You got an iPod, now what?

Something like the iPod Touch can do so many things, it can be hard to know where to begin.

Year after year, Apple's line of iPod portable media players make for great holiday gifts to give and receive. But whether it's your first iPod or an overdue update, the increasing complexity of the iPod (and the iTunes software behind it) can be challenging to wrap your head around.

To shorten the distance between unboxing and rocking out, I've put together a collection of all the major iPod and iTunes tutorials I've created over the course of the year. Happy holidays.

Just wait till your computer crashes and you can't retrieve your i-tunes music on your new computer (even with a saved library on a flash drive). Apple can stick this product up it's a__.

Thank you for your FUD contribution, Catfish.

Now, why would you, in your ignorance of things Apple, think that would even be a problem?

All you need do is copy your iTunes library from your flash drive, from your Time Machine backup, or from any other proper backup, authorize the new computer with iTunes, and all of your music is back. Done. You are aware that's how its done, aren't you?

Or, if you have all of your iTunes library on an iPod, you can use one of several freeware utilities to copy it back the iPod onto another computer... and authorize that computer for any copy protected purchased music you may have. Of course, most music is no longer DRM protected, or if your music library has been ripped from your own collection of CDs, that might not be an issue.

I will forego suggesting where you can stick your ignorant FUD... but I will suggest you learn a thing or two before you post it again... Merry Christmas.

Dumba$$, each of those options and 37 others were tried. You can stick your Ipod in the same place I told Apple.

You claim this...

But I've done it for clients, using only one or two of those methods. Why can't you?

Others have done it? Why can't you?

If you bought your music from Apple, Apple will re-authorize the downloads. They've done it before, why not for you?

Is it possible that your Flash Drive backup is corrupted?

If your music is on your iPod, it is recoverable. Why does not one of the third party utilities not work for YOU?

Something is very suspicious. Is it a conspiracy against you?

If you have a good backup on your Flash drive, an Apple Genius bar visit can recover it, and authorize your new computer. Have you even bothered?

If your computer merely crashed, the file most likely still exists on your hard drive. It's recoverable through several approaches.

Did your hard drive completely die to the point it could not be read? Were all files completely unreadable?

If not, then the files were recoverable, and your computer was a Mac, then your music would have been easily recoverable.

You've misspelled both iPod and iTunes in two different posts which makes me wonder about your knowledge of the products.

That makes your complaint and attitude suspicious.

Your insulting attitude toward a fellow freeper tells me everything I need to know about your opinion.

It's FUD.

In the meantime, have a Merry Christmas.

Idiot, I had a terabyte drive crash on me and it took my iTunes collection with it.

I’d backed it up to DVD DLs and hey, look, iTunes found the disk upon insert and let me copy them back in. I didn’t even have to reauthorize.

You are full of crap - or more likely, you copied the wrong things and now just blame Apple for your mistakes.

I hope you got coal for Christmas, and not the kind useful for barbecuing.

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