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I have an Ipod that someone gave me years ago for Christmas. I have kept the same music on there for years because I cant' figure out Itunes. It's not user friendly at all and does nothing but frustrate me. Evidently I did it once years ago but forgot.
I am now wanting to update my music and have MP3s already downloaded on my PC and ready to add to Ipod. These MP3s weren't purchased thru Itunes but I've owned them forever and even have them on my phone.
Is there anyway to just dump them in my "Music" app on Ipod without messing with Itunes?
I tried hooking the Ipod to my computer hoping that I could open up the device and see my files within the Ipod so I could perhaps drag my MP3s into the music app/folder where I wanted but there is no place and no files are appearing in the actual device.
Why is this so difficult? One would think with the way people rave about Apple products that this would be easier. Itunes has always turned me off of Apple Products.
Thanks for any help. I've been messing with this for hours and I give up.
ETA: Never mind. I think I finally got it. I put all songs in a playlist in the library, then selected all of them and dragged them to the right and my Ipod pops up and I'm able to drag them into that and the files show up in my Music App. Wow, surely not user friendly....just hit and miss and lots of eliminating this and that. I HATE anything APPLE!!!
Last edited by diddlydudette; 10-14-2014 at 05:19 PM..
Contrary to your notion that this is some conspiracy on Apple's part to force everyone to use iTunes, Apple doesn't enable file transfer directly to iDevices because the music industry doesn't want it to be enabled directly. Apple needs to bend to the wishes of the music industry, since it depends on its products for the iTunes Store.
I have an iPod, but I haven't updated it for several months, so if something has changed recently, I don't know about it. As far as I know, though, you're going to have to load the music onto your PC, then go to your iTunes account and have it converted there so that it shows up in your iTunes library, and then you can sync that with your iPod. Be careful to make sure anything already on the iPod that you want to keep is also in your library because as I recall, it will only sync what is in the library.
Thanks everyone so much for the quick responses. I finally got it to work. Dragged songs into a playlist on Itunes then plugged in my Ipod into the computer and dragged all songs to the right and lo and behold my Ipod icon shows up and I just dump them in. Wow...so not user friendly.
When I put stuff on my iPhone, I drag it to iTunes and it syncs right over. Couldn't be easier.
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