Hi, For #1:
Unless you get into some non-iTunes software that can access the Library on your iPod, which, by the way is breaking your license agreement with Apple, this is simply not possible. I don't believe that Apple wants to get into the sharing media business which is essentially what you're asking to do here. Apple created the iTunes Store to allow legal downloads of digital music and has made their license agreements with various labels with this in mind. For #2: One iTunes Library can serve many iDevices, up to 10 I believe. You can sync different playlists, the same playlists, the entire Library or, more or less, whatever combination of these you'd like on each iDevice. Simply use the Music tab of your iDevice to select the items you wished synced with each iDevice. For #3: I don't believe that you can copy the Library files between Mac and PC but it would be no issue at all to copy the media files as iTunes will play the m4a, m4v or whatever media type iTunes normally plays in both platforms. These file types don't care whether you play them from iTunes on the Mac or the PC, just whether you're using iTunes to play them. You'd likely lose all your playlists and such but the actual media would be totally transferable. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-11-19, at 9:31 AM, Gavin Grundlingh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Are there any resources, be they podcasts or documentation, that go into > great technical detail about using iTunes with multiple iOS devices. We've > had basic syncing and software updating stuff, but I'd like to know, among > other things, about the following: > > 1. How to not lose the contents of someone else's iDevice when connecting it > to and syncing it with your iTunes Library. For example, when the message, > "the contents of this iPhone will be replaced with the contents of your > iTUnes library," is displayed, which action should you take to both add > content from your library and prevent the loss of data already on the device? > 2. Whether having multiple iOS devices of the same type necessitates creating > a separate library for each one. > 3. What to know before using the same library on both a Mac and PC, whether > over a network or by physically copying or moving a library from one machine > to the other. > > Regards, > > Gavin Grundlingh > Phone: +27 (0) 83 713-6191 > Secondary Phone: +27 (0) 79 157-2466 > Fax: +27 (0) 86 617-5792 > Email: [email protected] > Secondary Email: [email protected] > Skype: Batworx > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/batworx > Twitter: http://twitter.com/batworx > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
