From Win to Mac

Rich-
Maby you had a bad experience. I have a 15 GB iPod formatted with windows (I use Ephpod). I plug my iPod into my new iMac sometimes to charge it and to play music off it in iTunes. It doesn't change any of the iPod's settings, it is perfectly fine to use it with a Mac. It will not format unless you specifically tell it to.

Originally posted by mongoos150
Rich-
Maby you had a bad experience. I have a 15 GB iPod formatted with windows (I use Ephpod). I plug my iPod into my new iMac sometimes to charge it and to play music off it in iTunes. It doesn't change any of the iPod's settings, it is perfectly fine to use it with a Mac. It will not format unless you specifically tell it to. Yes, it will play the music when plugged into a Mac, but have you tried to add a track to the iPod with your iMac?

I agree that just plugging it in will do nothing, and that it won't format the iPod unless you tell it to. However, I'm talking about adding new music to it as well, basically use it as it was intended, but on both platforms.

I never said that mine was reformatted, just the tracks that were on it wouldn't play after I transfered a new track to it using my iBook.

Originally posted by Rich
Yes, it will play the music when plugged into a Mac, but have you tried to add a track to the iPod with your iMac?

I agree that just plugging it in will do nothing, and that it won't format the iPod unless you tell it to. However, I'm talking about adding new music to it as well, basically use it as it was intended, but on both platforms.



Well... a couple of weeks ago, I took my Win 3G 15 gig iPod to my brother's and hooked it to his Mac G3 running OS 9.2 with iTunes 2.1.
iTunes saw my library on the iPod and I was able to use it to rip a CD he had and add the mp3s to my iPod. Everything worked fine on the iPod after that.
I later used Ephpod to copy those mp3s back to my 2000 machine and i was able to sucessfully play at least two of those tracks in Winamp and Musicmatch (I've been using MM for tag editing and initial playlist building).

Originally posted by mongoos150
That's crazy. Must be because it's an older mac with an older version of iTunes.

well, my other brother recently got a G4 with OS X and iTunes 4 on it so I'll have to try it on his machine sometime.
What's the worst that can happen? I have erase and reload my iPod? BFD...

Can I rip my winpod's songs to a mac?
I'm gettin a 12 inch powerbook and I want to easily transfer my songs.

this happend to me this weekend, i plugged my new 15 gig 3rd gen into a friend of mine's g4 ibook, ituunes saw things fine, played a couple of tracks, unplugged the pod, and NOTHING WOULD PLAY ANYMORE! all the files were still there but it wouldn't play any of them, i was highly upset since i was in the middle of a 4 day rode trip and had another 8 hours of driving ahead of me, heh

oh well, i i'm resyching it now after formating, should be fine

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I don't know of a work around but I tried hooking up my WinPod to an iBook running OS X 10.2. My brother accidently launched iTunes and it appeared to wipe all my music off the WinPod.
Would this have been because of the autosync function?

Has anyone tried to use gtkpod on a mac to access a windows-formatted ipod? Though I haven't tried this, it seems like it should work if you have both a mac and pc and don't want to go through the trouble of reformatting your pod to play nicely with a mac.