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[ifihadahifi]

Dear y'all,

I finally got on board and got an iPod. I want to download my cds but I really don't want to download all of them to my computer's harddrive first. Is there any way I can skip this step and download them straight to my ipod?

Fanks in advance.

[James]

The problem is that the Ipod uses Itunes. And with Itunes, you have to have the music on a hard drive, else any time you go to change out songs, it will erase them if it can't find them on Itunes (meaning on your harddrive). I get around it by having a massive external hard drive that is pretty much for entertainment stuff. But then, all of my ipods are nanos or shuffles, so I tend to change stuff in and out a lot....

[aquaphase]

I agree. Go for the external storage option. External USB drives have been coming down in price for a while and you can pretty much find massive ones. I've got 2 biggies holding my music right now.

[Irock]

The problem is that the Ipod uses Itunes. And with Itunes, you have to have the music on a hard drive, else any time you go to change out songs, it will erase them if it can't find them on Itunes (meaning on your harddrive).

You can stop this by disabling the auto-sync. I know because before I bought the mac my iPod had a bigger harddrive than the PC I was using. It went like this: rip all the CDs I could to the computer, move then all to the iPod and delete them from the computer. Repeat. Repeat. Took me like a month to get all the music onto the iPod.

Regardless of weather you have enough space though, you def have to put the songs on the computer before you can get them to the iPod.

Sari!

[ifihadahifi]

Yeah. That's what I figured.

I'm gonna go Sunny's route until I can swing the few $$ for the external hard drive. I almost picked on up today but we're saving pennies for our trip.

Thanks again.

[Doomius]

I agree with James and Justin, a separet HD for music and misc is the way to go. I went with a second internal HD which I piggy back as a slave drive.