Use an iPod as a USB drive ?

[Marian Petrides]

I'm not sure why this surprises either of you.  Items copied to one's  
HD but not loaded into iTunes won't play in iTunes.  Likewise items  
copied to the iPod's HD as data won't play on the iPod. To play on  
the iPod they need to be loaded onto it from iTunes on your computer-- 
which then allows the iPod's software to recognize them as music  
rather than data.

 >>>you can copy files to an iPod being used as an external disk, but  
can't then play them as tunes.

All you need to do in this case is to ALSO load them onto the iPod  
using iTunes--so that the iPod's software recognizes them as music  
not a data file.

Am I making any sense?  If so, then forget the rest.

Picture the following scenario:
I have an unprotected mp3 file. I copy it as DATA to my iPod's HD. It  
doesn't play on the iPod because it got there as DATA not as a music  
file recognizable to the iPod.  If I merely load that same file off  
the iPod into iTunes and put it back onto the iPod as  
MUSIC, :::poof::: the iPod recognizes it as music.  At this point the  
file is on the iPod in two different forms:  one on the HD as a data  
file and one in music form recognizable by the iPod.  Does this make  
sense?

As for the DRM issue, picture a similar scenario:  Suppose I have a  
protected file from iTMS.  If I Finder copy that file to the iPod's  
HD it will not play--the iPod will see it as data. But if I load it  
onto the iPod using iTunes, it will be music and recognizable as such  
on the iPod.  If I take the data file and load it from the iPod into  
iTunes on a different Mac (or a Windows PC), it will play there too-- 
so long as I have not exceeded the number of computer activations  
allowed for this file by iTunes.

I think you are allowed 5 computer authorizations for each iTunes  
Music Store account. Each of these computers can transfer music to an  
unlimited number of iPods.

M
On May 10, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Mark Smith wrote:

> I think this is part of the DRM - the music business is not built  
> on trust!
>
> Mark
>
> On 10 May 2006, at 16:09, Alex Tweedly wrote:
>
>> Ahhh - that explains the comment I had seen elsewhere - you can  
>> copy files to an iPod being used as an external disk, but can't  
>> then play them as tunes. How strange, and annoying.
>
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