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Elle


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Sorry, kids.  I know this should be in tech but I wanted it to get as much traffic as possible and the tech section is soo slow especially on the weekends ...


So a friend let us borrow her Ipod so we could share some music, so I brought it home and plugged it in.  It shows all the music she has, but all the songs are greyed-out and unselectable.  I tried downloading the free trial of Anapod, but it doesn't recongnize that I have an Ipod plugged in, and asks me to update the Ipod so it can congfigured in a way that it can recognize it - I don't know if that will screw up the settings for her, so I'm afraid to tell it 'okay'.


Halleybird posted a little while back that one of her techy students said that you should be able to plug your Ipod into another computer and tell it you don't want to make that your home library, and as long as it had Itunes your music would transfer.  I don't know why that's not working and how my computer knows that this Ipod isn't mine ... ?


Help!  Please?



-- Edited by Elle at 13:05, 2006-01-21

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I'm not sure if this is what you're trying to do, but read this and see if it helps:


http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93195


Otherwise, just dig around Apple Support pages and you should find your answer.  HTH!



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Elle


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Well, I don't think you're technically supposed to be able to plug in your Ipod and take songs off of it - if Apple had enabled that feature, they wouldn't make any money because one person could download music and then pass around their Ipod for everyone to rip music from, ya know?


I think the instructions you linked would work if multiple accounts on the same computer had different music in each account and wanted to share, so everything is already on the computer in the first place.  Right now, the music we're trying to get is only in someone else's Ipod, not on our computer because it was loaded onto the Ipod from another computer.  Does that make sense?  The files aren't on our computer to share.


The Anapod program is saying that it can't find an Ipod plugged in, and to run the restore function which will properly initialize the Ipod so Windows can recognize it as a drive ..



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Yep, what you're saying makes sense, and the more I read on Apple's website..I don't know how you do it or if you even can?  It's considered illegal and you're right - Apple would never make any money.


Sorry I can't help more, but let me know if you figure out how to do it.



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i don't know what anapod is... i know that when you have sharepod on an ipod anyone can get music off of it..

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If it wants you to restore the iPod that means return it to factory settings and then upload the new version of the software. You're supposed to do that every so often with your iPod and then reload the music onto it. You probably have a newer version of the software that doesn't match up with her iPod. I think you're just going to have to cut your losses on this one. If you restore it it'll wipe all her music so you couldn't get it anyway.

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Elle


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What's Sharepod?


ETA:  Okay I googled Sharepod - looks like a cool program!  Only I really don't want to do that, since it will put the program on my friends Ipod so I think I'll pass. 


If anyone has experience using Sharepod, couldn't I technically put it on my Ipod, and give it to my friend to hook up to her computer and sync up my Ipod?  Then couldn't I bring my Ipod back and connect it to my comp and then use the instructions on the Sharepod site to pull the files off my Ipod and install them into my Itunes?  Would that work?



-- Edited by Elle at 13:46, 2006-01-21

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elle, (as fas as i know), that would work with sharepod.


 



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