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musiqman
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You Big Dummy
293 Posts
7/06
Posted - May 16 2007 : 12:55PM
I have 2 IPODs that I use in my car, home and office. IPOD A: has older music and a variety of pics that I would like to keep. IPOD B: Is the newer video version and I have downloaded several podcast that I wish to keep. My problem is I would like to the content on each to be exactly the same. I want the music on IPOD A to also be on IPOD B. I want the podcast transfered from IPOD B to IPOD A. Is there a way to accomplish this? Thanks.

Music the true universal language

DrP0rn0
Senior Member

1836 Posts
5/04
Posted - May 19 2007 : 11:10PM
The Apple supported method of doing this is to start at the computer, NOT at the IPod. You choose one computer to be the media source and transfer all music, podcasts, etc to the ITunes library of that computer. Then you simply sync each IPod with that computer. This is transparent and supported. The only difficulty is in moving the music from one computer to another, but even that is not too hard.

However, I get the impression that you either don't have access to the orginal machine(s) that synced these IPods, you've deleted the content from the computers, or maybe that you have music that isn't "yours" on one or both IPods.

Let's pretend that you have legal license to all of the songs, podcasts, etc that are on both IPods. You can extract this media from the IPods, but it will still all need to end up in ONE ITunes library on one computer.

Yamipod (google for it) is a free tool that can extract songs from your IPod and let you put them onto a computer. This is a very usefull tool if, like me, your computer's hard drive dies, taking part (or all) of your ITunes library away. Yamipod let's you pull the songs back off of the IPod.

Let me end this with something that I TRUELY believe and hopefully will keep any trigger happy moderator from locking this thread: You need to have legal license to every piece of media on your IPod. You should have either ripped the songs from CDs you own, purchased the music from a legal music source (like the ITunes Music Store), or simply have royalty free music (and podcasts). If not, there's really no two ways about it: You are stealing.

So, use the techniques above with this in mind.

Dr. P

musiqman
Member

You Big Dummy
293 Posts
7/06
Posted - May 21 2007 : 11:24AM
Thanks so much for the info. I will try it out and post my results.

Music the true universal language

musiqman
Member

You Big Dummy
293 Posts
7/06
Posted - May 21 2007 : 2:33PM
It worked like a charm. Thanks a bunch for the info. By the way, yes my music is legal either purchased or ripped from my collections of CD's.

Music the true universal language




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