iTunes help for ergotia?

[ciphergoth]

A slightly geeky questions on behalf of ergotia. She's just installed iTunes so she can use the iPod she got for Xmas, but it seems to have a problem fetching track title information from the Gracenote database - the message flashes up that it's accessing Gracenote, but when the dialog goes away, it still shows "track 01, track 02" as before. We're running ZoneAlarm and we've disabled Windows Firewall, but ZoneAlarm isn't blocking iTunes. Any ideas what we can try? Running XP SP2. Thanks!

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[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

iPods have many features designed to make it harder for people to share music. Jess fortunately has an iRiver which it's much easier to do these things with. For example, if Jess visits you, you can use your computer to copy music from her iRiver onto your iPod. But if Lisa visits, the two of you will not be able to share the music you are carrying.

Make sure you configure iTunes to encode CDs as MP3s rather than any other file format, otherwise sharing music will be practically impossible.

[devilgate.livejournal.com]

iRivers rock, I'd just like to say.

[topbit.livejournal.com]

I bought a 1gb flash iRiver a couple of weeks ago. The battery life on a Duracell is nothing short of stupendous, though I've had a little less luck with recording voices in anything other than a crowded environment.

[aegidian]

There are plenty of freeware and shareware utilities to get music files off an iPod. There are the means for stripping DRM from m4p files too.

I imagine biggest drawback is the lack of any ogg vorbis playback on the iPod (you can plug iTunes to do it, but the iPod's not such an system to modify - using linux on the iPod will do it though and you can dual-boot it).

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

cool - post us some links then!

[aegidian]

And ogg vorbis for iTunes (quicktime plug in)

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41359

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[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

iPod file utilities:-

http://www.versiontracker.com/php/search.php?mode=basic&action=search&str=ipod&plt%5B%5D=windows&x=15&y=8

De-DRM your iTMS files:-

http://hymn-project.org/

Linux on iPod:-

http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

Re: De-snarked links

[aegidian]

Whether comment deletion is more or less rude than suggesting someone use Google is perhaps a matter for discussion elsewhere, but I feel I'm a gruntle or two fewer than I was.