i'm about to THROW this damn thing out the window!

[lokizmom]

it's a good thing it was free.

so...let's catch you up...

a co-worker of mine got a new iPhone and gave her old SLVR to me that has iTunes on it.

i got a MicroSD for it and synched it with my sister's computer. it has 100 songs on it. i NOW want to take those same 100 songs that i "purchased" with my gift card and put it on *my* computer in my room and be able to synch with this computer as well. well apparently you can't do that with iTunes. can someone please explain this to me? i *paid* for the songs and now i should be able to put them on any computer that i want to! what's up with that?!?!?! i even had to install upgrades to windows so that i could get iTunes on my computer in the first place.

HELLO? Mac-aholics? some answers please? i wont be able to fix it until i come back, but at least i know there will be some answers when i get back home.

Comments

[cheesybunny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's why I don't buy things on itunes... they put a lot of limits on how many copies there are and such.

[jobethfun67.livejournal.com]

What I suggest is this. Get a free program called Idump. Then connect the device as an extra drive and dump the songs onto your computer, then you can import them into Itunes...this is what I did when I had 2 ipods and wanted the music from one to the other.

[lokiz-mom.livejournal.com]

awesome! thanks!

[discodj.livejournal.com]

Apple is like steroids. In the short term it feels good. In the long term, it makes your balls shrink.
Well...not "yours" exactly, but....

[lokiz-mom.livejournal.com]

see that's the reason i don't like apple. but the thing is...the phone was free and had iTunes on it. i *thought* (and that's where i was wrong) that i could move the MicroSD card to my sony ericsson phone, but the phone is not recognizing the chip, so i'm stuck with the motorola SLVR phone. now i just want to be able to synch with *my* computer. i'm going to try the iDump that joan suggested. we'll see how that works when i get home.

[moriyah.livejournal.com]

iTunes set up the program so that you could only have your songs on one computer... the iDump is a good idea since you can't transfer to your comp. Kinda shady though. In the future you can download songs to your comp and should be able to share them with one other device, your phone. From there I recommend burning all music to a cd as that's the only way to get it from one comp to the next.

Sorry for your troubles. iTunes and Macs are crap.

[sausage-boy.livejournal.com]

You made my iPod cry :(

[sausage-boy.livejournal.com]

Can you use WinAmp? If you purchase music that's DRM free- like eMusic, you can full control over where you bring your music. If you're forced to use iTunes and want to rip your CDs you can change the ripping preferences under iTunes. MP3s are easy to move around. Apples m4p format is system specific so you're forced to play by Apple's rules.

[lokiz-mom.livejournal.com]

i dont know?

the phone that i have i got for free and it has iTunes on it. the problem that i'm having is that i already have like 100 songs on the phone, but i can't synch to any other computer except my sister's, and she's not always home. i wanted to install iTunes on *my* computer in my room which i did, but had to do a bunch of win updates to get it done, and then be able to synch my phone to *that* version of iTunes. when i went to link it, it said it was going to erase all the songs i already had...ummm not gonna happen, says i! so tonight i'm going to attempt iDump and then see what happens.

[sausage-boy.livejournal.com]

God, iTunes is such a pain in the goddamn ass.

[lokiz-mom.livejournal.com]

yes but when one receives a free phone with said pain in the goddamn ass programme, one takes it for the team (so to speak) and gets on with the day. ^_^

[sausage-boy.livejournal.com]

Off topic but please text me your email addy and your cell number. I just synced my phone with a blank address book and dumped all of my numbers. Danke.