Ipod help

[TOM M]

Ive had my ipod for nearly 2 years now and have always used it on my apple mac laptop. But because of the laptops fairly small memory, i have always scanned the music into itunes, transferred it to the ipod then deleted the songs off the laptop.
Itunes was set to manual update so i had to transfer the songs manually to stop it deleting the songs off the ipod when i plugged it in, because i always delete them off the laptop.

I now hardly ever use the apple because ive got a new windows laptop. Is there a way i can use the ipod on my windows pc without it deleting the songs off the ipod??

Cheers
Tom
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[iCraig]

Use iTunes on windows, and check manual updating in the preferences on that! Simple as!

[Whosthedaddy]

I dint understand the problem? Sure the iTunes is a pain in the arse to trasnfer songs as I seem to get loads of duplicate ones, easily selected and deleted but it seems far simplier than the wifes Sony Walkman
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[T1z3R]

the only problem you might encounter is if the ipod is a mac format 1st gen...then i dont think you can use it on a PC without losing your music as it will need to be flashed for use on a PC which wipes the drive.

if its a later model then it should work on both PC & MAC so just hook it up to to itunes.
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[Rookie]

Surely the worse problem here is that it's going to delete all the songs because it's on a different PC? Part of Apple's copyright thingie is that the iPod can't have songs from more than 1 computer on it.

If this is the problem, there's a great little program called SharePod. I use it to share files with my friends. You just download it, copy it to the iPod itself, and run it from there on the new PC. Absolutely brilliant.