<p>I know this is waay far in advance but I was wondering what to do when I get my laptop for college. I have ALL of my itunes/music on the family computer and my IPod. How can I transfer all of that music to my laptop? I do NOT want to have to burn a million CDs. Can I use one of those USB drives? I know that when I plug my ipod into another computer that it will lose all of the music that I have on it. What to do?</p>
<p>If I'm not mistaken, you can't transfer music from an iPod to a computer. They put some type of protection on it so that isn't allowed.
However, if you have files on your family computer, you can email them to yourself on an email account that has a lot of storage and then redownload them, or put them on a website and re-download them.</p>
<p>Use your ipod as an external harddrive and copy the music onto there. Then copy it off the ipod onto your laptop.</p>
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<p>this link explains how to do it.</p>
<p>If Warchant's method doesnt work, (Which is unlikely...), you could also get those small usb things that you can transfer stuff on, then plug it into your laptop.</p>
<p>That worked for me.</p>
<p>thanks a lot guys</p>
<p>Unless you have a HUGE music collection, or all your music is only on your iPod, you can burn your music on to a CD and then rip it back off into MP3s or whatever you want.</p>
<p>yea i know but i do not want to burn enough CDs to put over 1500 songs on...that would take FOREVER</p>
<p>That's why I said to not do it if you had a large music collection....</p>
<p>Of course, this is coming from a person who is about to attempt burning around 23gb of photos on to CDs....</p>