Ask iLounge 6-6-08

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Ask iLounge offers readers the opportunity to get answers to their iPod-related questions from a member of the iLounge editorial team. We'll answer several questions here each week, and of course, you can always get help with more immediate concerns from the iLounge Discussion Forums. Submit your questions for consideration using our Ask iLounge Submit Form. We reserve the right to edit questions for grammar, spelling, and length.

The most asked question at iLounge.com:

How do I copy music from my iPod onto my computer?

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The second most asked question at iLounge.com:

How do I put DVDs on my iPod?

For converting DVDs, web video, TV shows and home movies to your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV, we have a three-part series outlining the best formats, settings, and various tools to use for converting all types of video content for use on these devices.

The Complete Guide to iPod, Apple TV and iPhone Video Formats

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Top five questions most recently asked by iLounge readers:

Q: What are the best speakers to use with my iPod? (15, 76-79, and 90-92)

Q: What are the best headphones to use with my iPod? (10, 72-75, and 90-92)

Q: I really want to get a nice case for my iPod. Do you have any suggestions? (36-37, 54-67, and 90-92)

Q: How can I connect my iPod to my car stereo? (14, 32-35, 68-71, and 90-92)

Q: Are there any batteries that I can use to extend my iPod's battery life? (82-83 and 90-92)

A: Answers to these and many other questions can be found in two places. Our Free iPod Book 3.3 provides a complete report card to all of the iPod accessories we've reviewed as of summer 2007, as well as over 125 iTunes and iPod tips & tricks. Further, our new 2008 iPod & iPhone Buyers' Guide has accessory tutorials at the page numbers listed in parentheses above. These and other publications in our Library are free downloads, developed by the editors of iLounge!

And now, for this week's Ask iLounge column:

Is there a way to download YouTube videos to the iPod classic? Can I also download just the audio of a YouTube video to use on a second-generation iPod nano?

- Bill

While the Apple TV, iPhone and iPod touch provide a way to view YouTube videos if you have an Internet connection, this feature is not available on the iPod classic or iPod nano. Further, even for those devices that do provide YouTube browsing, you must be connected to the Internet to view YouTube videos, as they are streamed from YouTube’s servers, rather than transferred directly onto your device.

iTunes itself does not provide a means for accessing YouTube or converting YouTube videos into a downloaded format that can be transferred or stored in your iTunes library or on your iPod. Fortunately, as with most oft-requested features, third-party software tools are available to fill the gap.

For Mac users, TubeTV (http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/tubetv) is a great free option which will allow you to browse YouTube videos, and download and convert them directly into an iPod-ready format, and can even add these videos to your iTunes library, tagged as Movies, Music Videos, or TV Shows and add it to a custom playlist.

For Windows users, Videora (http://www.videora.com) is one of the more popular iPod video conversion tools, and recent versions have also added support for the conversion of online videos from sites such as YouTube. Conversion works otherwise in much the same way as it does for other types of videos within Videora, and the final result is an iPod-ready video in your iTunes library.

Another option, TubeSock (http://stinkbot.com/Tubesock, $15) is available for both Mac and Windows users, and provides the additional ability to convert only the audio portion of a YouTube video track for use on an iPod model that doesn’t support video playback, such as the second-generation iPod nano. Another nice feature of TubeSock is that it will integrate a bookkmarklet into your existing web browser so that you can launch it directly from a YouTube page.

I have a few iPods that I would like to sell. Would you be able to tell me the worth of my iPods?

- Alda

As in previous years, our Free iPod + iPhone Book 4 provides a summary on page 124 of average selling prices on eBay for various iPod models right from the original first-generation 5GB iPod through to current models, including the iPhone and Apple TV as well.

I am new to Mac OS X. How do I ‘fit to screen’ the iTunes window?

- Mike

On Mac OS X, there is no “Maximize” button that automatically resizes a window to fill the entire screen. With most applications, the green button at the top-left corner of the window will resize the window to fit its content, which may or may not fill the entire screen.

