Windows 7 - Using Itunes And An Ipod

If you're switching to Windows 7 and you have an iPod you may be wondering

, is it compatible? The answer is yes but there are restrictions. This article aims to steer you through the pitfalls of using an Apple product with a Microsoft operating system.

First thing you'll find you can not do is upload your songs onto the player from the Windows Media Player. You have to download the iTunes program made especially for Windows and then load your music onto iTunes to the transfer to your iPod. The same is also true if you wish to transfer your music from your iPod to Windows Music Player, it's a no go.

What music files can you put onto your iPod that are on your computer? The iPod will accept MP3's, so if you have lots of those your in luck. If you have Windows Media files or another codec you will need to convert them to mp3 first. iTunes will convert WMA files to Apple's AAC format for you, which is useful.

Usually you cannot plug your iPod into two different computers without iTunes making a fuss and deleting all your files on the player first. So these are the main difficulties you will face, there are ways to get around them once you get familiar with how things work.

So here's how to get MP3 files onto your PC that are on your iPod but not on your PC. Make sure that your iPod is disc enabled. When it's synced to iTunes double click the name of your iPod under devices (on the left side). Now your iPod is acting like a mini hard drive. Double click on it and a window called the iPod Control Music Folder should open. You may need to allow hidden files to be viewed (do this using tools option in the menu bar). Once you see the files you want copy and paste them to your PC or drag and drop them. This is a nice little feature that gets around the limitations of only being able to sync the iPod with one PC at a time.

I hope you have found the info given in this article useful.

by: Brian Armatige

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