OK - I just got my 30g Ipod yesterday and I spent 3 hours importing music and then deleted the music out of Itunes to save space on my computer. When I started to import more music, low and behold, it erased all my music on my Ipod from last night. If I have a 30g Ipod, will I have to leave 30g of music on my computer slowing it down forever? What do you suggest, I'm clueless. This is ridiculous. I did change the preferences to manually manage music but it said I will have "eject" my Ipod each time I disconnect, what does that mean. Help me please, I'm a total newby! Thank you
I'm just taking a wild shot here. You probably SYNCRONIZED, & I believe what that does is "match up" what is different between your Itunes files list & your Ipod list. So when you delete from your Itunes list & then syncronize it will delete what's on your Ipod. So I would say switching your preferences to manually load music is the correct thing to do. The ejecting part, I have no idea what that could mean. I don't have an Ipod. Sorry!! Maybe it means you'll have to click on the little icon (down by the clock) to safely remove it? Do you have to worry about space on your HD? If not I would just leave them on your computer. If so, I would make some back-up CD's or DVD's .
Yea that's frustrating. I think what you need to do is select to manually update songs. Then you can put whatever songs you want in your library, then drag and drop them to your ipod in the source view on the left side of the screen. Hold CTRL to select multiple songs that are not next to each other, and Shift to select the first, and last in a group to highlight the entire group. Then drag and drop to ipod. Then you can delete them from your library. When you have finished, click the small eject icon to the right of your ipod in the source view.
I actually did the exact same thing MANY times when I first got my Ipod, I eventually got pissed off and took the Ipod back then wanted it back again and bought another one lol. But what you have to do is go to prefernces and switch to manually update songs. Go to http://www.ilounge.com/ to find out other helpful things about your ipod...
I reckon Digidave said the correct thing. Turn off syncronisation then that way you won't encounter the problem again.
You got it all wrong! 1. iTunes works only with iPod. It should NOT be used to store all of your CD and mp3 collection. 2. iTunes asks you (when using another computer) should he syncronise the new database with the existing on the iPod. I have 40 HDD split in c:\ and d:\ and the mistake I made was to put all of my collection on c: when it was already filled up! So there was only 100 MB left on my HDD when I uploaded all of my songs to iPod. The thing is that you can't work with c: having only 100 MB of free space. I copied using Ethernet all of my collection (iTunes library) to my notebook. By this i mean ALL files. Even the some .exe files from C:\windows\patch. Once these files has been transfered (it took almost 50 minutes) I started iTunes on notebook and iPod recognised that the database is the same. This is the only way to back up you iTunes library. Then I formatted my c:\ partition and re-installed all of my programs altogether with iTunes. Now I have 4.6 GB of free space on HDD with iTunes working as I never formatted the C drive. When iPod asks you if it should be syncronised with new database, you say NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! and the upload is set to manual!!! Second, you can't make back-up copies to CD as there is not nearly enough space as you must create a image of iTunes library. If you export song list or library all of you item will be sorted how iTunes see fit which is not very good thing.
No Offence, but that's bull. ?? What do you store on it then? Turkeys?? [bold]USE SHAREPOD!![/bold] -have a read through the site (SharePod has won the 'Playlist' magazine award for Best Windows iPod Software of 2005). http://www.sturm.net.nz/website.php?Section=iPod+Programs&Page=SharePod I use this to transfer music around many computers. You should have posted this in the iPod forum buddy.
First of all iTunes is designed to work with iPod. I know that you can also listen, but EVERYTHING that you done with your iTunes (like removing songs) will reflect to your iPod. That's what happened to joey!! Yes, you can set to "manually", but automatic is cool. Importing CDs takes a lot of HDD space. That's why I don't use it as a CD and mp3 collection tool!!! What happens when you have 1110 mp3s and 400 CDs? Taking almost 14GB of your HDD. Oh and no offense. I tried SharePod. A crap. It rearranged my entire collection the way he liked it... If I used SharePod I would still be correcting all the mistakes he made... and when you have 3800 songs...
Thanks for that little Gem of info... Automatic is 'cool' when it isn't deleting your songs because you aren't sure how to manage the feature. Well, everyones got their two cents, but [/quote] Awards of course, speak for themselves.
Many people, things and software won many awards and sold huge amounts of CDs and DVDs, but that didn't stop people s**ting on them. Just look at Titanic and Celine Dion.
People 'S**t' on them because not everyone has the same opinion, like me and you. So my work here is done.
@ dalibor18 Everyone is using iTunes to store their entire music collection. Your talking absolute crap.
Entire? If you have 100 CDs, but if you have 400 or 500 or 600, you don't. At least not all of them. I use iTunes to import songs to my iPod and sometimes I listen to music. I use RealOne Player to play my mp3s as a default player. Actually, iTunes binds part of my CD and mp3 collection. But not all... and not ENTIRE CD collection.
'cause this thread is nothing about you. This is about helping someone out with their iPod. OK, you don't like to have all your songs on your computer. Now get over it. unsubscribed.
