Put Songs on an iPod With Limewire

There are several ways to put songs on your iPod. Limewire is a music download service that makes it easy. However, if you are going to download copyrighted music (virtually everything), it is against the law in most countries.

Steps

1. Download Limewire.
2. Exit out of other programs. Open Limewire.
3. Go to Limewire>Preferences>iTunes>Importing. Check the box next to "Enable iTunes importing". Now Limewire will automatically add songs to iTunes in a playlist named "Limewire".
   • Another way is to manually drag and drop songs from your Limewire library to your iTunes library.
4. Select "Audio" and enter information regarding song(s) into the information fields.
5. Highlight a song by clicking on it and press the green arrow to download. Wait for the songs to download.
6. Open iTunes. Your new songs will be added momentarily.
7. Connect your iPod to your computer with the USB cord.
8. Add the songs to your iPod.
9. Eject your iPod and disconnect.
10. Listen to your new songs!

Tips

• Make sure that your computer has an internet connection when you are downloading a song.
• Sometimes Limewire can run quite slowly and affect other programs also. To help with this go to Limewire>Preferences>Saving>Downloads and limit the maximum downloads. Also, when searching and no new songs have appeared for a while click "Stop Search".
• Songs with a greater number of hits will take less time to download.

Warnings

• Limewire the program is not illegal, it is only illegal if you download copyrighted materials. There are Choose a P2P Client too.
• Avoid downloading viruses from Limewire. Stick to audio files only and avoid low file sizes.

Things You'll Need

• Apple iPod
• iPod USB cable
• Limewire
• Internet

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