How to Put Music On An iPod Touch

If you're running on "PC Logic," you'll have to throw it away at the moment. As you know, this is an Apple product, and things don't work the way your Windows-run PC does.

For starters, connect your iPod Touch to your computer via the USB cable. The iPod will appear on the left-hand sidebar. Highlight it, and you should see a screen similar to the one above.

Next, you'll notice this listing of tabs at the top of the screen where your iPod is highlighted. In this tutorial, we're focused on uploading music. However, for any other mediums, simply click that particular tab to edit its settings, and see what's currently on your iPod.

So, click "Music" here.

This is where it gets annoying if you're an iPod newbie. It can be downright frustrating to figure out how the hell you're supposed to get music to your iPod. The reality of it is that you can either have it upload via "sync," which involves putting music on a specified folder on your hard drive and automatically having your iPod Touch notice and auto-upload them, or you can drag and drop them. I prefer dragging and dropping, because I like the sense of knowing exactly what is going on, and having manual control over it.

See the folder called "Video Game Music" on the left hand sidebar? I created that folder myself. So, if I want to add MP3s to that folder, I simply highlight the MP3s on my hard drive and drag/drop them directly into that folder. It's that simple.

Note that wherever you've dragged/dropped those MP3s from is where iTunes will "remember" their location on your PC. So, it will check back to re-synch those files if you've set your iPod to synch every time you start up iTunes. This might result in annoying pop-up errors if you've moved those files since last usage.

Now that you've defined what you want to go on to your iPod, it's time to get it on there. Simply click that "Sync" button on the lower right of your screen. Make sure your iPod Touch is still selected on the left sidebar in order to see the Sync button. Once clicked, iTunes will upload all of the stuff from your folder(s) on to your iPod Touch.

That's it...you're done!