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Stupidest question ever...

This is gonna sound silly but, hear me out. I love the process of downloading music from a website, inserting lyrics, and numbering the songs in order all by myself. I just love that process more than just using a streaming service. I don't know why but that is so much fun.


I have a MacBook Air (2020 M1) and I download music from a website. I download one at a time and then I create a folder naming the album and then I drag that folder into the music app. And then I insert the lyrics, change the genre for its particular one, number the songs in order, and all that stuff. Then I plug in my iPod touch 5th gen, go to the finder -> iPod -> music, and then I click on sync entire music library and then it's all done.


I have 2 questions regarding this.


  1. Let's say one day if I were to sync an album but I don't have my Mac with me. For instance, I'm at a friend's house and he has a Windows desktop. How would I sync that album? All my current songs on my iPod are gonna lose right? How do I sync that album without deleting my entire music library from my iPod?
  2. One day my Mac's gonna be out of storage for sure. I download at least 5 albums a day so it's gonna take up my storage really fast. What do I do then? I don't wanna delete any of my songs. If I were to lose even one of my songs, I couldn't sleep. How do I sync new albums to my iPod?


This is probably the stupidest question the Apple community will ever see but, help me. PLEASE

Posted on Oct 4, 2023 7:53 AM

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Posted on Oct 4, 2023 8:23 AM

Hi,


  1. You can only sync your iPod with a single library. You can potentially copy that library to an external drive so you could modify your library on another computer running the same version of iTunes, but switching platforms is tricky, and you should generally sync from a computer that is authorized to your Apple ID. You shouldn't authorize computers you don't control. Assuming that you friend can legitimately share the tracks in question the best method is to copy them to say a USB drive, then actually add them to your iPod using your own library at home.
  2. Backup what you have now to an external drive. Move your library to an external drive with room for expansion and then back that drive up to another one.


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Oct 4, 2023 8:23 AM in response to chamathm1

Hi,


  1. You can only sync your iPod with a single library. You can potentially copy that library to an external drive so you could modify your library on another computer running the same version of iTunes, but switching platforms is tricky, and you should generally sync from a computer that is authorized to your Apple ID. You shouldn't authorize computers you don't control. Assuming that you friend can legitimately share the tracks in question the best method is to copy them to say a USB drive, then actually add them to your iPod using your own library at home.
  2. Backup what you have now to an external drive. Move your library to an external drive with room for expansion and then back that drive up to another one.


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