How do you transfer music between ipods?

Question

Me and my friend have iPODS and we wanna transfer music to eachothers ipod how do you do that?

Answer 1

It depends on how you built your music collection. If you burned your cd's and created mp3's, then copy your music to a cd or jump drive and have your friend load them into their itunes.

If you bought your music from apple (itunes), then you are limited to what the other two posters indicated.

Answer 2

I think the only way you could do that is to plug each others' iPods into the other computer. iTunes only allows a certain amount of copies to made from songs downloaded off the internet. I think the magic number is 2. Or you could burn it onto a CD and copy it onto the other person's computer and have them download it onto their iPod. Not to be a stick in the mud but keep in mind that copying music for your friend is illegal :)

Answer 3

Install iTunes on your new computer. Then, connect your old iPod to your computer and hold control-shift until it shows up in the iTunes window. From there, set your iPod to be able to be used as a hard drive. Go to "My Computer" and open you iPod as a hard drive. Go to folder options and select "show hidden files and folders." Open up the new folder that shows up called "iPod_Control" and then go into the "Music" folder within that. You'll see a bunch of folders labeled with numbers and such and in those folders are all of music and videos renamed into to four digit alpha-numeric codes. You can just drag these folders to your regular hard drive at this point and all your music and videos will be transfered. You can just select all the folders once transfered, right click, choose properties, uncheck the "hidden" box and then they will all be there and visible. Before you put these files into iTunes, go to "preferences" in iTunes under the "Edit" dropdown menu. Select the "Advanced" tab and check the "keep iTunes folder organized" box. Drag your files in bulk to iTunes now and it should organize, sort, and properly rename all of the music and video files. Now just put these on your new iPod the way you normally would.

Answer 4

do you have itunes on your computer? you can do it that way but unless you have a ripping program for an ipod you can't take music off of an ipod and put it onto your computer. and you can't do ipod to ipod transfers.

Answer 5

use a cd to put the songs on, then swap them and import them into your computer or iTunes, and they will go to your iPod. or u could use a usb port, which is like a CD but u could store anything from your computer on it. hope this has helped!