Enjoying Your Downloaded Music More in San Diego
Or anywhere. There are a few things that you ought to know about music on their computer that seem to confuse or be unknown by a majority of people out there. These include how to get music off of an iPod and onto your computer, and how to actually make BitTorrent programs work. Below are my recomendations for both of these dilemmas
Getting music off of an iPod and onto a computer is a problem that many are convinced is unsolvable. It is indeed impossible to do using iTunes, but there are, of course, a myriad of solutions, many of which are free. Getting your music off of an iPod and onto a computer is a fast way to share music with friends and in many cases, the only backups of their music people have in case of a hard drive failure. I have found PodUtil to be a straightforward and intuitive way to transfer music from iPod to hard drie, and even straight to iTunes if you desire. The interface is not as nice and refined as iTunes, but anyone familiar with iTunes should be able to figure out how to work PodUtil
The other problem people seem to encounter frequently is getting BitTorrent clients, such as Azureus to work. I recomend visiting this site which has five tips for speeding up your torrent downloads. In particular, tip two, which involves instalilng a windows patch, helps immensely. Although it gives you a scary warning, it is perfectly safe and can greatly improve the number of connections you're able to make to a torrent, and thus your overall download speeds. Secondly, once all of these tips have been performed, it is important to have Port Forwarding on your router configured correctly. This used to be a problem that would confound even a knowledgable user, but website www.portforward.com has made it almost insultingly easy to do. You pick your router type, the program you are trying to configure (Not just BitTorrent clients, but games, communications software, etc) and it walks you through the process, literally gathering information about your system for you and directing you exactly what and where to type things in.