In iTunes, however, this button is used to toggle between the mini-player view and the full iTunes window. To instead expand the iTunes window to fill your entire screen, hold down the Mac OPT key while clicking on the green button. OPT-clicking on the green button again will return your iTunes window to its previous size.

I tried searching your forum but cannot find any information on how to give my iPod to my younger sister. She has a different email address and a different laptop. I am planning on buying a new iPod and want to give her my old iPod classic. What happens to the games on the iPod classic that I bought? Do they “belong to the iPod classic?” Will they work for her when she registers the iPod classic under her own email address, or do I move them over to my new iPod touch? I am not worried about the music as she likes different music than I do, but I would like to be able to keep some on the family photos on the iPod classic for her as well.

- Sandi

The first thing to keep in mind is that the registration of a new iPod where you fill in your information such as address and phone number has nothing whatsoever to do with your iPod’s “association” to a given user or library. This stage is simply a standard product registration procedure similar to that found on most other products you buy, and is a completely optional step in the process. The user’s e-mail address, therefore, has nothing to do with what information is associated to the iPod or loaded on the iPod. Further, this registration only occurs on a new iPod anyway—if you connect an existing iPod to another computer, the user will not be prompted to re-register the iPod.

However, f you are using automatic synchronization between your iPod and your computer, your iPod is “associated” to your iTunes library by virtue of that automatic synchronization. In this case, the content on your iPod mirrors the content in your own iTunes library. If you remove something from your iTunes library, it is also removed from your iPod on the next sync. Connecting the iPod to another computer will result in a prompt to erase the iPod and sync it with content from the new iTunes library. This may be fine if you want to hand off a fresh “as-new” iPod to somebody, but isn’t really effective if you want to leave content on it.

It is possible to set an iPod to manually manage your music and video content, in which case content does not sync to the iPod automatically. Instead, you transfer content to the iPod manually by dragging and dropping it from your iTunes library onto your iPod icon in iTunes. In manual mode you essentially manage the music and video content on the iPod as if it were a separate library, rather than an extension of your main iTunes library—you can expand the iPod in iTunes by clicking on the small triangle to the left of the iPod icon, and view and manage the content directly on the iPod itself (via iTunes), rather than making changes in your main iTunes library and syncing them to your iPod. You can also connect the iPod to any computer running iTunes and add/remove content or even listen to tracks directly from the iPod itself via iTunes.

Keep in mind that manual mode only applies to music and video content. Other content such as photos, games, contacts, and calendar info cannot be transferred manually. You can choose to either synchronize this content automatically with a single iTunes library, or not transfer it at all. If you choose to transfer games or photos onto the iPod from another computer, any games or photos previously loaded onto the iPod will be erased and replaced with the new ones.

Note that any purchased content stored on the iPod, regardless of whether it includes music, videos, or games, is associated with your iTunes Store account, not the iPod itself. If you do not actually restore the iPod or remove this content, it will stay in place regardless of which computer you connect the iPod to, but if you restore the iPod completely (ie, erase everything on it), you would need to have this content in your iTunes library to transfer it back onto your iPod, and you will only be able to load it from an iTunes library that is authorized for the same iTunes Store account that was used to purchase this content. Up to five (5) different computers can be authorized for the same iTunes Store account, and you can transfer purchased content (including games) to an unlimited number of iPods, provided it’s transferred from a computer that is authorized for that content in the first place (ie, one of your five authorized computers).

In your specific case, you can set your iPod to manual mode before giving it to your sister. To do this, simply connect the iPod to your iTunes library, select it in the source list on the left-hand side, and look for the checkbox labelled Manually manage my music and videos on the iPod “Summary” screen:

Check this box and click the “Apply” button. You can then go into the iPod content directly via iTunes by clicking on the small triangle to the left of the iPod in the iTunes source list, and delete any content that you don’t want to leave on your iPod, or that you think your sister wouldn’t care about. Alternatively, she can do the same thing herself once she connects the iPod to her own laptop.

