21. Cheers to Diego asking for someone to string all the shows together into one file. If this becomes a reality, can you also strip the first 4:20 out of each episode so we can lose the sponsor blathering. I'll take 30 seconds of it, but more than 4 minutes is crazy. I wonder if the sponsors are getting any flack?

Posted at 7:30AM on Oct 17th 2006 by markx

22. I was going to put my entire music library in Subversion SVN (http://subversion.tigris.org/)but because it always keeps pristine copies, which doubles your disk space on each 'client' - that wasn't going to work for me.

Instead I opted for using "Unison File Synchronizer" (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html) which basically synchronizes directories across machines. It's platform independent and bi-directional so if you download podcasts on one machine it syncs to the other no problem.

I'll be posting a how-to on my site (http://i.ndustrio.us) sometime later in the week but in the meantime you may want to check out the product.

Posted at 7:35PM on Oct 17th 2006 by Jason Roberts

23. Jason specifically mentioned moving podcasts from multiple machines onto one iPod. You can't do that in iTunes 7.0 -- and I'm talking about podcasts only -- despite the advances in manually managing music and movie files. They seem to have missed the boat on podcasts. Not exactly sure why. Hopefully a future update of the software will address podcasts the same way they address music and movie files.

Posted at 5:54PM on Oct 20th 2006 by Harold Check

24. Do you have a network? The way I would do it is to load all your songs onto the shared network folder in "My network places" on you laptop. In iTunes, click "file," then "add folder to Library" then browse for your folder. It is always easier to keep your songs all in this one folder. That's about the only way I know.

Posted at 3:07PM on Oct 24th 2006 by Mike Miller

25. I use Winamp and mlipod to sync my iPod on multiple computers. I just can't stand iTunes. In many ways, Apple's 'i'ware is just as bad as kludge from Microsoft, and no, Apple-heads who know nothing else, it's not the only game in town, nor the only way of doing things.

Posted at 9:46PM on Nov 5th 2006 by Zack

26. The popularity of ipod is best proof for stupidity of human race. I'm glad that I got this piece of junk for free.

Posted at 6:22PM on Nov 23rd 2006 by saeid

27. would it be possible to get songs i dont have from onother computer with my i pod and then transfer it to my base computer without losing all the original songs and vice verser with another ipod so i end up with two identical libraries and two identical ipod song libraries and ive confused myself with that question sorry?

Posted at 12:24PM on Nov 24th 2006 by maximus

28. Regarding the downloading of podcasts from two different computers to one iPod, you CAN do it. Just do the Manually Manage Music and Video, then drag and drop your downloaded podcast episode right onto your iPod. Now here's the incredibly stupid part. Your podcast is now on your iPod, BUT only when you go to your Playlist->Recently Added. iTunes 7 will NOT add the new podcast you downloaded into your Podcast directory.

Posted at 9:42PM on Nov 30th 2006 by Ken

29. went thru all ur comments. I have a different problem. I had a hard disk crash becuase of which songs in my old i-tunes library got lost. Its contents are only in my i-pod now.
Now if i re-install i-tunes it shows an empty library.how do i make it take songs from the ipod? without this, i cannot add or delete music from my ipod.any suggestions?

Posted at 5:36AM on Oct 6th 2007 by geetha

30. I went to the US recently and bought a MacBook and two ITouch players as presents for my family. My laptop runs Ubuntu, my wifes laptop runs windows XP, my desktop windows, and now I have a Mac. I have wireless lan and a big network drive and until now have had no problems with MP3 players. I can honestly say that ITunes is a complete load of rubbish, why they make such a sexy little device as the Itouch, and then render it next to useless with such brain dead software I can not imagine. Is there any way to simply see an ITouch as a straight forward simple file system ?

Posted at 8:22AM on Nov 5th 2007 by JL

31. I've been going through the comments trying to find one that relates to my issue but haven't really found one yet.
I've got my desktop and my laptop, both running Windows. I've also got an external hard drive. All my music is stored on my external hard drive. I'm currently in another state from my desktop (where I originally started iTunes). I've tried plugging my external hard drive into my new laptop and I've been able to move all my music onto the iTunes on my laptop but it still comes up asking if I won't to erase the old and input the new. I've clicked no. I just want to make sure that I'm doing something right. Also, I created many Play Lists on my desktop, is it possible to transfer those Play Lists from my iPod to my laptop iTunes?
Any one out there know what I need to do?

Posted at 12:30PM on Jan 9th 2008 by DogsBreath

32. My problem is that i got my library on my desktop at home and is where i sync my Ipod.
But igot internet on my laptop at work and so, if I want to modify my ipod library adding covers etc. i cant do it using Itunes on the laptop or it will delete all themusic I got on the Ipod while trying to sync it with the laptop..

Posted at 10:22AM on Feb 13th 2008 by Senzamedda

33. i love it when people complain about itunes and then spend hours trying to figure out inferior ways around using it. Itunes is a great simple piece of software for regular non-tech people...and if people were really as tech savvy as they pretend they are on these boards they would have figured out the easiest, most obvious work-around to this issue....don't keep your itunes library on your computer. Go spend like 30 bucks, get yourself an external hard drive and put it there. then simply go into itunes on all your machines and change the library location to that drive instead of a folder. This way itunes thinks you only have one computer. It can be done cross-platform too but its a bit more involved especially if one of the boxes runs Linux. Remember your going to have to merge your library files,you have to be running the same version of itunes on all your machines, and if you download from itunes both computers have to be authorized.

~The guy that has been doing this since O/S 9.1

p.s. if your using the same platform across the board you can just install intunes on the same external hardrive you keep your music on and run it from there.

Posted at 6:08AM on May 11th 2008 by Dave

34. Heyaa i woz just wondering !!
i am getting a laptop 4 my birthday and i want 2 move the itunes from the computer 2 my laptop but how is this possible if u are synced with 2 itunes u ave 2 chose 2 delete the prevus files or not sync !! so wht can i do ????

Posted at 1:48PM on Jul 18th 2008 by ME