Gurus.. help me out
- Thread starter Ol'Drippy
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Try putting the music you bought on your computer you have you ipod hooked up to. Also do you have manually manage music checked in the options on itunes?
I tried.. I do have "manually manage" checked.. iPOD and MAC sucks man.. or maybe I'm just getting too old.. time for bed now/ Later. RS
click on the election you want to put onto the iPod, and drag it to where it says the ipod is plugged in on the left menu.
The iPod will only synch with one computer at a time. If you want to move over to a 'new' computer, your best bet is to migrate your music collection to the new computer, then re-synch the iPod (with you newly purchased music) on the 'new' computer.
Otherwise, move the purchased music to your 'old' computer and synch as normal.
Otherwise, move the purchased music to your 'old' computer and synch as normal.
WNYDiscoIIErik said:
I tried that and it won't let me drag it to the iPOD, it will let me drag it over into a new playlist (on the computer, not on the iPOD)
Old computer has XP, laptop has Vista.. No MAC
Note -- if you do choose to synch with a 'new' computer, it will wipe your iPod and replace with music on the 'new' computer... hence the guidance to migrate the music manually before (or buy something like iPodLiberator to copy the music off the iPod to the 'new' computer).
If you bought music from iTunes on one machine and then copied them to the new one (or are trying to get your new iTunes to see them on the ipod) you need to enter your iTunes account info in the new iTunes so it verifies that you are the legal owner of those songs. iTunes allows you up to 5 differant machines to be registered under your account.
Timmys suggestion may be something to consider too. If one is a MAC and the other a PC, the iPod cant go between the 2 formats. It can go to multiple computers of what the iPod is currently formated for, but cant play between OS's.
Timmys suggestion may be something to consider too. If one is a MAC and the other a PC, the iPod cant go between the 2 formats. It can go to multiple computers of what the iPod is currently formated for, but cant play between OS's.
chrisvonc said:
Sorry Chris, but that's not necessarily true. I sync my iPhone calendar with Outlook on an XP laptop and sync my music to my iMac. With both I use iTunes. The funny thing is that it seemed to have to "learn" to do this before it would stop warning me that it could only sync to one machine.
I think his situation is that the iPod is not registered with the Vista laptop. They really don't like using multiple machines and it does typically want to wipe and replace everything on the iPod once paired.
I would burn all your songs on the XP box over to CD, import them onto the laptop, sync the iPod to the laptop, and let it put all the songs back on the iPod. I have had to do this several times with the pile of iPods we have in our family and it works.