Roy writes:

> All you guys are missing the point that he wants to get the tunes off 
> his iPod.
>  
> iTunes won't do that, except for purchased tunes you load directly on 
> the iPod from the iTunes Store.
>  
> Sometimes, people find themselves with a hosed PC where the PC was 
> holding the iTunes library. They still have the tunes on their iPod, but 
> no way to return them to the mothership :-(

I'm not sure that that's true any longer. 

Paul Scott said that he's never bought any songs from iTunes, and that was 
true for me too until, in one update a few months ago, Apple put iTunes on 
the iPhone.  I decided, what the heck, I'll spend a dollar or two and see how it 
works. 

Unfortunately, it worked so well that it became addictive. iTunes on the 
iPhone is the best designed database interface that I have ever seen. Two 
million songs at your fingertips, with absolutely superior cover art.

I now have 334 songs on my iPhone, Mussorsky and Mozart, Moe Bandy and 
the Mamas and the Papas, almost all of them downloaded through the iPhone. 
Even more importantly, when I dock the iPhone with the particular Mac that I 
use as a central repository, it automatically downloads the files first from the 
iPhone to the Mac and then uploads any new songs/videos that I may have 
purchased using the Mac version of iTunes, so that everyone is in sync.

Apple had to make the new versions of iTunes work this way if they were 
going to support iTunes on the iPhone.

After I've synched these two machines, I connect the other iPod machines 
that we have, and they too are automatically synched with the Mac's newly 
merged library.

Although I haven't tried it, I'm sure that if the Mac died, redocking the iPhone 
into a new PC/Mac would automatically restore the iTunes library. It does 
essentially that now, but only for the delta changes.

There's no reason that our 5th Generation video iPods can't work the same 
way (it is, after all only a small matter of software), but I've never had the 
occasion to find out if the 5th Generation iPods will automatically refresh an 
empty PC/Mac iTunes library the way the iPhone does.

Wirt Atmar

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