ipod upgrade
Sat, Feb 26, 2005My parents were kind enough to give me a 20gb gen 4 ipod for my birthday. This is a nice upgrade from my 10gb gen 1 ipod. I now have a problem to solve: How do I transfer my music from my old ipod to my new ipod? In a perfect world, I could connect both of them to another mac and just drag and drop the files. Hell I’ll settle for using mv to push then across the ether. But aparently this isn’t a valid upgrade path. It seems that Apple would like to to sync my music with my laptop. This was somewhat feasable, if a little redundant, when I had only 10gb on the ipod (not that I did it). With a 20gb ipod and only a 40gb hard drive on my powerbook, I doubt I’ll be synchronizing anything more than contacts and calendars. So where does that lead me, where do I turn. It looks like I’ll be spending some time with PodWorks or some similar application, copying music to my mac and then copying it to the new ipod. fun fUN FUN. I doubt I’m the only person in the world that doesn’t want to use their laptop’s drive to store what their already storing on the ipod.
<update>I found that I could use PodWorks to export all of my music files to the iPod as a disk. I then imported that music using iTunes. After importing I deleted the originally exported files. This of course requires double the drive space (If you aren’t deleting exported music as you import).
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