iPods & MP3 players

[JennH08]

My husband and I both have ipods with music on them, we just got rid of the desktop that I was using with my itunes though. Now I would like to be able to hook up my ipod to his itunes on the laptop. How can I do that without erasing any of our music?

[Nokia]

Is the music on your iPod purchased through iTunes?

[JennH08]

Some of it might be but most of it was cds I had and when I got my ipod I put my cds on to it and got rid of the cds..

[Nokia]

Here you go.

[Neihn Valued Contributor]

I posted this in another thread as well. There is a app called iFunBox which can be found here. Its free and will allow you to pull all the songs from your ipod. However given you did not mention what iPod you had it may not work. I have personally used it with iPod Nano's (Current Generation), iPod Touch, and my iPhone with no issues. I hope this helps you more then a "let me a google that for you" post.

[Langdon]

ok i have the same kinda question. last summer we got a new PC and my younger sister started the itunes on the new computer. so i used my external hard-drive to transfer my music. but now there are all those stupid little exclamation points. and i just bought a macbook pro and a new itouch so i want to transfer my music over right this time.  so how do i do that?

[John-BBY Community Connector]

Hello Langdon,

One of the more frustrating things about iTunes is that it doesn't know how to find a file if it thinks it has been moved.  If you have permanently relocated your music to the external hard drive and then disconnect it from the computer, the iTunes library will display exclamation points because it can no longer find the files.  To resolve this, your music library will have to be copied to each computer on which you want to play music.  Once that's done, you can drag your music folder into the iTunes Music window and it will either create a new iTunes library database, or update the existing one, putting an end to exclamation points.

I hope this helps!