MacFixIt reader Scott Rose reports some odd behavior (that may be by design) from the iPod Shuffle, where the device will not mount on the desktop, nor appear in iTunes if it is changed from its ...

If you are close to my age, you have probably made at least one mix tape in your day to give to a friend. It might have described the meaning of your essence as a human being through power ballads, or ...

Our fellow editor at the naughty Fleshbot suffered a catastrophic hard drive crash that killed every file in sight, and needs our help piecing things together. Dashiell writes: So I lost my entire ...

The iPod's greatest charm is its ease of use. Dumping your entire music collection onto one of the devices is close to automatic -- a simple one-click process. But what about getting music off an iPod ...

Windows only: The bigger your iTunes library, the more difficult it is to locate and fix problems that arise, whether you're faced with ratings gone awry, missing or duplicate tracks, or missing album ...

At the time, the community was still searching for iPod owners with syncable copies of the last few titles needed for their ...

Plug your iPod into the computer that has your main library and open iTunes. (This is the computer that your iPod is synced with already and has all your files and other media.) Click on your iPod ...

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When you look at the four buttons, single scroll wheel, and intuitive interface of Apple’s iPod, you might believe that there’s nothing more to it than plug, play, and rock out. Not so. The iPod has ...

Digital photos can take up a lot of hard drive space, so it's sometimes beneficial to keep your photo libraries on an external hard drive instead of on your computer's internal drive. If your company ...