This depends on a number of things. 1. whether the music was synched using your Maverick MacBook 2. or the music came from another iTunes installation such as one on a PC. 3. If it is music you have bought on iTunes.
If it music synched from your Maverick computer it is already there. If it is music you have bought on iTunes you can download it onto any of your max 5 signed in iTunes installation but you need to amend settings to allow this - If it is from another iTunes installation on another computer then this is more complicated. If you are asking if you can use your iPod to transfer music from one computer to another like a USB drive this is not normally allowed and is certainly actively discouraged by Apple. I think there may be some unofficial Mac apps which can help but you will have to buy these. From what I have seen on their web sites Apple do not want to support this and all the messages I see on their sites stress that you should never regard your iPhone/iPad/iPod as a backup storage device. You should never consider it possible to transfer music content back off these devices. There are 2 reasons for this. Firstly Apple do not want their devices to support a potential function of music piracy. They say that on every iTunes library you should recreate your library using original sources CDs external drives etc. Secondly and more cynically, they want you to pay for this kind of flexibility through something called iTunes Match. the easiest way to achieve what I think you want is probably to subscribe to itunes Match for £21.99 for at least a year. This allows you to upload your entire iTunes Library into the cloud and can then download or stream it onto a specified number of devices, including your MacBook. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke Sent: 09 March 2014 23:01 To: OS X & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Transferring Music to Mac I have music on the iPod Touch which was transferred via iTunes but someone did that for me, can I sinc the iPod touch music to the Mac? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Griffith" <d.griff...@btinternet.com> To: "'OS X & iOS Accessibility'" <mac-access@mac-access.net> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 8:24 PM Subject: RE: Transferring Music to Mac > You can play music from an external or internal drive. > > You do not have to use iTunes to play Music on the Mac. In some ways > using > VLC as your default music player is more straightforward and less of a > learning curve . > Google VLC to download the free player from Videoland. > You can also create folder playlists and play other media types with VLC > including DVDs. > > However if you want to transfer Music to a iPhone or iPad you really need > to > get to grips with itunes. This is also true for things like podcasts etc. > There is a learning curve to iTunes so I suggest you should not expect to > understand it all in an hour but instead take it slowly. A tip on this > list > that Esther gave me is the use of the VO J shortcut to jump to relevant > sections of the program. > > I would also personally recommend column browser view. > You can make iTunes work but unless you have used it on other platforms it > does take a bit of getting used to. > > I use a combination of VLC and itunes for different functions. 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