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Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, April 27, 2007 - 9:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Ahh ok thx! I need to get one of those then.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Itunes question. Is it possible to set up my itunes for more than one user? the boys have been downloading stuff and it gets on my itunes so when I sync my ipod up it adds all these songs that I don't want like all of the Lil Wayne bullshat lol. But when I delete from the library (and I deleted most of my songs for when #2 wanted to sync his ipod and the next day when I went to sync mine it deleted everything I had on my ipod).

So is Itunes for 1 person only?? When I deleted from the library it also removed the songs from my playlists.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 10:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Mocha, you need to set your itunes preferences to not sync automatically and only transfer manually.

That way you can organize your music and just copy to your ipod or to your son's ipod only the music you want, and same for yours.

I'll try to find where you do that, if you can't poke around and find it yourself. But that's what my son and I do to share.

I assume you are on a PC? Not a Mac?

Bonzacat
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07-08-2003

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 10:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonzacat a private message Print Post    
Mocha - when you delete from the Library you are removing the original song file, which in turn has to clear the song from your Playlists. Playlists are basically copies or pointers to the original file.

If you delete a song from a Playlist, it does not remove the song file from your Library.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Ohh ok thx Kar and Bonza. Kar I think a page to change that setting comes up when I initially plug my ipod up. Kool this will help alot.

Snuffles
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07-17-2005

Saturday, June 23, 2007 - 2:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Snuffles a private message Print Post    
Mocha, have you considered creating individual accounts/profiles on the computer? if you do that, then each of you can have your own individual install of iTunes and your own songs and you don't have to concern yourself with avoiding their songs and vice versa.

Yankee_in_ca... there is some kind of function in iTunes that fixes the volume on all the songs, I think it might be in preferences... can't remember off-hand, but i know it exists.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Saturday, June 23, 2007 - 10:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Itunes Plus --

Last night I was downloading a couple of tunes for exercising to, and at one point an "Itunes Plus" message came up...I skimmed through it, it mentioned enhance audio, blah, blah, blah, and I said "ok." (Dumb in hindsight -- ALWAYS read the boxes!).

All of a sudden, a bunch of "plus" songs appear, but they cost 1.29 not .99! Sorry, I don't care enough about "enhance quality" to pay the extra 30 cents. However, now that it's activated, I have found NO way to deactivate it. I vaguely remember something in the box about "preference," but after searching through every preference setting in Itunes AND in "My account" on itunes.com, I've got zilch.

I checked the itunes "help" page, and the blasted info just explains how to get it and how wonderful it is. NOWHERE does it say how to get rid of it. Anyone tried this and know what I can do to go back to "old" cheaper songs?

(NOTE: Not all songs are available in this format, so I am able to find songs for the normal price; however, there were a couple I wanted and they only price now offered is the 1.29).

Thanks for any help you can give. :-)

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Snuffles, I never thought of tha lol. We do have seperate accounts and for some reason the Bearshare we use only works on mine and not theirs but I need to find a way for it to work on their so they can have their own Itunes account. Thx!!!

Tera
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08-10-2000

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tera a private message Print Post    
Teach- Same exact thing happened to me last night. Pretty sneaky of them, huh?

If you go into your Apple Account Information (at the iTunes store) the very first box has a Manage iTunes Plus button. Click that and you will find your box to un-check.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 2:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Can anyone recommend a good iPod backup software?

My son has moved some CDs directly from CD to his iPod without copying them first to iTunes. His dad's car was broken into, and now the original CDs are gone. He wants to upgrade his iPod, but there is no way to copy the songs from the iPod to iTunes without some additional software apparently.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 10:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Tera. :-) I e-mailed Itunes last night and they had responded by the time I was home tonight at 10:00! I was accessing my account on the web site, but going in through the Itunes store in Itunes made it easy. (Felt kinda' silly, but I swear I'd looked everywhere!)

Thanks again...it's gone now!

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Monday, June 25, 2007 - 4:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Kar - it's not necessary to have backup software. Just attach the iPod to the computer, then in iTunes, "enable hard disk use" on that specific iPod. Then click My Computer, and the iPod should show up as another drive letter. You need to "show hidden files" for this drive. Once you start exploring this drive with the hidden files showing, there should be a Music folder, and then hundreds of folders labeled something like "f1, f2...f546, f547". In each of those folders is a few songs, labeled randomly. Those are all the music files, they're just labeled random names which is not very problematic. Download a program called Media Monkey, and it has the power to rename the files based on the TAG names. It's pretty good.

But never fear that you are losing stuff on an iPod if it's not matching the iTunes. Once it's stored on the iPod, it's easy to retrieve.

Hopefully that was an OK explanation.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Sunday, July 01, 2007 - 10:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Having a little trouble syncing. I have an 8 gig nano. I want to sync all my music plus just certain playlists to the nano. But it seems only playlist music syncs, not everything else. Although . . . I have some podcasts in iTunes, but don't want them synced to nano. I think I synced correctly, yet podcasts went to nano. Maybe they're taking up too much space for my music to sync? Suggestions?

