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| From | jchasin@nyc.rr.com |
| Subject | Re: iPod question |
| Date | Thu, 11 May 2006 10:35:18 -0400 |
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From: Jaimie Vernon <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com>
> I'm not against the system per se, but if you can't easily move
> the contents
> around to save them elsewhere just in case of a tragedy then it's
> rolls and
> bagels that you can't eat.
Jaimie, iPods run from iTUnes, and what you should be doing is keeping
your music in iTunes, and backed up on another drive (which I do.)
The thing is, you can't think of the iPod as the place you store your
songs; its a place you put them FROM the place you store them.
What happened to me-- my hard drive and back-up drive crashing at the
same time-- is something between a freakish act of nature, and
stupidity on my part (because I suspect I had a power surge that
got 'em both; note to self, "Unplug the back up drive when not in
use!") But otherwise, all I needed to do was plug in my back-up
drive, drag the iTunes music folder from that drive to new internal
drive, and voila! Good as new.
It IS iconvenient that you can't go from iPod to computer, but I
believe this was something Apple had to do in order to do business
with music companies (selling songs via iTunes.) The record labels
didn't like the idea that I could come to your house, and you could
take 7,000 songs off my iPod with no muss or fuss.
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