How to Put Music on Your iPod Using Bearshare

Bearshare is a program that can be used to download and listen to audio files on your computer. You can also use Bearshare to put music directly onto your iPod or portable music player. Using Bearshare to add songs to your iPod will save you the time of having to search for your downloaded files using iTunes. By using Bearshare, you can download a new song and place that song directly onto your iPod without having to open another software program.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Download the latest version of Bearshare. See the Resources section below for a link.

2. Install Bearshare onto your computer. When you do, Bearshare will search for audio files that are already on your computer. The program will then add those files to the "My Library" portion of Bearshare.

3. Open Bearshare.

4. Click the "iPod/Mp3 Player" option on the left side of Bearshare. After you do this, plug your iPod into your computer. A box will open on your screen. Click the "OK" tab in that box. The "iPod/Mp3 Player" option will be replaced with the name of your iPod.

5. Click the "My Library" option in the top left corner of Bearshare. Any songs that you added when installing Bearshare or that you have downloaded with Bearshare will appear on the screen. Click on the song and then drag the file over to the name of your iPod found on the left side of the screen. Doing so will add that song to your iPod. Continue doing this until you are finished adding songs to your iPod. Then, disconnect the iPod and close Bearshare.

Tips & Warnings

• You can only add songs which you have obtained a license for onto your iPod when using Bearshare. If you try to add a song that doesn't have a license, you will receive a message stating that the song cannot be added to your iPod. For this reason, you still may want to use iTunes when adding music to an iPod.

Resources

• Bearshare