Sharing my library I want to get iPods for both my daughter and I, but have heard that you cannot share music. Is that true? I find it hard to believe that I would not be able to buy music in iTunes that we can both put on our iPods? Do we actually each have to have a computer, each have itunes and then buy music we both want twice? Sharing my library I want to get iPods for both my daughter and I, but have heard that you cannot share music. Is that true? I find it hard to believe that I would not be able to buy music in... » Read More Sharing my library I want to get iPods for both my daughter and I, but have heard that you cannot share music. Is that true? I find it hard to believe that I would not be able to buy music in iTunes that we can both put on our iPods? Do we actually each have to have a computer, each have itunes and then buy music we both want twice? « Show Less
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We might have the same problem! here is the link to the apple support page which might help.http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495good luck!
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I keep all my music on an external drive.....and I have 2 different iPods (a classic for ALL my music and videos, and a nano for certain playlists for workouts and travel)......by setting the playlists to manually sync (as suggested above) for whatever iPod is designated, you can control what goes on what, and allow each one to have a different set of music/videos on them.
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I have the same question as I would like to send one to my parents in Europe. Does anyone know the answer? Also, Can you play the same music through airplay on more that one unit simultaneously? (If I had one in different rooms, would they all play the same thing I launch ?)
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Get ANYTHING except a ipod and you'll have no problems syncing or transferring mp3s. I recommend getting a cheap $20 player, so when it breaks(and it will) you're not out a crapload of money. Also, you don't have the problem of itunes deleting your music like it has been known to do.
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There is a way to transfer your songs from the old computer to your new computer. I did this successfully a few months ago. I am fairly technically inept, but I was able to do it following Apple's instructions (see link at end of this post). It was a little bit of an ordeal, as I had to use my iPod as an external hard disk to move all my stuff over. However, if you follow the instructions from Apple's help link, you should be able to do it too. Good luck! http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329
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After you downlaod the itunes software into your computer it is simple. Load the cd's in your computer. Download the cd to your itunes program. Then hookup your Ipod to your computer by the USB cable and start downloading. It's that simple. The Itunes sotftware will tell you and ask you certain questions. Your Ipod has certain setting features that you can play with to make downloading eaiser. But she's 12, I think let her have it and well, she will be done in no time.
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I have done that so I could transfer music from one device to another. You can't play it from there like an MP3 device. But you could have it pluged into a computer or other device and play off it.
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A really good MP3 player that I have come across is the SanDisk Sansa e280 8 GB MP3 player. It is a little more expensive than most (I think new it's about $149.99, may be cheaper), however it lasted me about 7 years. It probably would have lasted me longer, except a friend borrowed it and left it in the rain. It is a pretty high quality player. Now on to the itunes issue. Itunes has basically made it so that you can't download music from them onto something that isn't apple, except a desktop computer. I received an itunes gift card once and did not own anything by apple. I downloaded itunes onto my computer easily and then bought a few songs. I did a lot of research and tried and tried to sinc the music onto my MP3 player, but nothing was working. Finally, I tried to download my songs onto a disc, which worked. Then I proceeded to upload that disc onto a different media player (Windows Media Player) on my computer that allowed me to download songs onto my MP3 player. All in all it was a very frustrating and difficult process. If you want to avoid the frustration of having to deal with itunes, I would just get an apple ipod, ipod touch, or something that apple allows itunes to download to. If you really want an MP3 player I would recommend the one I highlighted above.
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Also, PC iTunes can stream to numerous units simultaneously as well as Macs. I swap the audio back and forth from my Mac to the PC, depending on whose computer I'm wishing to use.
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Yes David, you can. You can also make it so only certain playlists go to each ipod. I sync 3 different ipods form my itunes, all have different songs.
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Thanks for your advice. The flip side of the beauty of not being locked into iTunes sounds like I would have to purchase a whole new library though, if I was not able to transfer from iTunes. True? And how would I be able to transfer music off my CD's into a Sansa?
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Since it's an iPod ya u would need iTunes, it will automatically ask u to download iTunes once u hook it up to ur computer. But u don't have to purchase music from iTunes, if u already have music on your computer u would need to import it to iTunes, it's pretty user friendly :)
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Hello Im not sure what you are asking but if you have a Cloud account ok. First you need to download a apple itunes account make one for free then synce your cloud account with itunes its easy to do then take your apple ipod nano 2nd gen my personal favorite sync it to your computer with itunes open clear it so its new or you will have problems it will freeze your computer and ipod next in the right top corner shoould pop up ipod nano 2nd gen drag the music from your itunes account to the ipod nano and there you hae it it works thats the only way I know how except ripping cds into itunes account and drag them into ur ipod any further questions my email is dee.lindsay327@gmail.com. Feel free to ask any questions hope this helps
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Also, you can download iTunes for free from Apple to try without having an iPod. Take a test drive with it and see how it works. This may help answer some of your questions.http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/
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Marian, this statement is completely wrong. I Am a long time member of Audible and can download books onto my iPod. In fact Audible offer a large discount off an Apple player as a promotion to get you to join. Audible works seamlessly with iTunes.
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My husband had downloaded cds on the computer and my son was able to transfer those among other music to his ipod. So i would say yes if your tech savvy!!
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I'm not positive but I believe you can use both. On my 2nd generation iPod touch I believe I found a few mp3 files and I saved them to my computer and when I went into my iTunes I just copied the mp3 files into my iTunes library.
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There are a couple of ways to do that, the easiest being to "authorize" your laptop to play your iTunes library (you can authorize up to 5 devices) and use the iCloud if you don't want to download the songs onto your laptop hard drive. You can also use google and Amazon's clouds to store files. Otherwise, you can "share" your library or us "Air Play."