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Any app to download that will let me use my IPOD as an external HDD?

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niwi7

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I purchased a Macbook but it only has an 80 gig HDD with about 50 gigs left. I have 40 gigs of music on my desktop computer. Is it possible as a temporary solution to hook my ipod up to my computer and listen to music off of it, and download new music onto it...almost the same thing I woudl do as if I had an external HDD for music? Thanks
 
no need for sarcasm but thanks for the reply. Um unless I am missing something my Ipod will not let me update the songs or listen to them because it is still linked to my desktop computer and if i link it to this computer it will actually delete my songs. so thats why i was asking for a thrird party program to let me listen to songs from my ipod and put new ones on iwthout linkibng it to my itunes library.
 
Well then when the option to link with the computer comes up chose no. Then you can listen to the songs on the ipod.
 
I know you can use gtkpod in linux, not sure about windows.

The ipod's hard drive uses the hfs(+?) filesystem iirc. I think the linux world has a lot of programs that can access this partition. However, if you were to look for a program in windows to add files to your ipod, look for one that can access hfs partitions. A quick google turned up XPlay.
 
though i'm not sure why you'd do it, seems redundant, if you want to listen to music use the ipod since its already there. does your laptop have a line in? if u want to use the built in speakers for some weird werid reason?
 
Go to your preferences in itunes. Click on iPod: Music. Make sure the circle "manually something" is checked. Now you will be able to click on a song to play it, and you can move songs onto your ipod.
 
Dunno why you would need an application to do this. You can usually see your IPOD as a seperate hard drive and simply create a new folder on it and dump all your files into it. Itunes won't recognize them as songs in your library, but you could play them from winamp or whatever.
 
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