Thursday, February 26, 2009

iPod offers three ways to transfer music from your computer to ipod!!!!

There are lot of question and problem if you have an ipod about how to transfer music from ipod to computer and itune. Unfortunately, iTunes doesn't provide this feature at all. But there can be a number of cases when you need it, for example, when some multimedia was lost after your formatting the hard drive or when you want to make a backup of an entire iPod collection.


For this you need to understand how ipod store music and this will help you to take back up of your music library if your computer get crashed.



1. First connect your ipod to computer and avoid itune autosync.


2. To avoid auto-sync, press shift and ctrl key of your keyboard when you are connecting your ipod to computer.


3. Hold shift and ctrl keys and open itunes (normally itune will open automatically when you connect ipod).


Don't let go of Shift+Ctrl.


• Wait until the iPod shows in the Source list under itune devices (it take sometime to show ipod in device of itune while, but don't let go of Shift+Ctrl)


Note: itune ark one pop up message to choose an existing library or to create a new one. Click on Create a new one so that it can just open.


Once it shows up, close iTunes.



How can I transfer or copy music from my computer to my iPod?



In the official company FAQ, Apple explains that:



iPod offers three ways to transfer music from your computer. You can select one of the following update modes from the iPod Preferences menu in iTunes:



1. Automatically update all songs and playlists. This is the default mode, in which your entire music library, including playlists, is automatically synched to your iPod. If the music library on your computer exceeds the iPod storage capacity, iTunes will offer to choose a selection of songs to sync to iPod.



2. Automatically update selected playlists. With this option, iTunes automatically copies only the playlists you have selected to iPod when you connect it to the computer. This option can be selected by accessing the Music tab of the iPod settings.



3. Manually manage music. You can also choose to transfer music to iPod manually. This allows you to drag and drop individual songs and playlists from iTunes to iPod. You can find this option by accessing the Summmary tab of the iPod settings.



How to transfer music from your itouch to your computer?



Step1: After youriPhone/iPod/iTouch connected to pc, Launch the program you will see the right UI. Normally, the program will search the device automacially.If the device is enabled, the files (songs/movies/pics) will be shown in the list. You also can click the "Rescan" button to search the device again.



Step2: From this list, you can now select and checkmark the files you want to back up. Or you can click "Open Folder" and choose one or more song / video files.



Step3: "Settings" which can be found on the panel of the main window. You can select the backup folder, sub folder create, copy rule and language. You can backup all files you select by clicking "Select all".


Step4: Click the "Start Transfer" button. That's it! The files are now backed up to your computer.



Step5:: If you want to stop, you can click "Stop".



Step6: When the transferring finished, the following window will pop up. It shows that how many files have been done. You can click the Yes button to view the output files.

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