Ipod Touch ~ keeps wiping music when I move computers.

Triker

Hi all *strangled voice* any pointers on how I can sort this out.:o

My itunes account is linked on my little laptop eeepc thang. This has no CD drive.

I've bought tunes from itunes and today I thought I'd try to be [STRIKE]stupid [/STRIKE] clever and download my cds from the house computer, tried to sync but it says in order to put the cds from the house computer then the itunes stuff has to be deleted.


Tried to be [STRIKE]stupid again[/STRIKE] clever and downloaded a program called Touch Copy in order to salvage my itunes stuff. Saved my originally tunes onto a file on the house computer. Can't work out out how to get them from the file to the itunes account or my ipod.


Then had another bright idea and got eeepc and plugged in ipod, thinking I'll be able to sync from orginal 'puter and all will be well.......result......nah. Again itunes bit says in order to sync all will (cds) be lost again.:wall:

Any ideas of how I can retrieve my music and download my cds and get my music from them too, without my head exploding.... purlease.:D

timbim_2

You need to plug it into iTunes and select the option from the options page to manually manage the music.

Triker

timbim wrote: »

You need to plug it into iTunes and select the option from the options page to manually manage the music.

Ok will give that a go. Thank you.

Triker

Well I did that but cannot for the life of me get the blasted thing to sync all my itunes back onto my ipod, just can't work it out.:o


When I uncheck it I get this message,

Are you sure you do not want to manually manage all your music and video.....all existing content will be replaced with the content of your itunes library.

So it appears that I can have either my cds or itunes but not both....or am I missing something glaringly obvious.:o:o:o:o

gaming_guy

Triker wrote: »

Well I did that but cannot for the life of me get the blasted thing to sync all my itunes back onto my ipod, just can't work it out.:o

untick it, sync it and tick manually manage music again should do the trick

Triker

*Sigh* thanks for the suggestions, have got my original itunes tunes back but its wiped the downloaded cds. Never mind, will try again tomorrow to find a way to sort this out.;)

M4RKM

ideally, you want to have everything on 1 computer... i'm not actually sure if you can sync manually over 2 computers.

as you've ripped the cd's you could drag these from one computer to another via your local network.. (or the other way around)

Marty_J

Triker wrote: »

*Sigh* thanks for the suggestions, have got my original itunes tunes back but its wiped the downloaded cds. Never mind, will try again tomorrow to find a way to sort this out.;)

When it says you will lose all your music, it means the music on the iPod, not in iTunes. You can't change how you sync your iPod without wiping all the music stored on it. So when you change to manual sync, it will erase the music on your iPod. After it has done this, you can then add the music back from iTunes. You add music by dragging any song(s) you want to your iPod in the devices menu on the left hand side.

This might make things a bit clearer.

prowla

If you have it with the un-ticked "manage music automatically" options, then all you do is plug in your iPod and drag your songs from "Music" in iTunes onto your iPod.

lemontart

is there anyway I can download all music on ipod to itunes as I am having similar probs and do not what to have start from scratch riping cds onto new computer as 360 songs currently on ipod

Bowling_4_Gold

lemontart wrote: »

is there anyway I can download all music on ipod to itunes as I am having similar probs and do not what to have start from scratch riping cds onto new computer as 360 songs currently on ipod

What iPod are you using? You will need to download some 3rd party software to do this, and this is based on what iPod you are using.