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

[niwi7]

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

 

[smack Down]

Try itunes.

 

[niwi7]

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.

 

[smack Down]

Well then when the option to link with the computer comes up chose no. Then you can listen to the songs on the ipod.

 

[niwi7]

no you can't they are all greyed out anyeone else have any input on this?

 

[SleepWalkerX]

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.

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

You should be able to use a program called Ephpod to connect to unlinked computer without deleting anything.

 

[niwi7]

yea thanks r ephpod and gtkpod or any of these available in mac platform?

 

[0roo0roo]

yamipod?

 

[0roo0roo]

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?

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

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.

 

[skace]

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.