Can I store music on just an iPod, not in iTunes as hard drive is too small!?

Question

I'm asking this for a friend, not myself. (I did have the same problem but simply solved it by buying a new hard drive!!). Unfortunately my friend is a bit short of money at the moment and has been bought an iPod (for Christmas, this is how long it's been going on!) but doesn't have much hard drive space free on his PC.

Basically, he wants to be able to copy tracks from a CD and onto the iPod but then delete the tracks from the PC, freeing up space to rip another CD and transfer to the iPod again.

Using iTunes, each time you delete the tracks from the PC, they are then removed from the iPod on the next sync.

Does anyone know a way round this?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

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Answer 2

You could always try setting his iPod to manually manage music and videos. You'll have to set up playlists on the iPod itself and add music files to them directly from the library, but it might allow you to work around this problem, at least temporarily. In the long run, he'll still have to re-rip all of his CDs if he gets a larger hard-drive, as iTunes won't let you transfer synced music off an iPod unless it's DRM-protected AAC format purchased from the iTunes store.

A less pleasant option would be to encode with a lower bitrate, which will make the files smaller...but make the sound quality suck.

Ooh, I just had a really odd idea. If he is willing to limit himself to less than half of the total capacity of the iPod, he might be able to trick iTunes into using the iPod's drive as the default location for storing the iTunes music folder. That music won't be playable on the iPod when it's stored in this manner, but it should be possible to sync a playable duplicate of everything back to the iPod. The issue here, however, is that you'll have to store two copies of everything to have the entire music library playable on the iPod at the same time.

Answer 3

i believe you can. you just have to drag the songs to the ipod through a windows explorer window. not thru itunes. not sure if you can listen on your ipod. but it does use the ipod as a hard drive.

honestly tho, he should buy some blank cds & burn the mp3s to it. that way he won't lose them, and it won't cause unnecessary wear on the ipod.

also as far as mp3s getting wiped from the ipod when they're deleted from the pc, i think that's a setting in itunes you can change so it won't do that.

Answer 4

surely! i had an same issue (no longer the small not ordinary stress) only that i wanted to save the song archives (I have many many and they take up alot of area on a computing gadget and moreso on a computing device) seperate from the computing device. i purchased a 500 GB Kingston exterior not ordinary stress and save the song there. you should "tell" Itunes the position to fetch the song from, yet it truly isn't any issue if you're even slightly bit computing gadget saavy.