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Lolbear Simpson
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What I attempted to do was copy a music file from my iPod to my documents, but I can't figure out how. I tried the simplest of methods (e.g. copy and paste, moving directly with mouse) but those didn't work.
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Yummytummy Burritos
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:53 am |
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I don't think it's possible from your iPod to do that.
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Lolbear Simpson
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:59 am |
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| Yummytummy Burritos wrote: |
| I don't think it's possible from your iPod to do that. |
You sure? |
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Funny Lebowski
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:20 pm |
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When you add music to your iTunes/iPod, it converts all imported files into a .itl (iTunes library). So no, you can't take music from your iPod and put it into my documents. You need the original music files.
This is done to stop fraud - for instance, if you just took somebody's iPod and it didn't convert the music files into this library, then you'd just be able to steal all of their music.
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Lolbear Simpson
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:26 pm |
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| Damn it, but it's my own song! I'll have to find another way. |
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Lolbear Simpson
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:26 pm |
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| OK, how about, is there a way to put music from iTunes onto MovieMaker? |
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Funny Lebowski
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:40 pm |
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iTunes is a way of storing music. If you want to put music into anything, you'll need the original .mp3, .wav etc.
If you've lost the original music file, then I'm sorry, but as far as I'm aware, there's no way of retrieving it again.
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Lolbear Simpson
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:51 pm |
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| Funny Lebowski wrote: |
iTunes is a way of storing music. If you want to put music into anything, you'll need the original .mp3, .wav etc.
If you've lost the original music file, then I'm sorry, but as far as I'm aware, there's no way of retrieving it again. |
AW CRAP SON! I found it! In one of my USBs!
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Knyh Risotto
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:59 pm |
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I'd assume you checked where iTunes stores music on the PC?
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media (or something very similar) should be all your music organized by artist and then album.
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Lolbear Simpson
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:18 pm |
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| Knyh Risotto wrote: |
I'd assume you checked where iTunes stores music on the PC?
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media (or something very similar) should be all your music organized by artist and then album. |
I said USB. |
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Rojoco Anderson
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:45 pm |
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| This is another reason why I dislike iPods/iTunes/Apple in general, their horrendous DRM. I rarely download from music stores because I'm a CD collecting whore but when I do it's from Amazon MP3. Also what you are trying to do is piss-easy on my Sony Walkman. =P |
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Captin Simpson
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:12 pm |
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| Rojoco Anderson wrote: |
| This is another reason why I dislike iPods/iTunes/Apple in general, their horrendous DRM. |
They don't use DRM at all. At least not for the last 2 years.
I'll assume your on your Mac, but the same works for Windows anyway:
Hop into Finder (or WE) to your default music folder* and then a folder titled "iTunes". That folder, is basically your source folder for your iTunes library; Music, apps, movies etc. You'll want the "iTunes Music" folder and you've got the original files. In short:
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*This is under the assumption that you've not changed to source folder in iTunes
E: Also, you can drag to the desktop within iTunes to just copy the file as you would with any other file
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Rojoco Anderson
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:26 pm |
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| Captin Simpson wrote: |
| Rojoco Anderson wrote: |
| This is another reason why I dislike iPods/iTunes/Apple in general, their horrendous DRM. |
They don't use DRM at all. At least not for the last 2 years. |
So they no longer use the .m4a file format when purchasing from iTunes? It's gotta be MP3 or nothing for me. |
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Captin Simpson
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:34 pm |
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| Rojoco Anderson wrote: |
| Captin Simpson wrote: |
| Rojoco Anderson wrote: |
| This is another reason why I dislike iPods/iTunes/Apple in general, their horrendous DRM. |
They don't use DRM at all. At least not for the last 2 years. |
So they no longer use the .m4a file format when purchasing from iTunes? |
Oh, you confused me. They used to have ridiculous DRM which made it physically impossible to back files up to any other place which they got rid of like 2009. They still use m4a, understandably.
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