Music here, music there, how do I sync it all? (2) Macs and a PC?
I use a PC at work, I buy iTunes music store music there, rip CDs, and I download podcasts. I have (2) Macs (Powerbook, and Powermac) at home. I buy music on the Macs as well as rip CDs, and rip DVDs.
This is what I want to happen:
My iPod contains everything that my (2) Macs and PC contain in iTunes
My Powermac contains everything that my iPod contains.
How the heck do I manage all of this?
Yeah, I would plug it into the one computer you said and that will be your 'main' music library computer. Then you enable disk use through iPod options (when the iPod is plugged in and iTunes starts up). Now, forgive me but I don't use apples, but you need to find the apple equivalent of "windows explorer" or "my computer" this is the program that lets you see all the files on your computer and all the hard drives. You should see a hard disk that is your iPod. Make a music transfer folder on your iPod, and when you take it to work, copy all your music from the work computer to this folder that you just created. Then when you return home and plug it back into your 'main' music library computer, run that program again to see all the folders and hard drives and go to that folder you just copied all the work music into and move all those files to your music library folder on your 'main' music library computer. Now if all of these computers are apples, then there is no need to make data discs you can do this same thing on the other two computers to get all your music in one library.
Good Luck, let me know how it turns out or if you need more help.
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