Please either answer the question or stay out of the thread. Your rudeness is uncalled for. I own a TON of music as does my GF. We have never downloaded any illegal music, we just buy used/new CDs from Amazon (and in old days from record stores) and we transfer to iTunes. My kids are still forming musical tastes and enjoy a lot of the songs she and I like and hate others, but getting all our CDS on their devices will let them sample and decide what they love and hate and delete what they dislike.
Me and my GF both like a lot of the same music as do me and my son and daughter (who are 13 and 15). Over time we all 4 will remove music we don't care about off our devices, but I just need a tool to manage it all. Of course among me and GF's collection we have lots of dupe CDs we burned, and we want to listen to each other's music we have not a had a chance to listen to by digging through thousands of CDs. We just want it on our devices and then we can decide what we like. My kids musical tastes do and will differ from mine but if they start with a full set of me and GF's songs they can whittle it down and delete what they dislike. All this is to avoid having to handle hundreds of CDS we burned to iTunes and stored long ago.
For example I have a 1,500+ CD collection and I have burned them across 4 different Windows machines over the year and I want to consolidate and de-dupe. To do so, I need to gather them from 4 drives and get them all in one place. She has probably burned a few 100 CDS into iTunes as well.Me and my GF both like a lot of the same music as do me and my son and daughter (who are 13 and 15). Over time we all 4 will remove music we don't care about off our devices, but I just need a tool to manage it all. Of course among me and GF's collection we have lots of dupe CDs we burned, and we want to listen to each other's music we have not a had a chance to listen to by digging through thousands of CDs. We just want it on our devices and then we can decide what we like. My kids musical tastes do and will differ from mine but if they start with a full set of me and GF's songs they can whittle it down and delete what they dislike. All this is to avoid having to handle hundreds of CDS we burned to iTunes and stored long ago.
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:20 PM, petefromflorida <petefromflorida@gmail.com> wrote:
Let your girlfriend and your kids get their own music. Chances are they don't like the same music anyway. If they do like some of your music then loan them a CD and let them make their own copies.
Pete
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, Charles Carroll <911@...> wrote:
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> I have 4 iPods that have a variety of music on them.
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> I have 3 computers hard disks that have a variety of music burned to
> them via Itunes from CD.
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> 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
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> and also transfer to iTunes on my iPad, and my Windows7 BootCamp and
> my Mac OSX and my Nexus 10.
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> 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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