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[dakegra]

question for the LJ hiveMind

K's shiny new iPod nano turned up today ready for her birthday. She's getting a bunch of iTunes vouchers too from various people.

Lucky girl.


My question is this - she doesn't have an iTunes account yet - should we (could we) set up her iPod to *my* account, thereby allowing her to watch the video content I've bought and listen to my audiobooks I got from Audible?

I'm going to get one myself at some point, so would need access to all my stuff anyway - can you have two ipods on one iTunes account?

Advice onna postcard please.

Comments

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

Yes you can! Elaby and I share one account and it seems to work quite well.

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

It works great, we both just use the same login and password and we still can maintain separate iTunes libraries and playlists. If one of us buys a song that the other wants you just have to copy it to a flashdrive or some such device and put it on the other's computer.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

ah, we only have the one computer, which is what made me think of just having the one account. :-)

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

Even better, you won't have to transfer files. Should work great!

[dave-t-lurker.livejournal.com]

Yep, you can authorise a couple of players and up to 5 computers on one account I think.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I knew you could do five computers, wasn't sure about the players. Ta!

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's any limit to the number of iPods you're allowed on one account. I know you're limited to 4 PCs, but I don't think this applies to iPods.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Don't know about two ipods on one account... Offhand, it should work, but merging your collections under the same account seems like a good idea :D

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

all of mine and K's music is in one big \mp3 directory anyway. :-)

[shadowdaddy.livejournal.com]

Requisite smartass reply:

You buy content? Wow.

replying to myself

[shadowdaddy.livejournal.com]

That said, I really have no problem with the *idea* of paying for digital media, as long as there aren't DRM limitations, and that I think the artist is actually getting a reasonable cut. Don't mean to politicize your otherwise completely innocuous post/question =)

Re: replying to myself

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I've only bought a couple of things from iTunes - the DRM annoys me. Emusic/amazon are DRM free so I can listen to the music I've paid for however I damn well please, which is how it should be.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I've bought *some* content from iTunes. I know K will buy more than me though.

I tend to buy my music either through amazon's new mp3 store or my emusic account.

[shadowdaddy.livejournal.com]

Of course, with vouchers, whatcha gonna do? =)

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

indeed. And I've had an audible.com subscription for ages which is tied to my apple account on iTunes, so if I use it again, she wouldn't be able to listen to any of the audiobooks I've downloaded.

DRM is stupid.