Apple has done a pretty good job of taking Job’s first few iPOD interfaces (which were good) and turning them into interfaces which compete with Microsoft for awfulness.
Heck, I can no longer find the place to purchase new tunes in my iPod, and believe me, I’ve looked.
Was the itunes account used to load the original music the same as the account being used now? If not, that’s the problem. You can only have one account using an iPod.
Buy a generic MP3 player without the proprietary interfaces or just put a sd memory card in your phone and download your tunes to that.
The only way I know of to get music on an iPod or iPad is via iTunes.
Stick with the original account, or:
Stick with the new account.
Hope this helps!
Pound them in with a hammer......LOL!
Supposedly I can play music from my smart phone on my car's system........Smart phones are only for smart people
I’ve got a Samsung Mega, I rip my old CDs to my laptop and transfer them to my phone. No problems and I don’t have to pay anyone for my music.
Several years ago I buy an I Pad from a relative. I had problems too. I called the help line of Apple and asked for help. They of course wanted to charge me some kind of charge around 30 dollars. That’s Apple for you. I asked for a manage and gave them a sad story about being on a fixed income and needed help. I stressed I was old and needed someone to talk slow and please help me syn by I Pad. They patiently helped me every time I called and went through this story. No, I’m not embarrassed to say I did this because they shouldn’t treat their customers as one with money.
Sorry, sit by your computer when you call so they can talk you through it. They will help get the music from your library and put others in. Hope this helps.
Ok - so you are going to have a significant issue here as your itunes on your computer is likely the latest version. If the iPod is prior to the last (2?) generation it likely cannot take the latest itunes software updates and that means you can’t sync with your computer anymore - I ran into the same issue with my version 1 about 2 years ago.
Easiest option is to sign into itunes by wifi on the ipod itself instead of via the computer. I think that still works. Other option would be to email yourself the file and then open it on the ipod and try that.
Save your money and download the free app Pandora. It’ll play various songs based on a preferred genre or artist. Every once in a while you’ll be asked to upgrade to a commercial-free version - but it is not necessary.
Try that!
Rather than “sync” you can just leave it set for “manually manage audio”
Then, inside of iTunes, just drag the new tracks from the library to the iPod (Depending on your computer’s operating system, etc.)
All such things change with each update...
There are also various free apps which might let you get things off of the iPod (again, depending on versions, etc.) I used to use a thing called “Senuti” for that (iTunes spelled backwards!) which was a Mac app.
My biggest suggestion would be that if your kids gave it to her and helped put the music on it in the first place, ask them for help.
Unfortunately, iTunes is set up, ahem, discourage piracy, and if you no longer have the original computer with the original songs on it, it will try to remove them. Same as other people said about using different accounts, authorizing, etc.
If you (or they) no longer have the computer, someone will have to gather all those pieces of music back together (from whatever sources) and place them on your new iTunes account so that they can be loaded on your ipod when it syncs. This is not trivial. If you can beg one of your kids to do this for you, thank them profusely and buy them a pizza.
In the future, whether you continue with an ipod, or acquire a different device, you really need to keep and take care of your music library. Place it in a special directory, make backups, keep it organized. That way, you can enjoy your music trouble free for many years to come.
Best of luck to you.
When I inherited my Ipod from my daughter, I faced the same problem. Your kids probably installed the music, using THIER OWN computer, rather than your computer. Sooo..that Ipod is registered on THEIR computer only.
You’ve downloaded and installed the ITUNES software..
(please note that I use ITUNES 11 plus...why? Because it works well.. I don’t like to upgrade software when the present software WORKS WELL.)
BUT.. BEFORE pulling up ITUNES, (before starting the software) FIRST, plug in the IPOD, into the USB port on your computer...THEN start the ITUNES software.. the ITUNES software SHOULD then automatically go to the screen that asks you to REGISTER the Ipod..so, Register the Ipod on your own computer.
Scroll down a bit. Do you see the word OPTIONS? Do you also see the words (located below the word OPTIONS) “SYNC ONLY CHECKED SONGS AND VIDEOS”.. click “SYNC ONLY CHECKED SONGS AND VIDEOS”.
Next..look at the TOP of the software.. Do you see the word, MUSIC? Click MUSIC.
Doing so will open another window or screen. Be sure that “SELECTED PLAYLISTS, ARTISTS, ALBUMS, and GENRES are checked.
Do you see the words, ARTISTS on the RIGHT SIDE of your screen or window? Make sure that all the ARTISTS listsed there are checked.. (this would include the music that your kids previously put on the Ipod.)
Next.. Scroll down the screen again.. do you also see the word ALBUMS? Click ALL the albums listed there.. If you click the ARTISTS and the ALBUMS listed there.. then ITUNES will NOT DELETE the music that your kids put on the Ipod.
Of course, the same holds true of the PLAYLISTS and GENRES listed. Be sure to check those playlists and genres that you wish to keep.
NOW.. scroll to the very bottom of the screen or window.. Do you see the word APPLY? Click APPLY.. ITUNES will then automatically SYNC the music that you’ve checked to your Ipod.This procedure will take a few minutes to complete, depending on the number and content of the albums you’ve checked in the lists. So, be patient.
Now.. how in the world does one get their music on ITUNES to be able to allow ITUNES to put that music on your IPOD ?
There’s any number of softwares that are available to RIP your cd’s to Mp3 format... here’s the one that I use.. it’s a FREE software, called FREERIP (go to www.freerip.com ) you can download the FREE version, or go for the Premium version, which costs money.
Download and install FreeRip. It’s generally recommended to read the TUTORIAL.. to find out how to use it.
Once you’ve mastered how to use FREERIP..(it’s easy..but READ the TUTORIAL) then, you can RIP each of your individual albums in Mp3 format to a single individual folder for each album. Again, READ THE TUTORIAL to learn how to do this. Oh, yes..be SURE to LABEL each folder with the TITLE of each ALBUM that the folder contains.
How do we place each individual album folder into ITUNES? FIRST.. go back to ITUNES...
Look carefully ..do you see the word “FILE” on the UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER of ITUNES? Click “FILE”...a menu will appear. Look carefully ..do you see the words, “ADD FOLDER TO LIBRARY”? Click “ADD FOLDER TO LIBRARY”.. another window that contains the DIRECTORY of your computer Hard drive will appear. Simply NAVIGATE to the location of each FOLDER with your music in it.. click that folder, THEN Click “SELECT FOLDER”.. that folder will then automatically be added to the ITUNES library. Repeat this procedure to add each individual folder.
Now, here’s a great TUTORIAL video from youtube, which explains How to use ITUNES 12. It’s a bit lengthy at 50 minutes.. but this video contains a tutorial that’s probably a LOT better than my own instructions.. check it out~ = https://youtu.be/7u4iWUNXsRg