Re: [iPad] Ways to manage iPod Music easily anybody have any favorites?

 

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@xtra.co.nz> 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@gmail.com>
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. 

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On Jul 1, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Charles Carroll <911@learnasp.com> 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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