Note that this still presents a problem with regard to photos and games, since this content is always synced automatically to the iPod. Any photos and/or games already on the iPod will remain on the iPod as long as the “Sync Photos” and “Sync Games” options are left OFF in her own iTunes library, however this will preclude her from adding any new photos or games of her own, since enabling any of the sync options will erase everything in that category and replace it with the content from her own computer.

Unless she plans to buy some of her own games from the iTunes Store and load them on, this may not be an issue for the games that are already there. However, it is likely that she will want to add her own photos at some point, in addition to the family photos that are already there. In this case, the best way to deal with this is to simply give her copies of the original photos to store on her own laptop, so that when she does decide to sync additional photo content, she can include the existing photos as well.

iPod Games are a little bit trickier in this case, since these are purchased content. To get the games into her own iTunes library, you can transfer them back from the iPod—just authorize her computer for your own iTunes Store account (using Store, Authorize Computer), and then connect the iPod to her computer and choose File, Transfer Purchases from the iTunes menu. This will transfer back ALL content that was purchased with your iTunes Store account from the iPod back to her computer.

Keep in mind that the games that you have purchased for the iPod classic will only work with the iPod classic, 2007 iPod nano (video), and fifth-generation iPod models. They will not work on the iPod touch.

I have recently purchased an 80GB iPod classic, and I also have a docking/speaker unit. I need a case that I can leave on and still use my docking/speaker unit. Any suggestions?

- Tracy

There are several options available now in this regard, although most require that the speakers or other Dock Connector accessory use the new Universal Dock standard, since many of these cases simply come with case-specific Universal Dock inserts which accommodate the additional width added by the case itself.

Agent 18 started the Dock compatible concept with cases such as the Agent 18 Classic Shield (iLounge rating: B) and Agent 18 NanoShield Kit (iLounge rating: B-). Most of Griffin’s hard cases, including iClear (iLounge rating: B+) and Reflect (iLounge rating: B+), are also now Universal Dock compatible.

Our iPod classic Case Reviews indicate in each review whether or not a given case is compatible with the Universal Dock or not.

I read your tutorial on Copying Content from your iPod to your computer, and followed the steps to manually load my songs from my iPod nano onto my Mac mini and it didn’t work. I put in the command scripts onto terminal as requested and was able to see the iPod_control folder and the music folder when browsing through my iPod, but when I went to iTunes and chose the “Add to Library” that folder wasn’t visible. I tried copying the music folder out of iPod_control, but it still remained invisible to iTunes. Have others noticed this problem? Is it because I have a Mac Mini? Is it the newest version of iTunes that is stopping this??

- Sarah

There is a problem in more recent versions of iTunes that despite the preferences to show hidden files within Finder itself, these folders will not always appear visible to other applications such as iTunes. In some cases, shutting down and restarting iTunes after adjusting the Finder preferences resolves this, but not always.

Copying the content of the “Music” folder back to your computer and importing it from there is normally sufficient, but there’s a much faster way: With the ipod_control folder open in Finder, simply drag and drop the content of the “Music” folder from the Finder window onto the iTunes window. This produces the same effect as the “Add to Library” menu option, resulting in all of the selected files in that folder and all sub-folders being imported into your iTunes library. Just make sure that you have the Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library option enabled and your iTunes Music folder set correct before doing this, as explained in the tutorial, to ensure that all of the imported files get copied back to your computer.

