I just purchased an ipod touch for my daughter for Christmas, I have an iphone. My laptop just crashed and not sure if it can be fixed. So I downloaded some songs on my husband’s computer and some on our main computer, so I am now trying to download the songs from each computer to put on her ipod, I thought I would be able to do this easily. Holy crap, here I am three hours later going from computer to computer and having to sync and erase OMG kill me now!!! Can some of you smart technology people tell me what to do, I am really hoping I am not stuck with three songs on her ipod as I can’t seem to sync these all together, I purchased the music on my account as she is too young to have her own account.
Hi and welcome to HTMF Rain… I have to admit I generally rely on invoking the gods when dealing with synching ipods and “Protected” music purchased and downloaded.
Unless someone with much more knowledge responds to your posting here, the best I can suggest for you is to browse apple.com/support/ipodtouch/. As it’s a brand new i-Touch, you may be able to arrange a phone call with an Apple support person… on that link you will see a further link on the upper right side of the page.
Good luck! BTW… your daughter will love it… mine certainly does.
Talk to Apple if you can.
If not, this might work for you. Hopefully the iPod Touch works the same as the older iPods. This has always worked for me…
The simplest was is to combine all of the music that you want to be on the iPod onto a removable drive, like a USB stick, an SD card, etc.
Open iTunes on the computer that you which to be the future docking station for the iPod and click on File/Add Folder to Library… At which point would select the folder on the removable drive containing the music.
Once the Music is on iTunes, you can drag and drop the files onto the iPod as you wish, though the iPod may need to be restored or sync’d first.
This is all a poor way of preventing people from sharing music with eachother. The iPod doesn’t know that you own both computers and that the iPod is also owned by you. It assumes that you connected your iPod to someone elses computer and are infringing on some form of copywrite law or policy, whatever by added their music.
The second approach may be a little complicated for you, given the trouble you’re already having, so try that stuff first and get back to us if you’re still not having luck. If it’s an issue with who owns the music, and not what computer it resides on, I might not be able to help.
The music isn’t protected, not if it’s downloaded from iTunes recently. Even if it were, you can use it on multiple computers without a problem.
If you purchased music on your iPhone or iPod, you can copy it automatically to your computer. This should happen automatically, if not there’s an option in iTunes that you have to turn on.
You can share (ie: copy) music files from one computer to another in the traditional ways (USB stick, e-mail, file sharing). You can also use the Home Sharing feature of iTunes to just automatically copy purchased music to all computers on your home network.
Don’t over think it – just copy the music files.