Fricken Ipod and Itunes question......

[Scott]

We broke down and bought an ipod last summer.
Put some tunes on it through i-tunes with our desktop computer.

Before we bought the ipod, we found that the desktop computer had slowly started taking a crap so we bought an external hard drive. Enter the ipod.

I know that I exported the library to the external hard drive.

Wife decides we need a laptop.

Cool.

We go on a trip....and decide we need more tunes on the ipod.

In hotel right now and last night we downloaded itunes on the laptop and hooked up ipod to it...blah blah blah.

When I go to sync, it tells me that I cannot add the new library" of tunes to the current existing "library" that is already on the ipod. It will erase the ipod's old tunes and overwrite the new ones.

I have the external hard harddrive with me...I exported the library to the external hard drive folder but it adds it as a second library and does not merge it with the old library.

WTF? How can I manage an ipod from two computers and keep both libraries together from both computers on one ipod?

Anyone else had this problem before?
I've gone to "file" and "consolidate", but don't know what it does.

 

[Ex-Member]

File-Consolidate plucks all the items in your library and copies them into the Library folder. Useful if you have media in bittorrent downloads, limewire downloads, my documents, etc to get it all into one place. Pain in the asss because you'll end up with a lot of copies of your music if you're not careful.

Unfortunately there really isn't a way to have multiple computers driving a single ipod. The library that iPod is tied to lives on the HD of the computer it's sync'd to regardless of where the music actually is.

Now... If you keep a library on either computer with roughly the same songs/playlists, overwriting shouldn't do anything but take a little more time.

 

[Abominab1e]

Put ephpod or sharepod on the lappy, I think that will work for your situation.

 

[T-Bone]

Number one reason why I won't get an Ipod is Itunes. About as user friendly as a cactus.

 

[ak ryda]

Have you tried copying the files to your itunes library rather than trying to merge the library off the external HD?

I too have issues with I-tunes. I have to run my nano off my desktop and my i-phone off my laptop. Very frustrating but have to admit with how easy my i-phone is to use i am looking at i-mac's now to be a full apple convert. Trying to resist being assimilated but its just not working.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

 

[Supplicate]

Number one reason why I won't get an Ipod is Itunes. About as user friendly as a cactus.

Anymore thats very true. I miss the old iTunes, like v2.0. It was simple, user friendly, and did music very very well. I don't need a music player to play videos and everything else. I have quicktime for movies, firefox for internet; don't try to force me to go through iTunes.


Still shopping for an alternative, unfortunately Apple has cornered the market on connectivity when it comes to car/home/work.

 

[Sturgis Sledder]

Anymore thats very true. I miss the old iTunes, like v2.0. It was simple, user friendly, and did music very very well. I don't need a music player to play videos and everything else. I have quicktime for movies, firefox for internet; don't try to force me to go through iTunes.


Still shopping for an alternative, unfortunately Apple has cornered the market on connectivity when it comes to car/home/work.

I REALLY REALLY like my zune

 

[Ex-Member]

heh, if you turn "zune" upside down, it kinda looks like "anus".

 

[POLZIN]

heh, if you turn "zune" upside down, it kinda looks like "anus".

HAHA Mule! your strange! but I like It

 

[hilinerider]

Trying to resist being assimilated but its just not working.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone[/QUOTE]



the borg will always win inthe end

 

[wickman]

Found out something with my sons ipod, don't run it through the washing machine. They don't like that.

 

[MARCUSO]

It's best to keep your ipod dedicated to one computer only. Can you copy the music from the external, to your new laptop? Then erase the file on the backup and recopy it as one new complete file.

I think Itunes is great, and the ipod is also. Never had a problem yet.

 

[$nowMeansBroke]

I REALLY REALLY like my zune

yup, 16gb Zune here. My gf has all kinds of issues with getting music on and off of her ipod...I just plug mine in to either my desktop or laptop and drag and drop away...

 

[triple]

Did the path to the music change on the hard drive??

 

[MARCUSO]

yup, 16gb Zune here. My gf has all kinds of issues with getting music on and off of her ipod...I just plug mine in to either my desktop or laptop and drag and drop away...

One thing about ipods is that you can only load onto them, unloading is not an option I don't think... is it?

 

[JDKZRT]

One thing about ipods is that you can only load onto them, unloading is not an option I don't think... is it?

I think you can unload. Set up Itunes so it only sync's specific playlists (not your entire library) when the Ipod is connected.... then edit these playlists with exactly what you want..... then sync.
If you remove a song from the playlist, it will be removed from the Ipod.

 

[deaner]

I cant believe how bad Itunes is. I bought an Ipod last year and like it. Hate Itunes with a passion though. Its amazing that a company as advanced as apple is using a program like Itunes. Really wish I would have bought an mp3 player compatible with Windows Media Player. It is SO intuitive and easy to use.

 

[Mafesto]

I cant believe how bad Itunes is. I bought an Ipod last year and like it. Hate Itunes with a passion though. Its amazing that a company as advanced as apple is using a program like Itunes. Really wish I would have bought an mp3 player compatible with Windows Media Player. It is SO intuitive and easy to use.

I was waiting for someone to mention Media Player.
I an rtard when it comes to this stuff, but I can work Media Player just fine with my (under $50 refubished) 8 gig Sansa's! Load, erase whatever.

 

[xrated]

huh I like itunes better then media.

 

[Jeff C]

Found out something with my sons ipod, don't run it through the washing machine. They don't like that.

I dropped my brothers ipod off the dock last summer.

I took a utility blade and was able to seperate the halves of the unit. Took it apart as far as I could, placed it in front of a fan overnight, snapped it back together, recharged it and it runs just fine.

Could not believe it.

Did the same thing with my sons nano that went through the washing machine + dryer. Worked for a day, then crapped out......