Anyone knows?

[Baby Bear]

I have a Ipod shuffle and I bought three new songs to go on it. I have them in my Music library and I want to put them in my Ipod. When I drag the songs name onto the Ipod icon it settles for a moment and then comes on my playlist. Now When it comes on my playlist a small gray dot appears in front of the songs name. If you have a Ipod can u tell me what the deal is plz?

[Baby Bear]

But sometimes mines say..."Disc cannot be read or written from" even when I don't have a Cd in inside.
This happens when I put my songs on the Ipod.

[the wigan warrior]

Right I got a problem with my ipod.... All my songs were on my old PC.. Now I have a laptop, and had to get rid of my old i-tunes.. Anyway, how do I got all my songs off my ipod onto my i-tunes... without uploading loads of CD's again.. :?help

[Glaswiegan Vermin]

i had a prob wit this and my big cus done it in about 3 secs and idunno how he did it

[the wigan warrior]

Right I got a problem with my ipod.... All my songs were on my old PC.. Now I have a laptop, and had to get rid of my old i-tunes.. Anyway, how do I got all my songs off my ipod onto my i-tunes... without uploading loads of CD's again.. :?help

You don't, at least not legally. The iTunes program recognizes which songs were purchased through iTunes and which were copied from CDs or other media. You can copy a CD onto your computer and then onto your iPod, but those songs will not transfer from your iPod to another computer. This is to prevent piracy.

Got a flash drive? You can transfer mp3 files that way if you don't want to reload all your CDs again.

Thats crappy, whats a flash drive? And how do I know if I have one?

[Swan 1979]

A flash drive is a minature drive, about the size of your thumb. It has a USB connection, and plugs right into your computer's USB port. It can be used to transfer files between computers. They have them in sizes anywhere from 250 MB to 4 GB, I think.

If you don't know what it is, you don't have one - but you should be able to get one at an electronics store. We have them here in the US right at the cash registers in department stores, so we can get them anywhere, pretty much.

Flash drives are great and very affordable in Australia there very hand with school assignments and transferring things to other computers.

[Swan23]

This is why I don't have an iPod, it's complicated. And they say "it's easy! anybody can do it!" well, I think they were wrong.  ::)

[Baby Bear]

This is why I don't have an iPod, it's complicated. And they say "it's easy! anybody can do it!" well, I think they were wrong.  ::)

Of course just thinking about it makes it confusing to me.

[the wigan warrior]

A flash drive is a minature drive, about the size of your thumb. It has a USB connection, and plugs right into your computer's USB port. It can be used to transfer files between computers. They have them in sizes anywhere from 250 MB to 4 GB, I think.

If you don't know what it is, you don't have one - but you should be able to get one at an electronics store. We have them here in the US right at the cash registers in department stores, so we can get them anywhere, pretty much.

Oooooh I think I have a purple one.. Not got alot of memory on it though, it will take me ages.

[turnbull_badger]

you can download the songs from limewire and import them into itunes, and before someone says its illegal i can tell you that its not if you already own the CD. My ICT teacher told me once when he was teaching us about copyright laws.

[GramercyRiff99]

you can download the songs from limewire and import them into itunes, and before someone says its illegal i can tell you that its not if you already own the CD. My ICT teacher told me once when he was teaching us about copyright laws.

This is correct. However, it is much more effective to just rip the CD to your hard drive, which is also legal and gets you better quality on the recording. You end up with mp3 files of the music just the same, but without the time spend downloading and the varying bitrates.

[Swan 1979]

you can download the songs from limewire and import them into itunes, and before someone says its illegal i can tell you that its not if you already own the CD. My ICT teacher told me once when he was teaching us about copyright laws.

Lime wire is actually handing out fines up to one hundred thousand dollars so I don't use it anymore.

[GramercyRiff99]

Lime wire is actually handing out fines up to one hundred thousand dollars so I don't use it anymore.

That's the RIAA handing out the fines, not Limewire, and you only have to worry about them if you live in the USA. They don't hold jurisdiction anywhere else.

[the wigan warrior]

Right, How do I delete all the songs off my itunes? I have no idea what i'm doing!