Posted by Kent Smith on 08/10/06 22:47

"Technobarbarian" <Technobarbarian-ztopzpam@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "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.
>
Then I'd have to find a way to automate the whole kitchen. :)


-KENT

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