ipod music transfer

[mollymoo]

Hi I have a PC rather then a mac. In the past on other mp3 players I simply pull across the files I want onto the removable disk drive and then can see what I want to delete and keep. However, when I move files into itunes to add to ipod it deletes an I have removed form that playlist and therefore have just the new ones. Is there a way on a PC that I can simple add new tunes to my ipod without using itunes, or not having to move all my new songs to itunes everytime. If I am trasfering songs from a cd i do not want to keep them on my PC wasting space, but if they are not in the song libaray bank then they get deleted off the ipod. I hope all this makes sense. please help thanks

[JSB]

I'm researching this at the moment and it seems that ITunes and IPods use MPEG4 not MP3 so the answer is no!

IRiver and Creative's Zen do what you want but I guess you've got the IPod now and don't want to change.

My advice on the deletion stakes is either don't or back up to DVD.  Nothing worse than re-digitising your entire collection (which on my collection ITunes tells me will run uninterrupted or repeated for 18 days!)

[PlainJane]

Go to the iPod menu > Preferences > iPod and uncheck the "automatically update all songs and playlists" option.
iTunes supports AAC, AIFF, MP3, ALE, and WAV

[blueseame]

You can try Tansee iPod Transfer which can backup songs and videos in iPod to PC, copy iPod songs and videos to new ipod, computer or notebook.
http://www.dvd-video-converters.com/ipodconver ter/tansee-ipod-transfer.html

[mlinbinbin]

Here is a guide on how to transfer music from ipod to mac.
http://www.ipodtomac....from-ipod-to-mac.html
You can have a try.