A couple of years ago I copied everything to Windows Media which can be accessed by multiple iTunes accounts.
Pete
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, Charles Carroll <911@...> wrote:
>
> So far with MediaMonkey's klunky UI I can import the contents of iTunes on
> several devices into a folder each, and copy all the files of my 4 iPods
> into 4 directories and then incorporate them all into iTunes and deDupe and
> accomplish the task. And it seems to be able to scan my old XP and Win7
> hard disks I used to boot from I put in USB enclosures and grab their songs
> from iTunes too (those machines disks are where I laboriously burned 1,000+
> CDS too over many months)
>
> With iTunes and iPods it is not obvious how to grab all the music off of
> several iPods, unless I enter MY AppleId with every device many of which
> are attached to other people's Apple accounts (my dead fiancee who died a
> few years ago, an od AppleID I used to use but don't use or have password
> anymore, my current AppleID, my GF's AppleID). In the past 6-10 years ago
> when I tried this, I have seen associating an ID with a device if 2
> accounts are involved to force a sync with device and iTunes and removal of
> songs that are owned by other account, though that may have improved.
>
> I hoped people used a better tool than MediaMonkey UI Wise (CopyTrans
> looked promising but of the dozen article I printed from web reviewing 3rd
> party media managers the reviews were shallow (and the reviewers seemed to
> spend minutes not days with each software package) which made them of
> limited value to decide what to buy. I was hoping someone had some hands on
> time with other tools besides MediaMonkey and could share but seems like no
> one does.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Tony <tdale@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Yes
> >
> > To expand, if you can place ALL files in one iTunes installation, on one
> > computer, you will have ALL files in one place. Ideally, on one computer
> > but you can use a secondary hard disk. Attach one iDevice at a time, all
> > using the dame Apple ID. Check what you wish to sync to each device, that
> > will be remembered. Done.
> >
> > Others, please feel free to add/augment as Charles devices are not always
> > together.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > TonyNZ
> >
> > *From:* Just Murray <krismurray@...>
> > *To:* "iPad@yahoogroups.com" <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, 2 July 2013 2:38 PM
> > *Subject:* Re: [iPad] Ways to manage iPod Music easily anybody have any
> > favorites?
> > **
> >
> > Huh? Just have a huge collection. Select which albums and playlists each
> > iPod iPhone wants. I use iTunes and have multiple iOS devices synchronized.
> > ****
> >
> >
> > ~KLM**
> > \\"I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity" ~Edgar Allan
> > Poe//
> > **On Jul 1, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Charles Carroll <911@...> wrote:**
> > **
> >
> >
> > I have 4 iPods that have a variety of music on them.
> >
> > I have 3 computers hard disks that have a variety of music burned to
> > them via Itunes from CD.
> >
> > I want to combine all of these into 1 giant collection
> > and manage them and burn to 4 iPods: mine, GF, and my 2 kids
> >
> > and also transfer to iTunes on my iPad, and my Windows7 BootCamp and
> > my Mac OSX and my Nexus 10.
> >
> > I did a ton of research (printing a dozen+ articles from the web) and
> > tried some iTunes alternatives and I will say that most side by side
> > reviews of iTunes alternatives are shallow and incomplete.
> >
> > It seems like the FREE or $25 MediaMonkey will do what I want but with
> > the clumsiest most obtuse UI ever built. A UI that make it unclear who
> > is master and who is slave in a sync and since it can delete on slave
> > the possibility of losing songs exist if one makes bad choices (easy
> > to do with such a clunky UI).
> >
> > CopyTrans has better UI but since free version only transfers 100
> > songs it was hard to experiment with the whole UI to see how it will
> > work with many songs and many devices.
> >
> > The software can run on Mac OSX or windows it just has to be easy.
> > Dream software would run on both, but if it has a great UI I can live
> > with Mac OSX only.
> >
> > ****
> >
> >
> >
>
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