Once you have restored your iPod to its factory settings, you’ll want to reload all the information such as songs and videos that were once on your iPod device. If you have backed your information up to the computer, you should have no problems in reloading the songs and videos that were originally on your iPod. In many cases, individuals keep all their information from the iPod backup just in case they ever have to perform a system restore. In the case of the iPod restore, the backing up of files is fairly straight forward on a computer that uses iTunes and is a host to the iPod itself. In many cases, the iTunes itself acts as the backup and keeps a complete archive of all of your files. Unfortunately, because Apple is in the business of distributing music as well as manufacturing MP3 players and other hardware, they are required to feature a digital rights management setup, or DRM. For those who are unaware, this means that the songs that are available to you on your iTunes playlists are very closely monitored and not allowed to be distributed amongst a wide network.
What this means to you is that you can have a very difficult time of moving your music and video files from one computer to another using the iPod itself. This particular caveat is most noticeable when you move from an old computer to a newer computer and you wish to move your entire music library over. Because of the fact that Apple perceives a new computer as a second, illegal device, it will not allow you to move these types of files unless you have de-authorized the original computer and authorized the new computer. While these processes are certainly straightforward and legitimate, they can cause all manner of difficulties for individuals who are hoping to keep their music library on both computers. This only makes sense, as you never know when you might want to listen to your favorite song. While Apple certainly does not plan for all this, and certainly isn’t about to support the concept of keeping multiple songs on different computers, there are ways to work around this particular caveat.
First and foremost, if you do not wish to authorize and de-authorize computers all day, you will be forced to remove the digital rights management content from the songs and videos that you have on your computer’s hard drive. While this particular technical hurdle is outside the scope of this article, it is a fairly straightforward process that you can learn about in detail almost anywhere on the Internet.
Once you have completed this step, you can simply use the iPod itself as the transfer device. Simply connect the iPod to your computer and enable disk use. This will allow the iPod to act as storage so that it can manually manage your songs and playlists. Go to the preferences found under the edit button on a Windows PC or under iTunes on a Mac. Click on advanced and click copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library. Providing that the iPod has plenty of space you’re all set. On the advanced menu, click consolidate Library and put all of the music into a single iTunes folder. Simply drop this folder onto your iPod, which will act like a hard drive and allow you to move the folder onto another iTunes enabled computer.
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