Could someone please tell me how I can download music from iTunes on my girlfriend's iMac?

Question

I have plugged my iPod 30Ghz into her usb port and her iTunes program didn't even acknlowledge that it was there. I have no problem downloading songs from my PC, but for some reason a product made by the very same company as the iMac is not recognized.........why? The reason I want to download songs from her computer is that her's is the only one online at this present time and I can access the iTunes music store from there.

Answer 1

The person above me isn't quite right. If I plug my iPod into my sister's Mac, it will see it just fine, and give me the option to download her music library in place of mine (note that you can't just download a few songs, and you can't upload - you have to replace everything that's on there with the stuff from the other computer). But the difference is that I have a Mac too. Your iPod is formatted for Windows, so for a Mac to see it, you'd have to download some special software and reformat the iPod. After that, your PC wouldn't see it unless you reformatted it back to the Windows format.

iPods aren't effective for sharing music anyway since you can't download without replacing everything, and you can't upload at all without special software. What you can do, however, is use your iPod as a firewire drive (so it'll show up on the desktop rather than in iTunes), and move the files onto it (note that you won't be able to play them on the iPod at this point). Then put them on your computer, load them into iTunes (or whatever you use), and sync your iPod with your computer. Alternatively, you can burn the music on a CD and upload it to your computer. Or, if you're on the same local network, you can turn iTunes filesharing on and use OurTunes (Mac) or MyTunes (Windows) to download the songs to your hard drive.

Answer 2

The reason you can't download/upload to another person's itunes is because apple made a "copyright" type thing to prevent people from sharing files. In other words, your itunes recognizes your ipod because of that serial number on your ipod. Your girl's itunes doesn't have your ipod number on it, so it wont "talk" to your ipod. You can thank recording artists for this and punk @ss companies like apple to make things difficult. Your best bet to get the jamz from your girl is to burn a cd with the music and transfer it to your computer and then transfer from your itunes to your ipod.

Answer 3

you'll get the music from everywhere (eg acquire from any the position or positioned on your computing gadget from cd) you extremely prefer to acquire itunes with a view to sync the music you get onto the ipod. Its ordinary to apply.. notwithstanding the important element is you do not ought to purchase your music via itunes... any music report you get from any source will be switched over and positioned onto your ipod making use of the itunes synching.

Answer 4

All online commercial music sites use DRM therefore they are all a rip off, the best way to own music is to buy the cd, then you can do whatever you want, especially itunes is bad.