iTunes question

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I downloaded iTunes on my old laptop and that is where all my CDs are burned, where I've made purchases, and so on. If I go to that laptop I can access everything.

I had thought that at least my "purchased songs" I could access anywhere, that iTunes would keep a log of them and if I logged into iTunes from another computer using my name/PW I'd pull them up and could re-load my iPOD. That seems not to be the case? Anyone know differently? Note I am only referring to songs purchased from the iTunes store.

Assuming the above is right, once I got the Touch I have started using their store directly on the Touch itself - no computer. I guess this now means that everything I've spent money on, on that device, is never getting transferred to the new device when I upgrade. This means a lot of money down the drain... I may as well have bought my items on a computer so that it is on a HD and I can repopulate any device.

What do you all do?
 
Elizabeth my experience is that the tunes and podcasts etc are stored on your computer not off site at some iTunes server. They are simple enough to move to the new computer, just burn a disc and transfer them ( I think that should work)

And not to hijack your thread but anyone else who is answering who knows more about iTunes why oh why does it take forever for the program to load when I click on the icon, it seems like it takes forever. that does not happen with other programs.
 
I, too, noticed itunes takes forever to load. Either they are indexing something or they have an enormous file to load.
 
IIRC you can have up to 5 different devices "activated" to use/ store iTunes files.

You might need to deactivate the old in order to use on the transferred new.

I wish iTunes saved a record (the way Amazon does with kindle purchases).

:sad:
 
I'm a relative noobie with iTunes as well. Everything that follow is prefixed with "I think that...."

Due to copyright restrictions, iTunes makes it difficult or impossible to load your tunes onto more than one computer simultaneously. There is a procedure to move the library from one computer to another, but I believe it will erase or disable the original location in order to enable the new location.

iTunes will permit a home network where anyone on your network can access the library on your master computer.

iTunes gets frustrating in how it locks you down. I now have over 160 CDs on an iPod "linked" to an older laptop and the library has filled the hard drive on the laptop to about 80% capacity. I am looking to move the library off to a 1T portable drive I have. I haven't done that yet as I am not sure that it is worth the risk of access problems going forward. Can I then transport the portable drive to another computer, or is the iTunes library somehow tied to the old laptop? If I try to link it to a new 'puter will the laptop lose its connection to the library? Dunno. Inertia has set in, I'm doing nothing on this at the moment.

-Skip
 
Thanks for the input... so I guess I am wasting money by using the iTunes store on my current Touch, because if that Touch ever goes bye bye, there go my songs. I can't move them. What a PITA. I have two Ipods, and they each have different songs on them. There is overlap, but many different songs.

It works OK, as long as the Touch/iPOD are working. Otherwise Apple has you by the short hairs. I hate that I cannot transfer my own music anywhere I want - at least without hassle that is (if at all).

Yes, iTUNES is slow...
 
woodstock said:
I hate that I cannot transfer my own music anywhere I want - at least without hassle that is (if at all).
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Actually, you can transfer the files to anywhere -- I have all mine on an external hard drive. The Laptop I use to manage that drive and my iPod are both activated devices. I have 3 left.
 
I believe that when you sync the touch back to itunes that it syncs the items that you purchased directly on the touch to your itunes on the desktop.

If this is not happening look for a checkbox in itunes that would enable that function.

I think this might work because I purchased a bunch of apps on my ipad and they do sync back to itunes..

Good luck ...



woodstock said:
Thanks for the input... so I guess I am wasting money by using the iTunes store on my current Touch, because if that Touch ever goes bye bye, there go my songs. I can't move them. What a PITA. I have two Ipods, and they each have different songs on them. There is overlap, but many different songs.

It works OK, as long as the Touch/iPOD are working. Otherwise Apple has you by the short hairs. I hate that I cannot transfer my own music anywhere I want - at least without hassle that is (if at all).

Yes, iTUNES is slow...
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Otherwise Apple has you by the short hairs.
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They must have gone into that software development with their goal being to aggravate their customers to the extreme!

I was cursing that program just last night! It won't allow a backup through anything but a CD/DVD....then it denies even that! (the burner is working fine! itunes says it is unsupported!) I even tried to just copy the library from C/Doc&Settgs/Itunes/Itune library - no joy, all sorts of "corrupted, can't copy" messages. Are they thinking, "Make backups very difficult so when their computer fails, they will have to repurchase everything!"

Plus, I notice my program is getting polluted with my wife's music! Both of us have them set to not sync til asked but something is being transferred when we plug in to charge!

We need "Open Itunes"!!
 
woodstock said:
Assuming the above is right, once I got the Touch I have started using their store directly on the Touch itself - no computer. I guess this now means that everything I've spent money on, on that device, is never getting transferred to the new device when I upgrade. This means a lot of money down the drain... I may as well have bought my items on a computer so that it is on a HD and I can repopulate any device.
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This is not the case - When you sync your Touch to your computer, iTunes will load all of the things you bought on the Touch onto your computer. When you get a new iPod, you'll be able to sync everything back down to the new iPod.

Now, if you NEVER synced with a computer - That might be a problem.

With iTunes 10, you can see it happening during the sync. Buy something on the Touch, plug it in to sync, and one of the 5 or 6 steps will be "transferring new purchases from iPod" or something to that effect, and often you'll see the individual song names as it's transferring them as well.

It'll also put those songs into their own playlist under the "Store" category on the left - "Purchased on Woodstock's iPod Touch" (or whatever you've named it).
 
