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Another simple solution for those who want to use their iPods on other people's computers without it turning into some sort of sync nightmare...

I too started with songs on different drives, organized in many folders, etc. - until one day I asked myself, "what on earth is the problem with allowing iTunes to organize all of this into one big music folder?" Hmmm.... as long as the drive on which that folder resides is big enough, the answer is NOTHING except to…

I recall vividly my first grade teacher telling us that she will show us a rhyme that we would never forget, "30 days have September..." etc. I was a rebellious little kid in 1964 and I remember putting my hands over my ears to prevent the lesson from getting through.

My point is simply that portable media players - be they iPods or something else - provide a pretty darn trouble-free way of listening anywhere I go that doesn't eat into my overworked T1 line here at the office. If I want something else, I also have replicas of my library on several portable hard drives.

After 17 years of marriage to one another we decided that Windows was too much to bear. We have had an amicable divorce and agreed that we would only visit Windows at work, while at home the new iMac and iBook remind us of the love we share.

I use a revolutionary device for listening to my iTunes library when I am away from my computer(s).

If you allow iTunes to write all library data to some shared location (and have it manage music data locations) then one shouldn't need to do anything else.

Partly, this comes down to a decision: I am going to be cheap, or am I going to be fair?

As a musician and producer (now semi-retired I suppose) I strongly support means that allow artists to be paid. Does that mean that I accept no unpaid downloads? No, not quite - but a reasonable balance must be struck. The RIAA is only interested in keeping the suits in business. Total free downloads everywhere is not…

I've thought about this a lot - I have quite a few CDs (approx. 600) and quite a few ITMS downloads (about 4GB worth) and an eMusic subscription to boot.

Many comments, some potentially dangerous. Here is my take as an engineer:

I am sure that many on this comment thread have done this same thing manually with CD-Rs. It can be quite successful if properly managed, but the first question to ask (and answer) is: why am I doing this?