How to Play iPod on Computer

How to Play iPod on Computer

If you want to plays your iPod on a computer that doesn’t have the music locally stored or on a PC at work or at a friend house. Or It may be school, office, outdoors or you could simply lie down in bed with headphones if don't want to disturb the people around you. You could also play the music of your iPod to your personal computer. The secret to playing an iPod on a PC is to set the iPod to manage your music manually. You don’t even have to sync your iPod with the host computer. As an added bonus, playing your iPod on a PC eliminates the different recording levels of various songs.

Once configured, you only need your iPod, the USB sync cable, and a computer with iTunes to implement the hack (the idea being you always have your iPod and the person with the computer has the iPod USB cable). It takes about 20 minutes to set this hack up and then only a few seconds to implement each time you would like to use it. And then connect your iPod to the computer. Wait for your PC to recognize it, afterwards open iTunes.

iPod stores its content through a database methodology. iTunes copies its content to a hidden directory structure and updates the database stored within iPod. This database is used by iTunes and the iPod interface to catalog and index the content. Click the small arrow to the left of the icon displaying your iPod in iTunes, or press the spacebar on your keyboard to play the songs you selected. Select multiple songs. Select the first song, later on your keyboard hold down the "Ctrl" key as you make more selections. To select a group of songs listed next to each other, select the first song, hold down the "Shift" key and click the last tune in the list. To play one song at a time, simply select the song and hit the "Play" button.