I have a Macbook Pro with a 100 GB HD. This HD is near full, mainly due to almost 40 GB of music (I've encoded my entire CD collection). Now I've been considering buying one of those recently released iPod 80 GB to store the music and also be able to play it on the road. Is that feasible? From what I gather, iPods are intended to be synched with a music database on a computer - thats not what I want though, I want the music database to reside on the iPod entirely, so I can remove it from the computer to make room. I want to hook up the iPod to the Macbook and have iTunes play the music from it - does that work? Furthermore I would need to be able to copy all my music back off the iPod in case I want to switch/upgrade. I also need to be able to backup the entire database off the iPod to an external disk. In all of these cases I want the metadata to survive transfers (CD cover images, playlists, artist/title information, etc.). Is this possible with an iPod? What extra software do I need? Or is there a better alternative (please do not recommend Creative products, I greatly dislike that company).
Using an iPod to do that is certainly an option. I know several people that use this method. If you want to leave the music on the iPod and listen to it in iTunes, it is as simple as plugging it into your computer and iTunes will let you play off the iPod. In terms of taking the music back off that is not very difficult. By default the iPod iTunes relationship is designed to prevent this, but there is a lot of software out there that lets you circumvent this.
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i keep about 20 gig of music on my iPods. but, i also upgraded to iTunes 7 which allows you to back up your music to a seperate disk. i'd do the iPod to take on a trip, but buy a external harddrive to back up my music. that way if you loose the iPod, you still the music on a disk. and you can still play music on your computer with the external hooked up.
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You cannot do that with an iPod and iTunes.
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