iPod Pre-loaded iPods

[Howard Brazee]

I heard our local Public Radio station offering a loaded iPod with one of its more expensive membership. It is a nano with all of the music that they offer to lesser memberships.

I wonder how they do this - if it is just a copy of the CDs, iTunes won't be able to unload it onto a computer - and nanos need to be unloaded.

I'd like to see someone sell a hard drive with various music (and video) collections loaded and ready to run - but they need some way of marking the songs as being legally purchased.

What I'd really like is to have my iTunes on a portable drive that my home and work iTunes use as native.

 

[Fuchal]

I heard our local Public Radio station offering a loaded iPod with one of its more expensive membership. It is a nano with all of the music that they offer to lesser memberships.

I wonder how they do this - if it is just a copy of the CDs, iTunes won't be able to unload it onto a computer - and nanos need to be unloaded.

I'd like to see someone sell a hard drive with various music (and video) collections loaded and ready to run - but they need some way of marking the songs as being legally purchased.

What I'd really like is to have my iTunes on a portable drive that my home and work iTunes use as native.

I believe Apple sells "corporate gift" iPods that can have pre-loaded content. I would assume iTunes is set up to transfer these files back or downloaded these files from iTunes Store when the iPod is set up.