[P1] 9.2 vs the iPod

[Joe Jones]

What you're doing there is using the iPod as a firewire drive. In order 
to use it as an mp3 player you must use iTunes to put your music on 
there.

Delete the files you have already put on there and go to iTunes and 
choose "sync with iPod" from the menu if it doesn't do it 
automatically. If you have more music than you have space on the iPod 
then turn off auto sync and drag music (or playlists) over to the iPod 
manually.

The iPod will appear in the iTunes playlist window near the top 
underneath the Library. This is the only way to get music to appear in 
the iPod's playlist - however, you will not see the mp3s on the iPod 
when you look at it in the Finder (they are stored in a hidden folder 
on the iPod's HD which is relatively trivial to access but deters the 
average user from sharing his mp3s with a friend).

Joe

On Thursday, Aug 28, 2003, at 15:17 Europe/London, 
bob.virzi at verizon.com wrote:

> Major bummer.  My daughter just picked up the new 3rd gen iPod, and it 
> doesn't play well with my 9.2 iBook.  To add insult to injury, it 
> worked fine with my son's Windows PC.  =8-0
>
> First, I'm not sure why it doesn't work.  If you drag over MP3s they 
> appear on the hard drive, but don't show up in the playlist.  Is it 
> just something as simple as a missing .mp3 extension?
>
> But this is an iBook list, so my real question is if I have to go 
> ahead and upgrade my dual firewire iceBook, can I just go pick up the 
> CD at compUSA and convert?  I guess I was due anyway, so I'm wondering 
> what is the least painful way to switch over.
> 		-Bob
>
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