Posted by Broadway Blue on 09/11/07 21:20

NRen2k5 wrote:
> Broadway Blue wrote:
>> NRen2k5 wrote:
>>> Broadway Blue wrote:
>>>> DiscDawg@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> So short of not using iTunes at all, I am pretty much SOL?
>>>>> Nothing like having you hands tied by software.....
>>>>
>>>> That's the way Apple designed it! You need to use iTunes to use
>>>> an iPod properly. Some people like it, some people don't. That's
>>>> the choices you make when you purchase an MP3 player.
>>>> Personally, keeping your MP3's in the iTunes library for syncing
>>>> with an iPod is hardly the end of the World, even if you use
>>>> Winamp to play them.
>>>
>>> That's not true. The problem here is synching behaviour, not iTunes
>>> itself.
>>
>> What part isn't true?iTunes itself cannot add tracks to an iPod
>> without syncing. Yes you can set iTunes not to sync, but the original
>> poster wouldn't be able to add any additional tracks to his music
>> that way.
>
> Enable “Only sync checked items” and “Manually manage music and
> videos.” On “music” menu under the iPod, uncheck the items you don’t
> want to be deleted on sync.

You obviously didn't understand what the original poster wanted to do! He
had an iPod with music on it, but the tracks were not from his PC, or in
his iTunes library. So when he plugs his iPod in, with nothing in his
iTunes library, the iPod gets wiped. But he also wants to download odd
tracks from the iTunes store and add them to the tracks on his iPod. So
syncing will delete the tracks on the iPod, whilst adding any purchases or
new MP3's on his PC. But not syncing will not allow any purchases or new
tracks to be added to the iPod. But he doesn't have an iTunes library of
songs to uncheck! Hence my recommendation to copy MP3's from his
work computer to his own computers iTunes library. - Or use Sharepod.

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