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, July 02, 2007 - 7:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Anyone? Eeyores? HELP?

I tried deleting all the podcasts from iTunes and then syncing. But music not on a playlist still does not sync / download to nano. What's going on? What am I doing or not doing?

HELP!

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Monday, July 02, 2007 - 10:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
#1 - Go into the Podcasts area, and click on one of the podcasts, then click Ctrl-A (selects all), then right click and choose to deselect or unselect all files (I forget the actual wording). This is why I think the podcasts are going on to your nano. As long as the checkboxes beside each podcasts are unchecked, they shouldn't go onto the nano.

#2 - I'm not completely sure about the nano because I don't have one, but I'm sure it has the same set up in iTunes as the iPod. I think to only put on CERTAIN playlists, you'd have to manage the song files "manually" which is a setting that should be available when you click on the Nano in iTunes; a window comes up that says "Donna's Nano" or whatever you've named it, and then it has a few tabs with the settings. I can't remember them by heart, and I'm not with my iPod/cable, so I can't plug it in to confirm right now.

Anyways, once you've changed it to "manual sync", you then have to drag and drop the playlists, and files you want ON the nano, and also delete things from the nano manually. So, if you currently have a lot of unwanted crap on your nano, I would delete everything from the nano. Then I'd drag the few playlists you want onto the nano. iTunes will then add any music files associated with those playlists. Once that's done, you can then just drag any music files onto the nano; if you want ALL of your files, then "select all" of the files and drag them onto the nano. Easy peasey.


Let me know if this solves the problems. :-)

PS - if you are already set to manual sync, and you're just dragging the playlists over and not doing the all music step, this could be why it's not syncing. Normally, if there isn't enough room on the nano, a box comes up telling you there isn't enough room, and then it doesn't put anything on; you have to add in smaller chunks until it's all full.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, July 02, 2007 - 11:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Eeyores, I'm just back from the Apple Store (not too far). My nano is syncing now. (All my music is going back on. It's taking a while.) I'm feelin' older and older. It is so simple, but I . . . . Basically I didn't know or had forgotten about the "apply" button when syncing or not syncing music (sync) and podcasts (not sync). And then I was confused about the two different buttons / choices for syncing either all music and playlists OR just certain playlists (which will not sync all the other music). Got it now. Thanks.

I also have a 4 gig nano. Is that enough to hold most any audiobook? Do audiobooks go into the music section of iTunes library? Or where? Can I just sync the audiobook to my 4 gig nano?

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, July 02, 2007 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Sometimes I HATE technology. Nano is finished syncing. NO SOUND. A song will show. It's says "now playing". Play time doesn't change. Though it may sometimes go to next song and next song. Sound is turned on? I hit buttons. NO SOUND. Now what's going on?

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, July 02, 2007 - 12:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
It's OK now. I didn't do anything but turn it off for a while. Sometimes I HATE technology.

Is it me? Am I getting old? Nooooo. I get so frustrated when technology doesn't work. No patience for it.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Monday, July 02, 2007 - 2:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
LOL Colord.

A nano will for sure hold a audiobook. It will hold hundreds of them. If you order and pay for audiobooks from iTunes, then they will have their own little menu line called "Audiobooks" on the actuall nano. However, I download most of my audiobooks freely and illegally, and those are just in MP3 format, so I change their "genre" to "audiobook" and then I find those files through the browse genres option.

Let me know if you need anymore help. :-)

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, July 02, 2007 - 3:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
I've bought three audiobooks so far (CDs, not iTunes and will be gifted another). Figure it would be nice to download them to iTunes and then sync to a nano.

OK, so download CDs to iTunes and it will go into music. Then change genre to audiobook? Just what you said.

Sorry to be a pain. As I told a friend earlier, often enough I can now hear / feel my mother in me. When I was younger, I'd get frustrated with her. Now I'm on the "other side". Oh, geeeeez!

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Monday, July 02, 2007 - 4:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Nah -- just rip the CDs into Itunes, Color. I usually create a "smart playlist" w/the name of the book -- then you can just put the playlist onto the ipod the "normal" way.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, July 02, 2007 - 6:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Right, Teach. Thanks. You're not a teach for nothin'.

Ktbb
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08-10-2003

Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 4:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ktbb a private message Print Post    
Quick question for all you smart folks. My hard drive had to be replaced on my new lap top. There went all my EVERYTHING. When I redownload itunes and plug in my ipod will my music go from my ipod back to itunes?? Thanks

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Thursday, July 05, 2007 - 1:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
No it will not Ktbb. You need to do the "hard drive" thing I explained upthread.

*****Most importantly, DO NOT allow iTunes to sync with the ipod that has all you music on it.*****

You must first get your music OFF of the ipod before you let the syncing take place.

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 3:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
i just bought a 500GB external hard drive. how do i go about moving all of the songs/movies/tvshows/podcasts from iTunes to it? can i just use "move to folder" in the "my computer"? will iTunes still find them?