[iTunes] Re: OS 9 & X iPod Installation Instructions

[Kunga]

OK. I did it again a different way and YES you can have both access to 
songs to play from the Pod and access to them in the iPod's boot disk's 
own iTunes. You have to turn off the Copy to Music folder option. Then 
after you add each album to the iPod manually, you go into the iPod 
Control Folder (you have TinkerTool 2.32 show hidden and system files 
turned on of course) and simply go through the folders to find your 
added tracks and drag them to the iPod's itunes' Library. Then you can 
isolate them and make a new Playlist that you can add to the iPod 
without copying them again.

It's confusing to explain. But you can easily build an iTunes 4 setup 
on the iPod's boot disk that mirrors the iPod's contents that are 
available for playing from the Pod.

Anyone want to help me explain this an easier way? I did it an easier 
way but I can't explain it.

k

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 12:17  PM, Kunga wrote:

> OK. I did the boot iPod music test. When you add music to the Pod from 
> it's own music files it copies them to the iPod Control folder. So no, 
> this technique creates a set of duplicates in the Pod. But you could 
> have a Library of the Pod's music that you would not be able to play 
> from the Pod unless it's the boot disk.