I got my boyfriend an ipod mini as a gift. He set it up initially on a mac laptop. Now he has a pc laptop (he switched jobs, and always has whatever is the standard for that office…

...obviously I am new. If this question is already asked to death, please just point me in the right direction. Thank you.

I would have thought you'd just have to reformat it using the ipod software: http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/ Or perhaps reformat it using Windows and then do the ipod softwar…

Unless there's something special about the mini (and I don't think there is) you just install iTunes and the iPod software on the PC and plug in the iPod. It should walk you throug…

Thanks for the help thus far. We are going to try again tonight. However, I am wondering: Will he lose anything that is currently on the ipod? He has it 2/3 full of songs, and wa…

Yes you will lose everything on the iPod, and I myself can't point you to the software but I'm sure there are ways of pulling off the existing songs to be later reinstalled.

First, thank you. I did a search of the forum, and a google search to find some shareware or software to purchase in order to copy the music library to our new pc laptop (as a rem…

I'm not sure that you can extract the music when going from Mac to PC, because the Mac uses a different disk format than the PC. It might be best to see if you could borrow a Mac j…

The ipod can be used with a windows machine. I used a shareware program which I forgot the name which allows you to read a mac formatted drive in windows xp. Then I used a free uti…

Thank you very much jaydon34, and I think I have a plan now. In the meantime, I got an email from a software company that has a product called CopyPod, which must be purchased. I…

Before trying to use any iPod on a PC, you must install the driver that comes with the iTunes disc. You can also download it from Apple if you don't have an iTunes disc handy. It…

i just bought a black 30 gb ipod video, becuase i have tons of tunes that ive downloaded from napster, but napster says that i need "napster to go" and a compatible mp3 player, whi…

You should be able to put any MP3 on your iPod.

The iPod doesn't work with napster. Check the faqs on the napster site for a list of compatible players. Napster is nothing but a glorified streaming radio service, and not reall…

I'm not familiar with the details of napster's service, but I'm pretty sure that napster doesn't use normal MP3s, but rather some other format that supports DRM. If that is the cas…

Wow, are you guys kidding? You pay for a music service, and then you don't even get to keep the music? That is horrible. www.itunes.com <---go there.

Quote: Originally Posted by Heavy Fluid Wow, are you guys kidding? You pay for a music service, and then you don't even get to keep the music? That is horrible. www.itunes.co…

Actually Napster sells music in the same way as Apple does, but they also offer a subscription where you can download and play an unlimited amount of music if you remain a "member"…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter But there IS hope!!! Burn the purchased songs to an AUDIO CD, then rip them into plain-vanilla MP3s. You are unlikely to experience any d…

Quote: Originally Posted by Mastrap Sorry, gh, you will lose quality that way. You're converting an already compressed format into AIFF, then compressing it again. The loss in q…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter (Frankly, the iPod's audio system is not what you'd call an audiophile's delight at either the high or low ends, and the mids can be kind of…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter Now here's the gimick that makes my method work pretty well: use a VERY high bitrate for the MP3 encoding. I use 320kbps, the highest supp…

Quote: Originally Posted by analogika Actually, the newest generation (5G, nano, and shuffle) sound surprisingly good, especially via the line out. I agree; they're getting b…

Quote: Originally Posted by Mastrap Ahhh, I missed that bit, sorry. Now it makes sense to me. And as analogika says, the new iPods sound pretty sweet. Actually I don't thin…

Dell Dimensions DIM2400 2.6 Celeron Processor hi, I have a 30gb ipodVideo connected to an xp machine through a USB port in the back. When the ipod is plugged in the new harware …