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11-2-07: TV Docks for new iPod models, Calculate song file sizes, iPhone backup and restore, Sync selected content with iPhone, Universal Dock compatibility, Managing podcast synchronization

10-26-07: iTunes Plus, Play Slideshow on iPod nano, Activate TV out on new iPods, Recover Mac iPod in Windows, Add descriptions to TV shows, iTunes not opening when iPhone is connected

10-18-07: iPod and Windows Autoplay, Reinstalling iTunes, Manually Managing Videos, iPod charging accessories, iPod touch power and sleep modes, Resyncing recovered iPod content

10-11-07: Managing a class set of iPods, New firmware and older iPods, Windows ME support, Sorting artists by last name, 3G iPod car audio compatibility, Resetting iPod language

10-5-07: iTunes WiFi Store, Videos with no sound, Managing video content manually, Tagging TV Shows, Renaming iPod, Flash support on iPhone, Removing multiple artwork images, iPhone and multi-recipient SMS, US/UK iPod compatibility, Photo storage on iPod touch

9-27-07: iPod classic audio quality, New iPod models: features and accessory compatibility, Transferring music from iPod 5G to classic, iPod nano voice recording, Storing multiple bitrates in iTunes

9-7-07: Special Edition on the new iPod lineup - users most common questions answered about the new iPod lineup and new iTunes release, including accessory compatibility and new software features.

8-30-07: Playing single tracks, iPhone sleep timer, Deleting iPod content, TV shows do not appear on iPod, Manually sorting playlists, Fitting content onto audio CDs, Car line-out solutions

8-23-07: Set Video Kind within files, Authorization and iPod transfer, Chat Clients for iPhone, Importing CDs for gapless playback, Tethering iPhone, Burning Purchased Tracks

8-16-07: Managing podcasts, Bookmarking audiobooks, No artwork in Cover Flow, Storing iTunes content on two hard drives, Sleeping with an iPod, ROKR sunglasses and iPhone, Selling an iPod

8-9-07: Playing Podcast episodes in sequence, Recording radio in iTunes, New iPod with songs already on it, Authorized Computers, Sync iPod with a new computer, Transferring a Windows iPod to a MacBook

8-2-07: Syncing the iPhone to more than one computer, Transferring iTunes music to the Blackberry, Continuous video playback on the iPod, Problems editing track info in iTunes, Transferring content from iPhone to computer, Video playback from the iPhone, Sending MMS messages from the iPhone

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Comments

1

Why don’t my desktop pc recognizie my shuffle ipod

Posted by michelle on June 7, 2008 at 7:51 AM (PDT)

2

i am recently gonna buy an i-pod clssic(80 Gb one).and i was very much confused with its functions, i want to know whether i could create different playlists according to my mood(like happy,sad,party..etc) in the i-pod.and can i directly add the songs in mp3 format from my windows XP Pc to the i-pod or do i have to convert?

Posted by SIDH on June 9, 2008 at 7:08 AM (PDT)

3

For windows users, Free Download Manager can pull videos from youTube (and others) and automatically convert them.

Posted by Brian on June 9, 2008 at 7:57 AM (PDT)

4

I’m having an issue with my ipod touch. Every time i power down, it turn on by itself after 10 seconds or so. It seems like the ipod started doing this after i upgraded to 1.1.4. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem. if so, any solutions?

Posted by An on June 9, 2008 at 9:02 AM (PDT)

5

I have been getting this error message since I started using vista.

The iPod “Firstname Lastname’s iPod”
cannot be synced. You do not have
enough access privileges for this
operation.

and there is no further progress in the sync and there is plenty of data on the iPod.

Help! What can I do to resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance.
-Cindy

Posted by Cindy on June 11, 2008 at 5:54 PM (PDT)

6

I am after some feedback on FM transmitters for playing music from ipod on the car stereo. My car (a station wagon) has the antenna in the rear window. Which transmitter works the best with in-winow antenna?

Posted by GLUKE on June 11, 2008 at 5:55 PM (PDT)

7

RE: YouTube Videos on your iPod -
It is also worth checking out the YouTube Video Podcasts which highlight the best videos around and can be downloaded for iPod viewing.

Posted by Ben Shakespeare on June 24, 2008 at 12:10 AM (PDT)

8

Floola (http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/) will also allow you to download YouTube videos.

VictorE

Posted by VictorE on June 26, 2008 at 11:15 PM (PDT)

9

How do I register a new ipod that i bought and load music on to the new ipod?

Posted by Lee Taylor on August 24, 2008 at 1:41 PM (PDT)

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