Ipod

molly09

Hi

i hope I am posting this in teh correct place.

i have music on my Opod Nano for the past few years that i put on from a PC which is no longer in use.

I have now put some cds onto Itunes on my laptop. i plugged in the Iposd to copy teh music over to it, when it said that I meed to sync the ipod with the laptop and if I did this I would clear all the music that is already on th eIpod.

I am wondering is there any way I can put the new music on without loosing the music that is already on it.

I am pretty useless with this sort of stuff..................actually was kinda pround of myself I got the music onto Itunes in teh first place

any help well appericated

thanks
M

5uspect

Go into itunes's settings and disable automatic syncing and you should be fine.

molly09

Hi

Thanks a million for that

just how do I get into teh Itunes settings, it does not seem to be in any of the drop down menus at the top.

thanks again

M

5uspect

It's probably under Preferences knowing Apple's naming convention. I'm not at my PC at the moment to check.

molly09

Hi

Sorry for asking again, when I go in to Itunes and preferences I dint see sync,

any help really appericated again,

Thanks a mil

M

5uspect

Which version of itunes are you using?
You'll find the version number under Help>About itunes.

I'm running 9 on my PC and 10 on my Mac.
On the PC its under Edit>Preferences...>Devices.
"Prevent ipods and iphones from syncing automatically."

I'll go check the mac too.

EDIT: Yep here it is:

molly09

thansk a million, I got it now thats so much,

If I just tick all the music that I want to transfer over to ipod and press sync will the music move over and my old music be ok?

sorry I am really not very gud with this

my ipod is one of teh first ipod nano and I have windows vista

not sure which version of Itunes I have downloaded, but i downloaded about 2 years ago


thanks again

5uspect

You don't click sync or tick anything.
Just connect your ipod. Browse the itunes library and drag and drop any tracks you want onto your ipod icon on the left side of the screen.

Hold shift or ctrl to select multiple items.

molly09

Hi


U must think I ma the biggest dope ever,

I tried dragging some of teh music to teh ipod on teh left but it does not seem to be transferring into teh ipod,

I checked th eipod also and its not tehre

any ideas?

thanks again

5uspect

When you hold the files over the ipod icon it should highlight blue. Release the mouse and it'll start to copy. You'll see a loading bar in the faux LCD at the top of the screen.

Here is a rather annoying video (sorry I couldn't find a better one) with a walkthrough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0oxo1soApw

molly09

thanks so much for that, it was very good, I think my problem is that that Ipod icon is not blue, also the ipod is not registered, ijust ignore that step...................

thanks for helping me

M

molly09

OMG i think its actuallly working,,

thank you so so much

I really appericiate it


M

5uspect

Well it should visibly change somehow when you drag the files over it. It may not actually turn blue, that's just the typical highlighting colour in Windows.

Did you check the manually manage ipod option he shows in the video?

Glad to hear it.

molly09

:-)

imagine at one mad stage in my life I was actually seriously thinking of studing software development in uni....................

5uspect

Heh, well itunes is a horrible mess. Maybe you would have helped tame it.