Neither an iPod nor iTunes makes it easy for you to copy music from one place to another. You cannot simply plug your iPod into a friend’s computer and tell iTunes to transfer some of her music to your iPod, for example. This same difficultly comes into play when you transfer music from your iPod to an external hard drive. Doing so is possible, but the resulting file names will be jumbled and nonsensical. Unscramble this information in iTunes later for an organized music library. Writer Bio
