Is it possible to copy my CD’s onto iPod without using iTunes?
October 28th, 2009
Richard_SM asked:
We’ve just got an iPod Nano. We’re at the learning stage – never had an MP3 player before.
We’ve just got an iPod Nano. We’re at the learning stage – never had an MP3 player before.
We want to put some CD’s onto the iPod.
But instructions say it has to be done thro iTunes.
But we’re at a different house and can’t use a different computer apparently.
So – is it possible to copy CD onto iPod at a friends house?
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you need to do it through itunes.
You can only do it through iTunes, do it at your friends house, but when you get back you will have to do the same thing to your computer and change libraries….
NO the ipod MUST be used with itunes..
The ipod is designed to work with and be the slave to itunes on the computer to which its paired.
If you do not pair a ipod to a computer you cannot alter its settings.
If you pair your ipod to a new computer it overwrites whats on it.
Simply dragging music onto an ipod does NOT make that music playable it then acts as hard disk. To make the music playable you MUST use itunes to sync with it as only itunes can put the music files in the correct file names (not the same as on the computer) in hidden folders and create the hidden indexes for them to be playable.
When you pair the ipod to a computer it erases ALL the previous library and tracks and replaces it with what the current computer want it to.
if you want to erase the ipod you select RESTORE form the ipod’s tab in itunes then it re formats and re installs the ipods firmware resetting everything to default values and removing the lock (except for the touch which asks for the code to allow this)
the ipod needing a master player to sync with is NOT unique to apple Creative, Zune, Sony al have one of one sort or another.
to add a CD simply start itunes put the CD in your computer and then click on the CD (if no track names appear select ‘get track names’ from teh advanced menu and it will look up the CDDB for track names.
then click on the cd and click import or simply drag the cd’s contents into the music library adn it will import the musi into ituenes