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OK, Mac people: So I have a friend, who happens to be a fellow Mac user. Said friend highly appreciates much of the music I have on my computer/iPod.
What is the easiest way for me to get much of this music (some of it purchased from iTunes, some of it not) onto his computer? Legally or not? I am willing to burn CDs, but since it would be quite a number of CDs, if there is an easier method of hooking the computers together, using a flash drive, downloading some program and hooking his iPod to my computer or mine to his, etc etc....without, of course, one or both computers going "THIS MUSIC IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYED ON THIS COMPUTER! STOP! STOP!"
help?
If it's on your computer, and it's stuff you've ripped from CDs (or, you know, downloaded in ways that might not stand up to the bright sunlight of close scrutiny), you can just copy them from your Music folder. If it's stuff that you bought from the iTunes store, you'll have to burn it to CDs in order to remove the copy protection.
If it's on the iPod and
not
on the computer, use Senuti to get songs off the iPod.
The stuff you buy from the iTunes Music Store you have to burn to a CD as regular music CDs, and then your friend has to rip those. The non-iTunes Music Store stuff you can just copy.
x-posty....
OK, that's pretty much what I figured, re: music store stuff. CDs it is.
For non-music store stuff, what's the quickest way to get from one iTunes to another? Most of the stuff in iTunes is under all these folders under music, by artist, so it's kind of a PITA the way iTunes organizes it (love iTunes generally, but not if I'm trying to move music in bulk)--can i move it from iTunes, or just from the root folder?
As long as it's not the protected stuff, you can just drag whatever you want from iTunes to the desktop.
(edit: or to whatever folder, external drive, etc. you want. Which I'm sure you get but I feel a compulsive need to say.)
You just saved me so much time.
t /lame
You're so not lame. I've walked probably hundreds of people through using iTunes, and I can count on my thumbs (with maybe a few extra thumbs) the ones who figured out dragging to the desktop on their own.
What is particularly lame is I had actually figured out that I could drag multiple songs together directly into iTunes
from
a folder, without figuring out the reverse.
Excellent! Thank you, amy!
megan, don't feel bad -- a lot of programs aren't set up to allow you to do that kind of activity in both directions. It's logical functionality, but programmers have their own peculiar sense of what's logical much of the time. One of the reasons that users are so fond of their Macs is because some of this common-sense utiity gets built in from day one....
