ipod question

[ramonesfreak]

im using a PC. this is the situation. on my external hard drive i have about 200gig of music. my computer's hardrive is full with about 90gig of music.

what i want to do is transfer the music that is on the external drive to the ipod. this is mostly music that is NOT on my computer's hard drive.

the question is this: can I drag folders of MP3's from the external drive to the ipod directly without doing the usual..."add folder to library" via itunes? the reason obviously is that i have no room left on the computer with which to add more folders

thanks

[gprsh924]

Yes you can drag directly from any folder and drop it onto the iPod. The music does not have to be in itunes to get on to the ipod.

[JavaBrewer]

Under iTunes preferences, the Advanced tab, there are settings for the media folder location and organization. There is a "Copy files to iTunes media folder when adding to library" checkbox. If you un-check that iTunes should just reference the mp3 files that you import directly from where they currently live.

[pwd72s]

Just printed the above out...going to be getting an Ipod soon. Thanks!

[ramonesfreak]

Originally Posted by gprsh924

Yes you can drag directly from any folder and drop it onto the iPod. The music does not have to be in itunes to get on to the ipod.

didnt work on the 160 classic. it does work on the older ones

[ramonesfreak]

Originally Posted by JavaBrewer

Under iTunes preferences, the Advanced tab, there are settings for the media folder location and organization. There is a "Copy files to iTunes media folder when adding to library" checkbox. If you un-check that iTunes should just reference the mp3 files that you import directly from where they currently live.

this worked! thanks...