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<blockquote data-quote="mawaltz" data-source="post: 990431" data-attributes="member: 142171">I need to consolidate the basic song information from my MacBook, my iPod classic (80GB) and an iPod 5G (80GB). I do NOT want to transfer the songs to my laptop--only the basic song information.Basically, I need to export a library file in xml from each of the 2 iPods as I have already done for the MacBook's iTunes library. Then I can consolidate the libraries, have all of my song info in one place, identify and deal with duplicates, triplicates, misspellings, etc.After a good bit of research, I'm fairly certain that iTunes won't do it for me. (Why not???). If I am wrong, please correct me, and direct me toward the iTunes solution.If Apple isn't the solution, what other applications will do this for me? I do not care about retaining much more info in the exported files for each song than title, album, artist--a basic catalog. (Not genres, play counts, playlists, etc.) Free is always better, but I am willing to invest a modest amount to accomplish this. I did try KavaTunes, but I have been unable to get it to build libraries from the iPods, only iTunes--big deal! Repeated emails to their tech support have been ignored.This seems like it should be a simple procedure. What am I missing??Thanks for any and all suggestions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mawaltz, post: 990431, member: 142171"] I need to consolidate the basic song information from my MacBook, my iPod classic (80GB) and an iPod 5G (80GB). I do NOT want to transfer the songs to my laptop--only the basic song information. Basically, I need to export a library file in xml from each of the 2 iPods as I have already done for the MacBook's iTunes library. Then I can consolidate the libraries, have all of my song info in one place, identify and deal with duplicates, triplicates, misspellings, etc. After a good bit of research, I'm fairly certain that iTunes won't do it for me. (Why not???). If I am wrong, please correct me, and direct me toward the iTunes solution. If Apple isn't the solution, what other applications will do this for me? I do not care about retaining much more info in the exported files for each song than title, album, artist--a basic catalog. (Not genres, play counts, playlists, etc.) Free is always better, but I am willing to invest a modest amount to accomplish this. I did try KavaTunes, but I have been unable to get it to build libraries from the iPods, only iTunes--big deal! Repeated emails to their tech support have been ignored. This seems like it should be a simple procedure. What am I missing?? Thanks for any and all suggestions. [/QUOTE]

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