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I bought my wife an iPod for Christmas and she picked up a second one on
some kind of deal at the Apple Store (maybe a refurb or a return?)
anyway, she has made the spare available to me. I'm only marginally interested, but was wondering if someone with experience with this thing
could answer a question.

Is there a way to copy from my CDs to the iPod and not have to keep a
local copy on my hard drive? With iTunes it looks like I have to have a
local copy as well as the copy on the iPod, and if I delete the local
copy I lose the copy off the iPod. That seems daft to me, and I'm
hoping it's just my ignorance. I've got 20 GB free space on my iBook's
hard drive, and it's a 20 GB iPod... but I use this computer for work
and need to keep the hard drive space open.

The odds of me ever buying anything from the iTunes Music Store hovers somewhere between nil and snowballs in hell. I'm not into downloading
music. It'd just be nice to load all my jazz CDs and Dead CDs onto one
device for convenient listening.
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Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:

I bought my wife an iPod for Christmas and she picked up a second one on some kind of deal at the Apple Store (maybe a refurb or a return?)
anyway, she has made the spare available to me. I'm only marginally interested, but was wondering if someone with experience with this thing could answer a question.

Is there a way to copy from my CDs to the iPod and not have to keep a
local copy on my hard drive?

Yes. The default settings for the ipod have it synchronize to the
iTunes music library on the first computer it mates with.

But that can be easily changed. Connect your ipod to that computer,
go to iTunes preferences, and click on the iPod icon there. Then
choose "manually manage songs and playlists."

Now you can import music into your iTunes music library from CDs,
drag the songs to your ipod, then delete the songs from your iTunes
music library. Furthermore, you can do this for the same ipod on
different computers (as long as they are all macs - and presumably as
long as they are all PCs, though I have no experience with the
lattter).

(I've got a 20 GB ibook myself. My iPod has a larger hard drive than
my ibook!)

With iTunes it looks like I have to have a
local copy as well as the copy on the iPod, and if I delete the local
copy I lose the copy off the iPod. That seems daft to me, and I'm
hoping it's just my ignorance. I've got 20 GB free space on my iBook's
hard drive, and it's a 20 GB iPod... but I use this computer for work
and need to keep the hard drive space open.

The odds of me ever buying anything from the iTunes Music Store hovers somewhere between nil and snowballs in hell. I'm not into downloading music. It'd just be nice to load all my jazz CDs and Dead CDs onto one device for convenient listening.

My situation is similar (though we different tastes in music). I also
use my ipod for listening to news and radio documentaries (via
podcasts) and for listening to books on CD from our local library.

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In article <5n4q0pr85b.fsf@ethel.the.log>,
Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> wrote:

Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:

I bought my wife an iPod for Christmas and she picked up a second
one on some kind of deal at the Apple Store (maybe a refurb or a
return?) anyway, she has made the spare available to me. I'm only marginally interested, but was wondering if someone with experience
with this thing could answer a question.

Is there a way to copy from my CDs to the iPod and not have to keep
a local copy on my hard drive?

Yes. The default settings for the ipod have it synchronize to the
iTunes music library on the first computer it mates with.

But that can be easily changed. Connect your ipod to that computer,
go to iTunes preferences, and click on the iPod icon there. Then
choose "manually manage songs and playlists."

Now you can import music into your iTunes music library from CDs,
drag the songs to your ipod, then delete the songs from your iTunes
music library. Furthermore, you can do this for the same ipod on
different computers (as long as they are all macs - and presumably as
long as they are all PCs, though I have no experience with the
lattter).

<snip>

Thanks, that seems very straightforward. Glad to know it was my
ignorance.
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