Illaass, Thanks for your reply. I had a VAIO laptop for many years. I ripped CDs to the Media Player for years. One day I decided that I wanted an iPod, so I converted my windows music files to apple format so I could sync with iPod. At some point I decided to subscribe to iMatch so I could access the entire library (over 800 CDs) via my iPhone. Now the VAIO laptop is no more. I recently purchased this MacBook Pro (and love it) and when I opened iTunes, all my music showed up (yay!). But apparently I don't have any actual files on the computer of my music; its all in the cloud. Therefore, my iPod Classic (purchased at the time for the 160 GB storage) won't sync. When I was warned that it (iPod) was synced with a different computer (VAIO) and all my music would be erased, I said, sure, so what, here's all my music. So iPod is now erased and I can't sync with the MAC (or rather, the cloud). I figure there must be a way to download from the cloud to the iPod, but Apple support said no, but I could with an iPod Touch. So I buy one (128 GB for $400!). But it won't sync either! Now A-support tells me that to retrieve music from the cloud I must connect my device (MAC and/or iPod Touch), choose the music (album, song, artist one at a time) and click on "make available offline" and then it will download from the cloud. I want the entire library to download with one action, even if it takes two days to download. So there's my whole situation and problem as I have come to understand it. Any suggestions? Thanks again for your time, Tom
