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I recently purchased an iPod Nano. I was visiting my mother's house and downloaded iTunes on her computer for purchasing songs. Last night, I was at my house and wanted to purchase a couple of songs. I downloaded iTunes and purchased songs, went to sync my iPod and I got a message saying that an iPod can only be synced with one library. Of course, this is on my mother's computer. I went to the toolbar and found an option to authorize my computer, which I did. Is there any way to fix this so I can use my own computer to download songs? My husand and I are going to be moving soon, and I want to be able to use my own computer for this.

2007-03-23 02:22:21 · 5 answers · asked by Lady in Red 4 in Consumer Electronics Music & Music Players

Yes, I'm aware you can only have your iPod synced to one computer, as I already said. Is there a way to change computers?

2007-03-23 09:57:34 · update #1

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Connect your iPod to your computer. If it is set to update automatically you'll get a message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all songs from your iPod. Your iPod should appear in the iTunes source list from where you can change the update setting to manual and use your iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. Also when using a lot of the utilities your iPod needs to be enabled for disc use, changing to manual update will do this by default. Check the "manually manage music and videos" box in Summary then press the Apply button: Managing content manually on iPod

Once you are safely connected there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod. If you have any iTMS purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers has been introduced with iTunes 7. A paragraph on it has been added to this article: Transfer iTunes Store purchases using iPod

The transfer of non iTMS content such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there is a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows. The procedure is a bit involved and it won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's posted in this thread: MacMuse - iPod to iTunes

If you prefer something more automated then there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. This is just a selection, you'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, they are generally quite straightforward. You can also read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes

YamiPod Mac and Windows Versions
iGadget Windows Only
iPod Access Mac and Windows Versions
PodUtil Mac and Windows Versions
iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
TuneJack Windows Only
CopyPod Windows Only

Whichever of these retrieval methods you choose, keep your iPod in manual mode until you have reloaded your iTunes and you are happy with your playlists etc then it will be safe to return it auto-sync.

2007-03-23 02:27:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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2016-10-19 10:09:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Check enable disk usage in iPod preference.

2007-03-23 05:48:22 · answer #3 · answered by JayHawk 5 · 0 0

you can only put songs on your ipod from one computer so restore your ipod and use your own computer.

2007-03-23 02:26:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

you can only have your iPod sync'd with one computer

2007-03-23 04:23:21 · answer #5 · answered by school at home 2 · 0 0

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