Rex, I have aquestion that relates to this, my son has a new ipod, and has a windows laptop(toshiba). We have only mac, so how do you transfer the music files between the mac and pc. Are they compatable? Should he set up a new music store account to work with the pc laptop or use our account that is on our mac? Thanks for any input. Mike Robertson
-----Original Message----- From: Rex Baldazo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Aug 17, 2004 11:49 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: Half-price downloadable music Real Networks has temporarily slashed the price of music from their online store, and formally launched the version of RealPlayer that supports the iPod: http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5312143.html I have no idea if this works with the Mac version of RealPlayer, I can however confirm that it works with the PC version (I use an el-cheapo Windows PC as my iTunes/iPod machine because it's faster and cheaper than a low-end iMac would be). The downside--iTunes has a nasty habit of removing any music files it finds on the iPod that weren't placed by iTunes itself. So it tends to erase the music files you transfer using RealPlayer. However you can then just re-copy all the files back over from RealPlayer. --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
