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How can I take my wife's mp3(pc) and put them on my mac?

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well, my wife's selling her good ol' notebook PC, so i want to take her whole itunes library and put it on my computer for the time being.

Now, how would I go about doing this?

would a crossover cable work?

what exactly is that?

any help would be greeeattttlly appreciated. thank you.

:)
 
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Many options:

-Burn the files to a data CD or DVD
-Use an external Hard Drive
-Use your iPod as an external hard drive, if you have one.
 
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We'll she does have them all saved on her ipod.. But once I plug that into my mac won't it reformat her ipod to work with my mac??
 
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Matthew_love84 said:
We'll she does have them all saved on her ipod.. But once I plug that into my mac won't it reformat her ipod to work with my mac??
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No, OS X can read Windows formatted iPods. You need a program like Senuti to get the songs from the iPod to your Mac though.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23390

What bagss meant though was that you can use your iPod as an external HD and copy her music folder onto it from her PC and then copy it from the iPod onto your Mac
 
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How do I put the misic folder on her ipod?? All this help is greatly appreciated. Also, if I plug her ipod into my computer.. All it will do is open up itunes and display all of her songs??
 
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Also, with senuti it doesn't matter if the ipod is "pc formated?" I'd that even exists lol.
 
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no, you don't need all that sentuti whatever. Just use the iPod as a hard drive. Basically, drag and drop the iTunes source files into the iPod icon on the PC, turn off auto-update on your mac's itunes, and drop the source files onto the mac. There is a nice step by step guide here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/switch/howto/ipod.html.

there!
 

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