Friends music for i pod touch?

Question

ok so i got an ipod touch and all my friends have different types of music me being a person who enjoys all music would like to get all of this music from everyone, but i heard that if you plug it into diferent computer you will lose all of your music from before.

So how can i download all of my friends music and still keep my own from leaving the ipod?

Answer 1

You are going about this the wrong way. the PC is supposed to be the MAster copy of the information as it sync ITS settings to the ipod. t

the iPod is just the player.

When you PAIR an iPod with a computer it erases all songs on it!!! and deletes pairing with original computer.

Sharing music is also illegal!

You cannot transfer music from an ipod to itunes as Itunes is the MASTER location of the music files. if you NEED to transfer music form your ipod to the computer as you have lost the original you need a 3rd party application (I use Yamipod for mac) but a whole range can be found on www.versiontracker.com and enter ipod transfer in the search box under your operating system.

once you have the utility installed run it and close itunes! connect the ipod (if itunes starts up and asks if you want to pair say NO and close itunes again). then with the utility transfer the songs form the ipod to your hard disk.

Then disconnect the ipod, START itunes... drop the files you have just transferred onto the itunes Library and once the files have been copied into the library you can delete the originals (NEVER MOVE or touch the itunes folder on your computer otherwise you will lose the music let itunes manage it for you).

Now reconnect the ipod and when it asks pair say YES and it will transfer the music to your computer.

if doing this with 2 computers you have to do this on both!!