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can my iMac and PB share one iPod?
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if I have a collection on my old iMac on iTunes and I get an iPod can I also plug this into my new Powerbook?
I want to share my music between two macs
I'm just confused on how you can share your songs between multiple computers...
say I use the get a song from iTune's Music Store, I paid my $0.99 - song is now on my iMac does this mean that song can only be played on that iMac and not my PB?
Thanks!
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No and no. The iPod can only recognize one computer at a time. You will be prompted to erase the iPod and load the songs on computer B if it already has computer A's music on it.
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wow that is shocking!
thanks for the reply...
so so I guess I have to just copy my songs over to the PB and use my iMac as back-up
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IIRC, you can do this (or something close) if you don't automatically update your iPod. If you manually update the iPod (connected to your iMac), you can then plug it in to your PB (as an external drive) and play the music in iTunes directly off your iPod (it shows up in iTunes as a playlist with the iPod's playlists nested within it). That sounds much more confusing than it really is.
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Yeah, if you have your iPod set to manually update, you can just listen to the music on it with your powerbook. The only thing is that it won't update the play counts and so forth the main machine when you play things on the iPod, since you're not really syncing them.
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There's an app called iPod.iTunes that willdo what you want
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On the iTunes Music Store question, you can authorize up to 3 computers (I believe). So you can authorize your iTunes on your PB with your account and any ITMS songs you copy over will still be playable in iTunes on your PB.
As far as the iPod goes, everyone is right, you can connect it to a second machine, tell it not to overwrite and set it to manual mode. You can even copy songs on to it from the second machine, but when you sync the iPod with your main machine, they will be deleted.
-b
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get a program called PodWorks. Its great in that you can extract music off your iPod w/ ease and add it to your PB in afew seconds, but if you have it on manual you should also be able to play music from teh iPod to the PB anddd upload songs from the PB to the iPod...but not vice versa.
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