Posted by Technobarbarian on 08/10/06 16:35

"Kent Smith" <kent@smithnz.deletethisbit.com> wrote in message
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> "Don M." <newsreader@nospam4fineartsnospam.com> wrote in message
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>> "Kent Smith" <kent@smithnz.deletethisbit.com> wrote in message
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>>> We have one ipod and my wife and I both use it. She doesn't like my
>>> music
>>> and I don't like hers. Hasn't been a problem until ipod started to run
>>> out
>>> of space. I thought - no problem, we'll both set up itunes under
>>> different
>>> local user accounts on the PC, point it to a music repository that we
>>> can
>>> both see and have our own playlists - and auto-updating only our own
>>> playlist to the ipod. This, in theory means, if we want to use the
>>> ipod, we
>>> log into our own user account and connect the ipod. Easy.
>>>
>>> ...well almost. When I choose my playlist 'A' to update in my version
>>> of
>>> itunes, it gets deselected as a playlist to 'automatic update' the next
>>> time
>>> I log in after my wife has synchronised her 'B' playlist. And vice
>>> versa.
>>> It's like, when it synchronises, itunes decides the other playlist
>>> doesn't
>>> exist anymore so will unmark it as an 'automatic update playlist'. But
>>> then
>>> that user logs in, it now does exist and becomes an option again but is
>>> unchecked.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> With Apple products, you're not to "think different" from what they think
>> is good for you.
>> Dump the wife.
>>
> Well here's what I found....
>
> I found the playlist settings (an possibly a bunch of other itunes config)
> are surprisingly stored on the ipod itself - as opposed to the current
> user registry keys where it would make sense. This means you can only
> have one version of settings per ipod. When the other user logs in,
> itunes doesn't know what to do because the playlist required to update
> doesn't exist.
>
> Here's what I did...
[snip]
> Hope someone else can use this info - would be easy to write a little
> utility to sync these files into a user profile and update the files when
> they change, etc, instead of just overwriting them. Essentially enabling
> itunes to support multiple users properly. As it is, I expect if I make
> certain changes in the itunes options, they'll get overwritten unless I
> update the 'master copies' again.

Wow, I think Don was right. It would be easier to just dump the wife.

TB

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