Listening to iPhone music through computer

[Arkangil]

I had an 5th gen iPod video synced with my PC at home. When I came to work, I plugged it into my PC, and listened to the music on the iPod through the computer with my earphones plugged into the computer, not the iPod.

I then replaced my home PC with a Mac, my first ever, and my iPod still synced, and I could still listen to it at work.

I just got an iPhone (It's true, the iPod is a gateway drug) and so at home it is synced with my Mac. Now, when I come to work and plug it into my PC, all the music, podcasts, etc. are all greyed out, and I cannot listen through the PC at work,

Any suggestions? Can this be done? It's a bit of a pain having to listen through the iPhone, and using it's controls.

Thanks all

 

[Ivan P]

It does the same with me as well - I can listen to the music from my iPhone on the Mac that I sync with, but everything becomes greyed out when I connect it to other computers. My iPods, however, work fine. I think it's something that is either a bug that Apple hasn't fixed or they've disabled the function for some odd reason.

 

[organsoup]

You can use SharePod on a PC to copy the music of a iPhone/iPod then re-import it into iTunes on another computer or whatever...

http://www.getsharepod.com

 

[pcs are junk]

have you tried authorizing the computer? maybe this is the problem.