How can i tranfer multiple songs from my library into my Ipod without having to drag one by one?

Question

can i do it all at once like if i have 300 songs in my library? and how long would it take? its such a hassle doing it one by one and i wondered if there was and easier way

Answer 1

Hello..

(thanks for the best answer:-))

Yes, there is simple way. Two actually.

1. simply open in your iTunes window list of all songs you have - click on "music" upper left corner... You can sort it any way you want by clicking on the name of the column on the top - like by name, or album or whatever. Then press and hold CTRL key on the keyboard and click by mouse on every song you wanna transfer (If all 300, then click on first song, press and hold SHIFT key instead of Ctrl and scroll down to the last and click on that last - that will mark all of them). Then move the mouse cursor on any of that marked songs, press and hold the left mouse button and drag the whole group of songs on the name or your iPod. They will all transfer.

It takes a bit of practicing, because by trying to "grab" and drag the group, you might accidentally release the mouse button for split second and the group will "unmark" and you would have to do thge selection again:-). but no harm done.

2. In your iTunes library, create playlist (or more) - click in the menu up on file - new playlist, chose name... then drag songs you want into that playlist... After you done, grab the playlist with mouse (+left mouse button) and drag that playlist (one or more) onto the iPod name. All songs in that playlists and the playlist itself as well, will transfer onto the iPod.

Depends on the speed of your computer and if you have USB2 rather than USB1, 300 songs might take about half an hour to load on the iPod. +- a few minutes I guess.

One more thing for your previous question - program Media Jukebox (free)

http://www.mediajukebox.com/

lets you to move songs in and OUT of iPod easily - better than iTunes. The only tjhing is - iTunes change NAME of the actual file - like "madonna - Trueblue.mp3" will become something like "ZOAN.mp3"... BUT the actual ID tag inside the file is unchanged, so if you use Media Jukebox to transfer music FROM the iPod, you will have files like that ZOAN.mp3 on your computer..., but windows media player will show proper names and singers of those songs, so it should not matter to much.

Another program is Media Monkey (free as well)

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

Which SHOULD do the same, but that one I have not try yet... (I will though:-))

Have fun

Johnny