how do i make my iTouch

Troublesome

appear in my removable devices/hardware? it only like comes up on itunes but not on my actual computer

also once i do that is it possible to just drag songs off the ipod on to the computer?

thx

Kid Nothing

There is no drag and drop facility on the iPod Touch and due to it being a flash drive it won't show up as a device like a hard-drive based iPod might.

Creamy Goodness

just to confirm, it's not because it's a flash based drive that it doesn't show up in add/remove hardware.

other flash drives do, apple have just coded into the firmware that ipod touch etc don't.

Blazer

There is software though that will allow you to copy to and from the itouch exactly like drag and drop.
It's called Touchcopy as far as I can remember.

Troublesome

ah all sorted, found a tutorial on youtube and used a program called touchcopy which is pretty small and easy to use

problem solved

towel401

wtf is it with ipods not having this feature? i dont get it why should i have to install some 3rd party firmware on my iPod to avoid having to use itunes or some other software

Kid Nothing

towel401 wrote: »

wtf is it with ipods not having this feature? i dont get it why should i have to install some 3rd party firmware on my iPod to avoid having to use itunes or some other software

Because Apple prefer if all their users use their iPods with their own software (i.e. iTunes) as opposed to 3rd party ones to:
a) boost the number of users of iTunes
b) promote the iTunes Store where they can make more revenue
c) ensure their product is being used as it was intended with their fimrware and programs, i could be wrong but i'd be pretty sure that using Rockbox, etc would void your warranty

ethernet

And it's a solid-state drive. Only a limited number of write operations before it gives up the ghost. Don't want to accelerate that so that easy solution is to remove the functionality to use the iPod as a mass storage device.