ok. i have a mac. if i get a used ipod with songs preloaded

[faithnotgreed]

then can i burn these songs onto a cd?

what would i need to do this? clearly i have to have a way to upload them to the computer
so

- usb cable
- cd burner (i have an iomega external)

can you tell i have no idea what im doing?

[rawtribe]

1. you need a program

like ipod viewer that will let you take the songs off the ipod.

http://homepage.mac.com/initgraf/iPodViewer/frameset.html

[faithnotgreed]

4. thank you. have you used this program? i just went to the link

and they sure make it sound straightforward enough

[MR. ELECTABLE]

2. Don't try to sync with your iTunes library...

It will erase all of the music on your iPod and replace it with a copy of your the iTunes library stored on your Mac. What you need is a little program called Senuti (you can get it off of macupdate or versiontracker). It will allow you to copy songs off of the iPod and save them on your Mac's hard drive. After you've copied over the songs you want you can double click them or drag them into iTunes to add them to your library. Then you can sync your new iPod, burn CDs or whatever you like.

[faithnotgreed]

5. thank you so much. ill check it out.

[politicat]

3. you "can't" move songs from an iPod to a computer with the standard

software.

Because that would be... um... piracy.

You would need something like iPodRip (which we used when we forgot to make backups of my music... but for my iPod) to do what you want to do.

Pcat

[emulatorloo]

6. You outta check out this site for iPod users

You will find something that will work at www.ipodlounge.com as well as some other cool stuff for ipod.

I should say that doing what you are proposing would violate copyright. . . .