Matthew George said the following on 5/11/2006 9:29 AM:
> Jaimie Vernon wrote:
> 
>> Just make the songs backwards compatible to my computer and I'm there. 
> 
> They already are.  My previous email doesn't seem to have gone through 
> to the list, but in it I point out that Winamp copies from iPod to hard 
> drive with no fuss whatsoever.  It's incredibly simple.

Right - the MP3 (or AAC) files are the same ones; the problem is that
the ipod itself renames them and puts them in its own directory
structure. itunes on the computer doesn't do that; my collection was
ripped using Exact Audio Copy, then imported into itunes, which
preserved (mostly) the ID3 tags, file naming and directory structure.
Then, when you load the ipod from itunes, it renames and structures
stuff to its own liking. If you use the ipod as a peripheral rather
than the core of your collection, then this works.

- Greg
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Greg Cagle
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