At the moment I use a PC. I have all of my music stored on it and I transfer music from my PC to my iPod.
I've just bought a Mac and I am going to transfer all of my music from the PC to the Mac via an external hard drive.
Will I need to format my iPod for it to work to with the Mac or can I just plug it in as normal and manually transfer tracks.
I'm asking this because a couple of people have told me I'll need to wipe my iPod and reload all the tracks back onto it if I change from PC to Mac.
2007-04-03 22:39:44 · 8 answers · asked by chibookoo 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
visit their site, they offer all types of help
apple.com
2007-04-03 22:42:55 · answer #1 · answered by bladderbaghs 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It seems that I am really going against the grain with this answer. I disagree with everyone else and say that you WILL have to re-format your iPod when changing from a PC to a Mac.
I had no computer so used to use a friends PC to update my iPod. I then bought a MacBook Pro and when I connected everything up, it said my iPod had been formatted on a PC and then asked the question on whether or not I would like to re-format my iPod. I obviously clicked "yes" and thus lost all my music files. You should be ok because you will xfer your music files using an external hard drive.
Unless things have changed, I think you will need to re-format your iPod.
2007-04-04 02:32:02 · answer #2 · answered by Mister Man 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, that's not true. A Mac can use PC or Mac format iPods without any problems.
On the other hand, changing from one computer to another often confuses iTunes and it may try to delete all your songs from the iPod and transfer them from scratch. If it does that I'm afraid there's not much you can do but wait for the songs to transfer.
2007-04-03 23:16:47 · answer #3 · answered by iMacThere4iAm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would recommend you go take a look at this site as it is excellent and the best there is for iPod issues, the also have a Q n A part to it and it is for PC and Mac.
http://www.ilounge.com
2007-04-04 00:35:09 · answer #4 · answered by camshy0078 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get carry of itunes. then whilst your performed set up a connection between the mac and ipod. whilst ur related it would paintings and there is not any distinction between witch application proprietors u use
2016-10-20 23:45:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there's absolutely no need to reformat it. The iPod takes care of its own files, it doesn't care what sort of computer you connect it to.
2007-04-03 22:53:14 · answer #6 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah. As long as you have iTunes on the Mac it should be ok.
2007-04-03 23:49:47 · answer #7 · answered by Teshie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope!
2007-04-03 22:45:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