How to Transfer Songs From Windows Explorer to an Ipod

Use Windows Explorer to add more songs to your iTunes library.

If you don't feel comfortable importing songs into iTunes from within iTunes, you can drag and drop the files into iTunes using Windows Explorer. After adding the songs to the iTunes library, you can sync the songs to your iPod just as you would songs you'd imported to the iTunes library from within iTunes. The amount of time it takes to import songs into iTunes using Windows Explorer and then load the songs to your iPod depends on how many songs you are moving.

Instructions

1. Connect your iPod to your computer using the USB cable that came with the device.

2. Open iTunes if the program does not open automatically.

3. Click the "Start" icon on the Windows task bar to open the Start menu. Type "explorer" in the Search field in the lower-left corner of the Start menu. Click "Windows Explorer" beneath Programs in the list of search results that appears on the left side of the Start menu. Windows Explorer opens on the screen.

4. Click the expansion arrow to the left of either Favorites, Libraries, or Computer on the left side of the Windows Explorer program window and then click the appropriate subfolder to navigate to where the songs you want to transfer to the iPod are located.

5. Hold down the "Ctrl" key and then click each song you want to transfer to your iPod. Click the "Restore Down" button in the upper-right corner of the Windows Explorer window if the window is not already a smaller-screen window. Click the "Restore Down" button in the upper-right corner of the iTunes window

6. Right-click an open area on the Windows task bar and then click "Show Windows side by side." The two windows will be displayed near each other.

7. Click one of the highlighted files in Windows Explorer and then drag the files above Library on the left side of the iTunes program window until the entire Library section is highlighted. The files will be added to the iTunes library.

8. Click the "X" in the upper-right corner of the Windows Explorer window to close Windows Explorer. Click the "Maximize" button in the upper-right corner of the iTunes program window to maximize the program window.

9. Click "Music" beneath Library in the left side of the iTunes program window.

10. Hold down the "Ctrl" key and click to select the files you added to iTunes on the right side of the program window.

11. Click one of the highlighted files and then drag the file above the name of your iPod on the left side of the program window beneath Devices until the entire Devices section becomes highlighted.

12. Release the mouse button. All of the files you highlighted will be copied onto your device. When the message "iPod sync is complete. OK to disconnect" is displayed in the tan box at the top of the screen, the sync is complete and you can disconnect your iPod from the computer.