Ipod trouble, can you help please ?

Question

hey earlier this afternoon my computer crashed as they do be it deleted all of my itunes music so i put all my music back onto i tunes but my cmupter donsn't recodnise my ipod saying it can only sync with one itunes at a time but that one itunes was that one so i need to ask can i sync my ipod with itunes without deleting all of the song off that i had on there because atm i cant put any new songs onto my ipod

HELP! ty ty

Answer 1

those brand names suck. i have a sony walman and it  wrks perfectly. it has everything a iPod does, it's just smaller. it looks just about like and iPod, just a diff. brand.

Answer 2

Your computer has lost the paring record with the ipod when it crashed.

you MAY have lost all your music unless you backed up the contents of the itunes folder. The computer Itunes is the master files store and music organiser - the ipod is only a slave device to the itunes.

This MAY work but if you make one mistake you'll lose everything (this assumes you havenot paired the ipod to the computer)

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

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.

I suggest copying the contents of the "iTunes Music" folder on your old computer onto the new one by USB hard disk, USB Flash memory or DVD-r

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.

In future I recommend buying a USB powered Hard Drive for backups of you movies, pictures, documents and music just in case you have another crash then you limit what you lose.