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....
She just... she just did the math.
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tommyrot - Jul 07, 2008 11:42:05 am PDT #6912 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
meara - Jul 07, 2008 11:52:39 am PDT #6913 of 25501
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?
amych - Jul 07, 2008 11:55:09 am PDT #6914 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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.)
megan walker - Jul 07, 2008 11:58:56 am PDT #6915 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
You just saved me so much time.
t /lame
amych - Jul 07, 2008 12:01:37 pm PDT #6916 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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.
megan walker - Jul 07, 2008 12:03:38 pm PDT #6917 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
meara - Jul 07, 2008 12:23:02 pm PDT #6918 of 25501
Excellent! Thank you, amy!
Theodosia - Jul 07, 2008 12:28:46 pm PDT #6919 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
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....
meara - Jul 07, 2008 12:37:33 pm PDT #6920 of 25501
OK, help?
I have wireless. I have a password. regular letters and all. none of this nonsense with forty billion crazy letters and numbers. I has a mac. but my wireless is not an airport. My work computer works on my wireless.
My friend is visiting. Her computer can't figure out how to work on my wireless. It sees it. But only gives us the option of a WEP password, and when we try to type in my password says surely we want a 5 or 13 letter password, or a 40 character hexadecimal blahdiblahblah.... Why?? Is her computer crazy??
megan walker - Jul 07, 2008 12:38:35 pm PDT #6921 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That's funny, since nothing on a Mac seems common-sense to me.