Ok, as far as I know a comuter that can run iTunes can also run QuickTime.
You get it seperately here! If that makes problems, uninstall iTunes and install it with QuickTime. You need at least Windows 2000/XP or Mac OS X, but then it should work.
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The multiple computers issue:
Apple is forced to keep you from transferring music from library to library because it is illegal!
But they did not establish an extremely good protection and there are several ways to transfer music anyway.
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1. of all your iPod can also be used as an exterior hard drive (because this is what it is
)
The probably easiest way, is to copy the music you want to transfer on the hard drive (without using iTunes). This way you keep the folder structure and you can transfer it to any other computer.
Be sure to copy the Music to a
newly created folder on first instance of the ipod, so that the folder path is: mypod>mynewfolder>**music**
Of course you can copy whatever, not only music. Don't copy it into one of the existing folders. That is difficult because some folders are shown on windows (with different invisibility settings) but not on mac and vice versa.
Advantage: easy to do and the other computer does not even need iTunes.
Disadvantage: Music can NOT be played with the iPod and if it is a lot and you don't want to delete the original iPod music database you might not have enough space.
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2. The music you have on your iPod, which is playable, can also be copied from the iPod. It is not that well protected (it was not, on the iPod photo, but I don't know about iPod nano).
The music is in an invisible folder. On windows you can show it using the "View"-options and on mac you do it with the Terminal or a third party application. If can point you to some if you want to.
Advantage: Music can be played on the iPod and be accessed over iTunes on one of the computers.
Disadvantage: The music files do not have a file organization at all. They are stored in folders by the name of "F00" till "F99" without any sorting. If you need only a particular song and you know its name, it will be easy to find, but if you want all albums by one artist, get ready for some t e d i o u s work!
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3. Use
Xplay by MediafourI used it once in the tryout mode (has full functionality I think) and it worked fine (but slow) for me.
It will organize your iPod into a nice folder structure and you can take and give the music you want. No need for iTunes.
Advantages: no need for iTunes, files can be heard on the iPod, both computers can access them like you want to (also with iTunes still)
Disadvantage: third party application needed, does NOT exist for Mac OS X and it is neither free nor open source, so it might be quite a little behind current development all the time (driver updates etc.)
Maybe someone who has more experience with the app can say a little more.
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You should not steal music!
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