If you have room left over on the iPod after transferring your music, you can use it as a portable hard disk, manually copying any computer file to its hard disk to back up files or move them to another Mac.
Despite successful efforts by the record companies to police the copying of tracks by some of their bestselling artists, online file-swapping still goes on.
People do not want to have to keep track of their copying, he said, referring to the current specification that would limit the number of times a file could be copied.