[iTunes] Multiple iPods

Jeff Carruthers jeff at carruthers.com
Sun Jan 5 16:49:28 PST 2003



Eric Irwin wrote:

> My wife and I each have an iPod.  The way we handle it is to set which
> playlists get synced and which do not for each iPod.  We only have one
> music library.  I guess I am not entirely sure what you want to do, but
> this is a basic way to do it.
>
> The other possibility I can think of, is to have different logins.
> Then you would have different libraries for each login.
>
> I think there might be some Applescripts written to change the iTunes
> library too.
>
> Again, not entirely sure what you want to accomplish.
>
> On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 08:10  AM, iTunesList wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if it would be possible to have more than 1 iPod
> > synch, and
> > each to its own library so that I could have different selections on
> > different iPods.

Like Eric, I find that it is easiest to set up separate playlists for each iPod and
then synch only to them. We use a single, large Library and each person can decide
which songs to listen to at any one time.

An alternative is to have one iPod synching to an OSX library and another to an OS9
library, Problem with this is the extra space required to have two separate
libraries. Another problem is that the OSX version of iTunes will over time be more
feature-laden than the OS( version.

Jeff Carruthers
Perth, ON & Green Valley, AZ



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