Sorry, this has probably been answered a million times over on iPodLounge.com but I couldn't be bothered to trawl it. I'll mainly be using my PC at home with iTunes and syncing my iPod but when I take my laptop with me for my monthly trip to London I wouldn't mind recording the CDs I buy there and slapping them on the iPod before I get back home. Trouble is, iPod and iTunes work with that music "database" so it doesn't really work. I know you can turn off the automatic syncing and upload songs manually but that's a real drag (see how Apple software is already changing my thinking :D ) so the compromise I'm going to use is: Use auto sync-ing with my PC at home and manual syncing with my laptop. However, when I've uploaded songs to the iPod manually (via the laptop) when I then get back home they won't be in the local "library" and will get erased when the iPod next syncs up at home - or won't they? Is it possible to grab songs from the iPod to the PC (without having to laboriously find whether on the iPod filesystem they are stored)? How do other people who use two machines handle this problem? Thanks, Mike.