[gebby]

bear with me, this may take a while. you guys have helped me before with this stuff.

bought my daughter a 8gb nano for graduation. she has two libraries on itunes. one small one that shes building slowly on a dell/pc laptop. but the issue im having is she has a larger, older and of course lots of purchased (from apple of course) music on a mac powerbook. that apple laptop is running OSX 10.3.9. and when we try to sync the new nano with the old powerbook, where most of her music is, im being told its not compatible with that operating system and it needs at least OSX 10.4. to be synced.

soooo, do i need to

a. buy a new operating system for my 3 yr old powerbook, which up until now has really done everything and more than ive needed it to do?

b. re build the library from the mac to the pc laptop by use of flashdrives, external drives, or something or other that i know nothing about? and if i need to do this, will my music in "apple form" on the powerbook transfer easily to the dell pc?

c. rip discs from the apple itunes to the dell pc and again, will the music be compatible from one system to another. this step will be time consuming and very frustrating im sure.

or

d. fly out to san francisco and congratualate steve jobs on making his systems disposable and obsolete, so after his marketing department forces you to buy new, must have products, you need to upgrade all your systems to make them compatible. i will do this after punching him in the neck.

thanks in advance.

 

[FredyFluke]

D gebby....

 

[Gaucho]

Well first thing first.

Look at the requirements mac has for OSx 10.4
Does your laptop meet them?
This seems to be a problem with Macs....you thought Bill Gates was Money Hungrey......Mac is a killa!!! They will suck you dry!!

If the music is on the old mac you should be able to transfer it or buy a Itune transfer program that will take all the music of an ipod and dump it on to any PC you want.
If you have a apple account you should be ok.

 

[bluto1899]

I use an IMac from 2001, and I've run into the same OS problems. I've had to update twice just to keep the computer functioning properly. The most recent upgrade came when I purchased TurboTax in February, and it wouldn't work on the version of OSX that I was running. I was able to borrow my Father In-law's disks for 10.3, but my hard drive was so full, I had to do a custom install in order to pick what I needed and didn't need. Now, I really can't download anything, and other than adding an external hard drive, I probably have to upgrade to a new Mac.

If I were you, I'd spend the $130 and upgrade to the latest version of OSX. Trust me, it's sucks laying out that kind of cash when you really aren't having any problems to start with, but Mac is notorious for making thier own systems obsolete to force users into upgrading, so in another year, there will be less and less that your current OS will be able to do.

I have my own issues with Mac, like when an automatic upgrade to Itunes rendered my CD Burner useless. Mac decided they wanted people to buy Mac CD Burners, so they coded Itunes to not allow burning to non-Mac burners. Not only was I unable to burn songs which I had already purchased from Itunes, but I couldn't even burn songs I had copied from my own CDs. I've since found a way around it so it works for me, but man did that tick me off.

 

[Roccus7]

Gees, I thought Steve Jobs was God to you Macolytes!!!

You mean the Holy Stevie is fallible?

I love it when there's trouble in Paradise!!

Serves you all right to getting your Maclobotomy in the first place!!

 

[MakoMike]

Why do these discussion always seem to degenerate into a Intel vs Mac debate? Computers are tools. do we argues over whether a craftsman or snap-on wrench is the better tools for a job?

 

[Gaucho]

It's not Intel vs Mac.....it's Microsoft vs Mac.

I have an older Mac notebook that someone gave me.
Thank god I never paid money for this piece of garbage.

oh...the other fight is Intel vs AMD.

I was a big AMD guy til Intel blew AMD away with duo core2 and quad core.

Intel ROCKS!..

 

[fish4me]

Isn't it Microsoft vs Apple and Windows vs Mac?

 

[MakoMike]

O.K. maybe I should have said Mac vs Microsoft or intel vs motorola. But the point is still the same, in some cases one is the better tool for the job.

 

[Gaucho]

How to fix your Mac.

 

[Tizod]

Without using a hack you cannot sync her Ipod to two different ITunes libraries.

So, if you got it to talk to the Mac then it would not sync to your PC.

When I say hack I am talking about using one of the software apps that are out there that allow you to get around this built in limitation with ITunes which is to prevent pirating.

My suggestion would be to pick which machine you want to have her sync her Ipod too on an ongoing basis.

Take and external HD (usb) and copy the files from the Itunes folder (/ITunes Music specifically) on which ever machine is NOT going to be the one she uses going forward. Once they have copied to the external drive copy them onto the machine she is going use going forward and import them into the ITunes library on that machine.

Very simple actually.

As far as all the Apple hate...

It comes down to whatever works for you.

I use a Mac at home and a Dell PC laptop for work.




This post edited by MakoMike 11:14 AM 06/10/2010

 

[Koz54]

speaking of itunes, when you sync your ipod device does it sync the whole library? I just recently (last night ) downloaded itunes because my bride got an iPod shuffle from a vendor where she works. I did not really play with it yet and before I go loading a bunch of discs into the ipod library I would like to know if there is a way to upload only parts of the library.

I have a Creative Labs MP3 player (that I love) but it uses different software. It has been acting up lately so I was thinking of making things easier and just getting a large capacity ipod in a couple of months.

While I will listen to anything (other than rap

) my bride is not a big fan of metal or country music.

I would like to know if I can just sync certain parts of the library for her player, and other parts for mine.

It would be good to know before I upload my Johnny Cash and Metallica collection

Probably a stupid question since I have not tried to sync it yet...

 

[Gaucho]

Koz54 wrote:
I would like to know if I can just sync certain parts of the library for her player, and other parts for mine.




No.

Now if you buy a program like Tunes transfer you can put those tunes on her ipod or yours, but not using itunes.

 

[Gaucho]

AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Wednesday some users of Apple's (AAPL.O) iPad have had personal information exposed via a network security flaw, two months after the tablet computer was launched and smashed sales expectations.


ahhhh....somethings never change between At&t and Apple.
Point fingers at each other.

 

[Tizod]

Gaucho wrote:
Koz54 wrote:
I would like to know if I can just sync certain parts of the library for her player, and other parts for mine.




No.

Now if you buy a program like Tunes transfer you can put those tunes on her ipod or yours, but not using itunes.



Yes, you can...they are called Playlists.