[demograph68]

Since I have all of my music on the iPod, is it possible to burn a CD from it without copying files back to the hard drive? It would be an immense timesaver for me if I could.

[Randman]

Originally posted by demograph68:
Since I have all of my music on the iPod.

Not sure about the CD, but you do have the music backed up somewhere, right? An external drive or on DVDs? Cuz if something were to happen to your iPod, you'd be screwed, or at the very least, inconvenienced.

[demograph68]

I want to burn them as audio CDs because my HD is absolutely packed.

[chabig]

It's not possible. You need to have the music on a computer to be able to burn it. For the iPod to be able to plug into a CD burner and burn music would require special software on the iPod, and it would allow the easy stealing of music--which Apple won't support.

Chris

[demograph68]

Originally posted by chabig:
It's not possible. You need to have the music on a computer to be able to burn it. For the iPod to be able to plug into a CD burner and burn music would require special software on the iPod, and it would allow the easy stealing of music--which Apple won't support.

Chris

I figured that part out. But isn't their a hack to get it done, similar to iPodRip but with burn support?

[chabig]

No. There is no way to do it.

But if you have a CD burner, you should be able to burn enough files from the hard drive to a CD so that you can then delete them to make room for the songs you want to burn. Then burn the songs, and restore the deleted files.

Chris

[ohm^n]

I disagree.

If you mount the iPod as a firewire hard drive, the music is all there on the iPod. You'll have to use the terminal to open the folder which contains the music. If I remember correctly, it's just prefixed by a .

The music is not arranged nicely like your iTunes Music folder, so the hard part will be locating the songs you want I think. Then you can just burn them using Toast or whatever you use.

Anyway, I know it's possible because when my girl friend went to Europe I took all the music she had on my Powerbook, sync'ed it to her iPod, then dumped all the songs off the iPod to her iBook, imported them to her iTunes library on the iBook, and then re-synced the iPod on that computer.

Perhaps not the time or place for this discussion, and maybe it's preaching to the choir... but no DRM will stop people from making copies.

I mean, please, "it will make it easy to stop people from 'stealing' music"?? How's that? What is to stop me from just mounting the iPod as a firewire drive (or other removable media) dragging my iTunes Music Folder to the iPod, and then mounting it on another computer?

It's just naive to think that DRM is going to have any effect on people whose goal it is to copy the music! The only thing DRM does is get in the way of legitimate fair use.

I see sys-admins in my school computer lab struggling with software copy-protection all the time. It's really sad because they sit there, and they have to fix it, and some student can't use the computer because the software won't register itself. At the same time I know that I could go online and in 5 minutes find a cracked copy of the program that would work just fine.

I don't have my iPod handy right now or I'd post instructions.. BUT

1) Your music *is* on the iPod
2) You *can* access the files directly
3) You *can* burn directly from the iPod if it is mounted as a firewire drive.

Therefore what you want to do is possible.