AdamZ said:
And not to hijack your thread but anyone else who is answering who knows more about iTunes why oh why does it take forever for the program to load when I click on the icon, it seems like it takes forever. that does not happen with other programs.
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I blame Windows! :D

Actually, to some extent at least, that IS the problem. iTunes loads nice and fast on a Mac. I think the reason it loads slowly on Windows is simply that Apple probably wrote some sort of "compatibility layer" that allows them to use a single code base to develop both the Mac and Windows versions. Regardless of what platform you're on, such things take extra horsepower when you're running on a platform other than the one originally used for development.
 
flyingcheesehead said:
This is not the case - When you sync your Touch to your computer, iTunes will load all of the things you bought on the Touch onto your computer. When you get a new iPod, you'll be able to sync everything back down to the new iPod.

Now, if you NEVER synced with a computer - That might be a problem.

With iTunes 10, you can see it happening during the sync. Buy something on the Touch, plug it in to sync, and one of the 5 or 6 steps will be "transferring new purchases from iPod" or something to that effect, and often you'll see the individual song names as it's transferring them as well.

It'll also put those songs into their own playlist under the "Store" category on the left - "Purchased on Woodstock's iPod Touch" (or whatever you've named it).
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I just DLd iTunes to my desktop - first time.

How do I get things on my iPOD to synch UP, now?
 
flyingcheesehead said:
This is not the case - When you sync your Touch to your computer, iTunes will load all of the things you bought on the Touch onto your computer. When you get a new iPod, you'll be able to sync everything back down to the new iPod.

Now, if you NEVER synced with a computer - That might be a problem.
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Mine has never automatically synced you have to right click then "transfer purchases to your computer."
 
woodstock said:
I just DLd iTunes to my desktop - first time.

How do I get things on my iPOD to synch UP, now?
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Have you ever synced the iPod to another computer? I got the impression that you had previously been syncing it to your laptop.

If you have, you cannot just sync the songs up from the iPod to the desktop via iTunes - You need to copy them directly from the laptop to the desktop.

Apple has made it so that it's very difficult to "steal" music via an iPod - But that's a concession they have to make to the record labels to be able to sell the music in the first place.

If you have *never* synced your iPod to a computer, you should be able to just plug it in and it'll show up under "devices" in iTunes (on the left-hand side) and you can hit the "sync" button on the lower right, if it hasn't started on its own.
 
ps. I stupidly got subscriptions to a lot of free podcasts... because they were free. I will never listen to most of them. is there an easy way to delete ALL of the ones that come up on itunes before I hook up the iPOD? How about deleting all the crap on my ipod itself? quickly I mean, not one by one....
 
I have a mac mini with an external hard drive. I keep the library of music and video files in a file on the external drive. It is a 2TB western digital drive. I also use this external drive to keep my backups from the mac mini as well as my macbookair. This has worked out pretty well.
 
woodstock said:
ps. I stupidly got subscriptions to a lot of free podcasts... because they were free. I will never listen to most of them. is there an easy way to delete ALL of the ones that come up on itunes before I hook up the iPOD? How about deleting all the crap on my ipod itself? quickly I mean, not one by one....
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Well there are multiple ways to do this. Here is what I would do.

If you want to simply keep new episodes from being downloaded to your computer in the future without deleting old ones simply unsubscribe from them in iTunes. Go to the podcasts page using the left menu. Highlight each main header and click the unsubscribe button at the bottom.

To delete old podcasts from your computer go to the same window and select individual episodes or main headers, right click and select "delete." You can use the "ctrl" and "shift" keys to batcch select for deletion just like in an explorer window. iTunes will ask if you want to delete from just the iTunes index or move the file(s) to your recycle bin. Move 'em :thumbsup:

To clean up your iPod, connect it to iTunes, go to the summary window for your device, click the "podcasts" tab at the top and change your sync preferences. When you sync afterwards all unchecked podcasts will be removed.
 
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Thanks Rich.

I finally fired up the old laptop last night.

I couldn't get it to ID the iPod. Never synched. It started to try - the little green synch display kept re-starting on the iPOD, but it never ID'd in the laptop itunes itself.

DANG IT. I did want to synch it up, and even try to synch my old one which has other stuff on it entirely...
 
Couple of thoughts here... not sure if the Windows version of iTunes has "Home Sharing" feature, but the Mac version does. You can turn it on and the desktop and the laptop can automatically copy whatever stuff you want between themselves, making that chore of burning and moving them, or manually doing a network copy of the stuff and importing it on the other machine, a thing of the past.

As far as the podcasts go, if you highlight a podcast episode and right click, there should be a "delete"... if the warning is still on (on by default) it'll ask you if you want to really delete it -- or actually send it to the Trash folder of the machine -- and you can Shift-Highlight as many as you want to delete.

The feature I'm really wanting from iTunes bad these days, with two iPhones in the house, an iPad, and one iMac (Karen's) and my MacBook, is WiFi synching. It gets old dragging out all the cables to sync the iPhone's "ipod" and the iPad with the MacBook.

Additionally with "Home Sharing" turned on, I'd really rather not boot up the MacBook to sync anyway... allowing the iPhone and the iPad to wirelessly sync with my user login's iTunes on the iMac when it's on, and the MacBook when it's on, automatically... would be perfect. All the devices have WiFi and Bluetooth... why am I still plugging in cables in 2011 to do this, Apple?

Maybe they'll get there eventually.

Anyway, let me know if that helps on the stuff you're trying to do. I'm off to catch a few hours of shut-eye... nighty night.
 
I re-booted the old laptop this morning.

NOW, it's trying to upload the newest itunes, which it never tried last night (months and months since I last turned it on). I am going to re-try a synch tonight.

I did notice "home share" on the laptop, but no idea what it is or how to use it.

more later, thanks!
 
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