Lazy days

[hils]

I'm having a lovely, lazy, relaxing Christmas and it must be doing me some good as my cold is finally pretty much gone \0/

Yesterday I spent the whole day in my PJs and it was fab! Hehe!

Got LOADS of Christmas TV to catch up on which my parents have recorded. Did see Doctor Who though and I liked it a lot.

Now that I've posted You Complete Me, I can post my word count for the year. This is from 24 Dec 06 to now. Many words. I think that's the most I've written since my most prolific days in the Buffy fandom and I'm very pleased.

Are there any ipod experts here? I've got a question.

I want to play with my new toy, but I'm a bit wary about plugging it into my laptop when most of my music is on my desktop PC back in York. I've got a shuffle at the moment, and whilst I've authorised it to work on both computers when I plug it into my laptop it doesn't seem to register that my ipod is there. I'm worried if I use my big one on here first my desktop won't recognise it and that's no good at all

Any thoughts?

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[tariel22.livejournal.com]

The authorizing process on iTunes doesn't actually refer to the devices you connect to your computer (your iPod and your shuffle). Technically, when you authorize a computer on your iTunes account, you're authorizing that computer to play songs purchased on your iTunes account, because those songs come with protection software to prevent you from sharing them with other people (who haven't paid for them). The authorization process allows up to five computers to bypass that protection. This only applies to songs purchased on iTunes, not songs you download from CDs.

This protection does not apply to your iPod/shuffle. Or to be exact, you are permitted to download and play iTunes music on an unlimited number of iPod devices, so you should be able to plug in to any number of computers with your iPod, no problem. The only thing you have to be careful of, is that the default setting on iTunes is to automatically sync any iPod it recognizes. This means that if you want to, say, plug into your friend's iTunes to download that one great song she told you about, remember to select manual update in her iTunes preferences first so you don't wipe out your current playlists when you plug in.

If your laptop doesn't recognize your shuffle, the only thing I can think of off the top of my head is, is your iTunes software up to date on your laptop? If you have the new shuffle and old software, that could happen. To check, just connect to the internet on your laptop and open iTunes. If it doesn't check for new software automatically, just go to the iTunes menu and select "check for updates." Once your software is up to date, try plugging in your shuffle and see if it pops up and starts to sync.

If that doesn't work, try the help menu in iTunes (make sure you're still connected to the internet). I have found their help pages to be well-written and easy to follow. I'm sure there's a "my iPod/shuffle doesn't show up" question in their FAQ. I would test everything using your shuffle, and once that seems to work correctly, go for it with your iPod. I hope this helps (sorry it's so long). Good luck!

[hils.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you! That's all really useful!

crash course in iTunes

[marikology.livejournal.com]

Here's some things you need to know about Ipods.

1. iTunes is the WORST PROGRAM EVAR. It takes eight thousand years to load cos it's fucking huge, and it wants to update every month. The update will take an hour. Skip them every 5 times and you'll be okay.

2. Ipods are very fragile. Get a case right now cos it only takes one drop. If you haven't already done so, don't take the plastic film off the front or the back cos just looking at it will scratch it.

3. You can't transfer things off of an iPod. It can't go back on yours or onto another computer like a flashdrive. It can either go on the ipod or get deleted.

4. If you are burning a cd, it lists the hours in decimals by default. If you want to see the exact time, click the hours and it will change. (Meaning, it will say 1.2 hours playtime, but when you click it it will change to 1 hour 14 minutes) Also, even if your playlist is 1 hour 19 minutes, iTunes will claim it's too long to go onto an 80 minute cd. This drives me banannnnasss.

5. If you delete all your songs off of iTunes, your playlists, play counts, and star ratings will go bye-bye too.

6. Album artwork is teh pretteh and worth the effort. I use cd covers from amazon.com

Re: crash course in iTunes

[hils.livejournal.com]

Wow, ok, thanks *g*

I've had an ipod Shuffle for a while now but this is my first big 'proper' ipod.