Now that's tricky, didn't think of that. Let us know how it goes.

I've done that kind of path replacing before--kind of a pain but should work if those steps are accurate. Here's a cleaner version of the same steps, for posterity:

http://lifehacker.com/software/itunes/ge...back-242468.php

And for the "most played" playlists, I could even manually play the last few seconds of each song, say, 3-4 times. I could do that to boost the playcounts of just the few dozen most-played songs from the old library, and my friend will have a good starting point. If it's even worth that.

Next challenge: reformatting her iPod for windows. (Probably easy.)

You said it better then me

I do disagree with some theories -via- my electricians . We had many discussions over the years

Well if they said anything different from what I did they are wrong. There's a difference between being able to run 3 wires around a house and sizing a breaker to the wire size, as compared to actually knowing electronics and circuit level theory, such as how a surge protector circuit is made. I've worked with a lot of electricians over the years too from all the high power equipment installations I've been involved in, there's a reason many are only handling 3 wires. I've seen some really stupid mistakes. Ask if they can explain three phase power and why it's more efficient. If you really want to see deer in the headlights look ask about three phase high leg delta.

The only thing easier is phones, that's only 2 wires and they're low voltage and current.

When you move from a mac to a dell, don't you just connect the two via firewire and run the Dell migration assistant? Wouldn't that import the iTunes library?

I doubt the Dell software supports Apple's specific iTunes XML, but it's something to look into. (We don't just want the files, but the playlists and ratings straight into iTunes.)

Hopefully the bottom-end Dell laptop HAS real 6-pin Firewire.

I think PC's use USB to migrate files.

Ya know why there's so much confusion in this thread??!???



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You bought a DELL!!!

LOL. That's got to be it.

To be sure, the apartment I'm in now is the fist one since 2001 to have grounded outlets. And most (well, all) of those years were in south Louisiana, where severe lightning storms are an almost daily occurrence for much of the year. None of my computers ever minded.