<p>I am probably one of the few people who does not own an ipod, nor have I ever even listened to one.
I want to get a gift for a young woman who has befriended my younger D over the last few years. She is self supporting and trying to get a college education. She has an opportunity to travel plus make some money this fall. We want to give her a going away gift.
I thought an Ipod would be great but the young woman does not own her own computer. I was thinking that we could buy an IPOD Nano and load it for her with music that we thought she would like.
A few questions-
1.can you charge an Ipod by just plugging it into a outlet or do you need an additional adapter of some sort. I know my kids use an ipod radio to charge their ipod but I know this girl will not have something like that.
2.Can I put songs on it that my kids have already purchased through Itunes?</p>
<li>Can she set up her own Itunes account and load more music from someone else’s computer?
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<li>You need a cord to plug it into the computer–itll come with it.
2,3. As above.</li>
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<p>You could also get one of the other mp3 players as many are (in my opinion) easier to use–the computer sees them as hard drives and thus you can just drag songs onto them without using special software. But if you use itunes already you might as go for the ipod.</p>
<p>1) Yes you can charge an ipod by plugging it into the wall. It is an additional part (probably $15).</p>
<p>2) While you can load music onto her ipod that your kids have purchased via itunes, it is 1) not legal (your kids have purchased the music for their use and the license is not extendable to other people) and 2) Not easy to do. What easier is to load music off of CDs - which if she owns the CD is perfectly legal. </p>
<p>3) There are really two portions of itunes - one that runs on the apple servers and is basically just how much money you have left to spend. The other runs on the local computer and is where the music is stored. While you can download on another computer, again it is not easy.</p>
<p>I don’t want to discourage you from getting her an iPod - it is a great gift for someone who is traveling - and for young people of all ages. In fact it is my favorite gadget - one of the better things made this century (e.g. the last 7+ years). </p>
<p>What I would suggest is giving her the ipod as well as making time and a computer available for her to load it with music from any CDs that she might have as well as an itunes gift card that will allow her to select some new music to load as well. </p>
<p>Once the ipod is loaded, she will probably be just fine with the music that is on it for a long time. I know that my travel ipod (it lives in my carry on bag for long airplane rides) does not get updated more than once or twice a year. My other one is built into my phone (an iPhone) and so it get updated more frequently - but still does not NEED fresh music more than occasionally.</p>
<p>Hope this helps - feel free to ask additional questions.</p>
<p>OK - on 2 and 3 it is easy if you use the other persons name and password!!! I was thinking in terms of without getting into their accounts It is still not legal.</p>
<p>There are power adaptors to charge ipods using a wall outlet. I believe the ipod used to come with the charger, but if not one can be purchase for around $29 I think.</p>
<p>Songs purchased through itunes can be put onto a maximum of 5 different computers/ipods I believe.</p>
<p>She can get her own itunes account so that she can add other music later. Just be careful when you initially set up the ipod that you not link it to your computer specifically, or else she will have trouble sharing music from other peoples computers. Search the apple website for more info if need be on this topic. </p>
<p>Nice gift! I love mine; its a great way to store and listen to lots of music, t.v. shows, movies, but also to share with others. Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks. So I would have to buy her an additional part to charge without a computer.
I think she has shipped all her belongings to a relative out of state. I don’t know if that included CD’s. If she later had her CD’s could she then put them on her IPOD if I did the initial loading on my home computer. I apologize if this is a stupid question. Could she then easily add more music herself if she had access to a computer while traveling or if in the future she had her own computer?
I haven’t run this by my kids yet and I am sure they will have some idea how to make this work.</p>
<p>instead of an ipod which I think would be a hass;e without a computer- how about a prepaid cell phone?
You could get one she could load music to, plus it would make her travel easier and possibly safer.</p>
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<li><p>Yes. The it’s called a USB charger/adapter. One end plugs into the wall, the other into the ipod. It’s available from Apple for too much money or elsewhere. I haven’t priced them lately, but probably $10 to $20 for a generic charger. It’s just a 5 volt DC wall-wart power supply with a USB plug on the end.</p></li>
<li><p>If you are new to it, let your kids figure out how to get music on her ipod. The so-called “intuitive” Apple logic is actually quite inscrutible and nearly impossible to explain.</p></li>
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<p>Not a stupid question. This is not easily done without losing the existing music that may not be on the new PC. IMO, an Ipod without a computer is probably not a great idea, unless you get one of the “Touch” ones with WiFi, but then you’re going up in price quite a bit. How about getting her an inexpensive or used laptop instead?</p>
<p>Yes. I was having to really think about whether that would be possible or not. If I recall from the time we had to move an iPod from my computer to my daughter’s to work around a USB port failure, it required completely re-assigning the iPod to the new computer. I can’t remember if it would even do that without wiping the contents on the iPod from the old computer.</p>
<p>I’m not going to test it, either. My experience has been that if your iPod is synching properly (as ours is now), thank your lucky stars and don’t rock the boat. I get the heebie-jeebies everytime Apple issues an iTunes software “upgrade” for fear they have broken it again.</p>
It is still not legal.</p>