What Brian says is correct. I hate DRM for this kind of crap. If I own it, I wanna put it on my laptop or desktop, but Apple won't let me.
I bought and paid for some music while on the road last month. Cool, except I can't copy it off my Ipod to my desktop at home even though I bought and paid for the stuff from iTunes. They want me to only have it on my laptop, even though as Brian says, it says in the legalese it's ok for use on up to 5 PC's. sigh I used the Freeware app called Sharepod. You simply put it on the root of your Ipod, and then when you run it thru Explorer using the drive lettter your iPod shows up as, it lets you copy your music where you want it to go. >>Short answer, no with a but :) >> >>The DRM'd music from iTunes is authorized for up to 5 computers. Once >>she reformats, from what I have experienced iTunes will treat it as a >>new machine. So she will be able to play them, although the best >>solution is to go into iTunes and "Deauthorize Machine" beforehand to >>prevent wasting a spot. >> >>The problem is that one of the DRM limitations that the labels forced >>was that songs could not be copied from an iPod back to a PC. This is >>to prevent me from taking my iPod to your house and giving you all my >>music. So if she attaches the iPod to her reformatted machine it will >>say something like "this iPod is linked to another computer, wipe and >>sync with this machine?" which is a NO. That will erase all the >>data. >> >>The solution is to use a 3rd party iPod software utility like one of >>the one listed here: >>http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/ipod-software-windows/ >> >>I haven't really tried any of them so I am not sure which is the best >>but I'm sure with some googling you can find something cheap/free that >>will let you transfer the files off. -- JRS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please remove **X** to reply... Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
