Thanks for the info, LeN.
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Wolfram - Dec 17, 2008 11:11:43 am PST #8400 of 25501
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Glamcookie - Dec 17, 2008 11:27:56 am PST #8401 of 25501
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
DW ordered red Shuffles and filled them with Christmas music to give as gifts to a few people. Cool, right? Except...
- Her mom's iMac won't let her plug it in as it says it's registered on another computer (DW says she was careful not to register it).
- DW read that any iPod formatted on a Mac won't work with iTunes on a PC (my parents have a PC and are the intended recipients of a Shuffle).
Any advice? We thought this was such a cool gift and it's quickly turning into a large headache.
§ ita § - Dec 17, 2008 11:39:54 am PST #8402 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If she fills it with music and gives it away the recipient is going to be presented with the option of keeping the music or associating the shuffle with the new computer. It's not a computer novice move to copy that music off (well, if shuffles can be used as drives--I've never tried).
brenda m - Dec 17, 2008 11:41:43 am PST #8403 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Her mom's iMac won't let her plug it in as it says it's registered on another computer (DW says she was careful not to register it).
It's not about the registration, I don't think, so much as the library it's sync'ed with. Of which there can be only one.
ETA - seconding what ita said, generally. They probably won't be able to keep the music. That said, a little red shuffle filled with holiday tunes for the season and then wiped in January for general use is not actually a bad gift.
Glamcookie - Dec 17, 2008 11:52:59 am PST #8404 of 25501
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Damn. That seems really weak to me. I understand not being able to move the music off the iPod and into iTunes, but it seems nuts that you can't view what's on the iPod via iTunes and transfer more songs onto it if you want to. I never would have thought they'd not let you do that.
§ ita § - Dec 17, 2008 11:58:11 am PST #8405 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Last I tried you could see what's on the iPod via iTunes, but everything is grey.
I think the assumption is that if you don't synch with the library, the iPod doesn't belong to the computer, so copying new music onto it isn't kosher.
brenda m - Dec 17, 2008 12:04:46 pm PST #8406 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Last I tried you could see what's on the iPod via iTunes, but everything is grey.
On my (older) shuffle you can't do this. It will allow you transfer music that came from iTunes, actually. But for everything else your options are to stick with what you have or wipe it clean.
§ ita § - Dec 17, 2008 12:07:17 pm PST #8407 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I haven't tried it with a shuffle, now that I think about it. I'm not sure where the precise line is with the differences.
Hell, I have no idea where my shuffle even is. Whoops.
DCJensen - Dec 17, 2008 1:57:56 pm PST #8408 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
senuti might help on the iMac.
tommyrot - Dec 17, 2008 4:57:11 pm PST #8409 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.
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