Uploading straight from CD to iPod without uploading to hard drive

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Uploading straight from CD to iPod without uploading to hard drive

Forgive me if I am being dumb and missing something obvious! I am trying to upload my CD collection (about 240 disks) onto my shiny first iPod that is a new born 5 hours old 😉 It appears that I have to add the CD to an iTunes Library on my hard drive first, then sync with the iPod. Is this correct? My work laptop only has 2 Gb of free space, and I am intending to upload mega Gb onto the iPod, I cannot find a way of uploading from CD directly to the iPod without uploading to the hard drive first.

My next confusion is that I cannot see how I can edit the Genre to suit what I want it to be (Hank Marvin is definitely not ‘Country’) – I want to change all the Shadows CDs to “Instrumental Rock” but cannot figure out how to do that. Could anyone shed any light?

I have uploaded an entire CD to my iPod, but now want to delete some tracks, but the software does not seem to allow me to navigate and delete or rename what is on the iPod, is there a way to do this through iTunes software? I previously had a Creative Zen so am used to managing tracks directly on the device so am lost with this interface Sorry if I missed the obvious, but have spent 3 hours trying to figure this!!

80 Gb Classic, Windows XP Pro

Posted on May 30, 2008 3:48 PM

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Answer 1

May 30, 2008 5:40 PM in response to Shirlz33

You have to import your CDs to your computer (or external drive), then from iTunes load the songs to your iPod. There is no way to go direct from ripping to iPod. That wouldn't be secure anyway since the iPod is not intended to be the one and only location for your media files. If you treat your files like that, you will lose them someday, guaranteed!

If your iPod is set for auto-synchronization to your iTunes library, the iPod contents will appear grey in iTunes and you cannot edit them or delete them from the iPod. Instead, you would need to exclude them from synchronizing to your iPod. You can do that by either (a) delete the song from the iTunes library, or (b) un-check the song and set your iPod to sync to only checked items, or (c) create a playlist of what you want your iPod to contain and set your iPod to sync to only that playlist, or (d) change your iPod to be manually managed and then you can delete the song(s) directly from the iPod while connected to iTunes.

Regarding the genre, the only thing I'd add is that you can select the entire album (not just a song) and change the genre. You can do this after you rip the CD, or before. If you change it before ripping, you can do us all a favor and select +Advanced/ Submit CD Track Names+. That will push your correction up to the Gracenote CDDB database so that (perhaps someday) the next person to rip the CD will get the correct genre.

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Answer 2

Shirlz33 Author

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May 31, 2008 11:19 AM in response to rockmyplimsoul

Thanks rockmyplimsoul; your answer has helped me sort out how to use the iPod - I was trying to do what I had previously done with the Creative Zen and got frustrated that I could not get music straight from the CD. Got an external hard drive and using that to store the library now and it all makes much more sense! I will only share genre changes where it will help others, some of the changes I am making are for my own benefit of grouping my very varied collection.

Thanks again!

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Chris CA

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May 31, 2008 12:05 PM in response to Shirlz33

My work laptop only has 2 Gb of free space,

You definitely need to clear some space on it, even if you do not load the CDs onto the HD.
A good rule of thumb is to keep AT LEAST 10%-15 free space on your boot hard drive.
The OS needs space to work and if you have little space, the computer will have to do much more work to keep running correctly.

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Answer 4

May 30, 2008 4:51 PM in response to Shirlz33

to change the genre right click on the song, select get info then select the info tab and at the bottom will be an option to change the genre

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