On 03 Nov 2005, at 21:17 , David Wilson wrote: > That's just what I want to do- have lots of random iPods connected > to play songs - > > on the manual update - do you mean after I plug it in, I set the > iPod pref to manually update? That's how it's > set now for my own iPod. Does that pref stay with the iPod wherever > you plug it in? I don't want to mess around > with their prefs if they've got it set up for their own computer. > I do this all the time on my laptop when I travel, and when I come home and attach it to the normal machine, it still syncs as normal. So, I don't think it should be a problem to do this. I think the setting is only for that iPod on the local computer. If not, the iPod owner only needs to reset the pref in iTunes on their computer. Allan