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under par
27th-February-2007, 04:05 PM
The saga continues

got my new tower now and an Ipod with 800 tracks on.

just downloaded Itunes and of course the library is empty on the pc and it tells me that I cannot put the tracks from my Ipod onto the pc:angry: :confused:

Is their a solution to this dilemma....

How do I get my music into my Itunes library???

clevedonboy
27th-February-2007, 04:13 PM
iTunes won't let you do it AFAIK but you could try iPodRip for Windows (http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/software/ipodripwin.php) (there is a MAC version as well)

David Bailey
27th-February-2007, 04:13 PM
Is this a Vista thing? I think Vista doesn't work with the current iTunes - you need a special download.

There's more information here:
T3 - Vista + iTunes = Headache (http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/general/general/vista__itunes__headache)

DD+
27th-February-2007, 04:13 PM
I've got the same problem too...please help us!!!!!!

Tiggerbabe
27th-February-2007, 04:17 PM
I seem to recall you did a back up from your old pc?

Can you not copy the music across from your back up? :)

TurboTomato
27th-February-2007, 04:34 PM
I seem to recall you did a back up from your old pc?

Can you not copy the music across from your back up? :)

Yep you need to do that - iPods prevent transfer back to PCs to stop people illegally copying music.

You could also use the ripper, but I have no experience of that :)

killingtime
27th-February-2007, 04:49 PM
iTunes won't let you do it AFAIK but you could try iPodRip for Windows (http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/software/ipodripwin.php) (there is a MAC version as well)

I used the mac version for someone to get their music collection back after their PC drive failed. Seemed to work fine.


I seem to recall you did a back up from your old pc?

Can you not copy the music across from your back up? :)

That would be the best way. Actually you can copy the library information across too and it will restore all the information other than the "created" date IIRC.

ducasi
27th-February-2007, 05:09 PM
To get music off your iPod, I recommend XPlay (http://www.mediafour.com/products/xplay/). It has a free trial.

But as countless other people have said – isn't that what your backup is for? ;)

Dreadful Scathe
27th-February-2007, 05:22 PM
Yep you need to do that - iPods prevent transfer back to PCs to stop people illegally copying music.

I thought it was to inconvenience people !! :) (insert rant of your choice here)

TurboTomato
27th-February-2007, 05:35 PM
I thought it was to inconvenience people !! :) (insert rant of your choice here)

That as well :na:

under par
27th-February-2007, 06:00 PM
You guys are so good to me :love: :worthy: :hug: to all of you.

I am slowly getting my new computer into some semblance of order:yeah:


But I could never have done it without you:cheers:


THANKYOU


Just wait till the next problem arises give me 5 minutes:whistle:

spindr
27th-February-2007, 07:57 PM
I thought it was to inconvenience people !! :) (insert rant of your choice here)
There's a nice review of how itunes drm works (http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/2A351C60-A4E5-4764-A083-FF8610E66A46.html) -- that might explain things a bit.

SpinDr

Dreadful Scathe
27th-February-2007, 08:24 PM
whats with all this "authorizing" computers, I assume you can install windows then itunes on vmware and move itunes onto any machine you like running vmware , including linux, without running into any problems ? anyone tried ?