iPod Problems!

Well, kinda

I hooked my ipod up the other day, just to charge it with the USB cable thing. I was running firefox, but didnt notice that Itunes had started up. It began to tranfer all my data on to the ipod, most of which I dont want on there. How to stop this??????

Another thing, If I hook my ipod up to a different computer, will all previous data be lost?

 

When using an Ipod, it will only allow you sync music/files to one Itunes, if you connect it to another computer you won't instantly lose everything on there, but you won't be able to put anything new on it, without wiping it.

 

i believe that you can set it to manually sync on itunes or something of that sort.

 

There are a number of things you could do. In iTunes, you could go to Preferences>Syncing, and check the DISABLE AUTOMATIC SYNCING checkbox.
You could also connect your iPod to your laptop, start up iTunes, and uncheck the Open iTunes when this iPod is connected checkbox.

If you connect it to a different computer, iTunes will give you a message of warning with the option of not syncing.

 

Under manual, I'm able to put tunes on my Ipod from both of my PCs.

 

Hi.

here are a few alternatives to iTunes

http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/07/08/10-alternatives-to-itunes-for-managing-your-ipod/

Regards

John.

 

Can they also transfer games?

 

If you were to use it as an external hard drive, sure. I do not know about the details of that though. But keep in mind you may have to wipe all its data before you are able to do this.

 

I mean IPOD games.

 

MediaMonkey: Uses less resources than Itunes, does everything Itunes can, has more plugins to allow you to play all different kinds of music, overall better

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

 

Does this allow you to transfer recordings from the ipod to your DT?

 

Yay.

Thinking Itunes to be an user friendly software (an critical error on my part), I asked it to sync only one playlist.

I come back after an hour. I play my i"wishIgotaZune"Pod, the playlist is their. But it wiped my other 30GB of songs.

Wonderful Apple!!
I Love Them!!!



Media Monkey doesnt work well for me.....

Any other alternatives

 

the problems you are having are not iTunes issues, but just the way you are using it. iTUnes is very user friendly.

you can easily check manual syncing, or just have yoru iPod automatically sync to the playlists of your choice, or even more simply, just check to not have iTunes start when you plug in your iPod.

all of your "issues" are just user error, it only syncs what YOU tell it to, if you tell it to only sync one playlist, that is what it will do, it won't continue to sync the rest that you told it to not continue syncing.

am I missing something here? what is the problem? what does iTunes not do that you want it do do?

like any Music/Media player you should ALWAYS keep everything backed up on your computer as well, it is not an external storage device, it can be used as that yes, but it is a HDD it can fail, moving parts, etc. etc.

iTunes will automatically sync/unsync what you tell it too, only sync manually what you drag and drop/add to it. What else do you need it to do?

I recommend setting up smart playlists that automatically contain your top rated music, actually rate your music, and have the iPod sync everything in that playlist, which will dynamically update as you rate more music, make one for all levels of ratings that you want, I recommend making a "My Top Rated" playlist that will contain only 4 and 5 star songs.

or if you can, just sync it all, but make sure to just keep it on your COMPUTER, I can't stress this enough, if you don't want it to take up space on your computer by a larger HDD, simple as that, I am so tired of hearing people complain about losing their music when the only place they keep it is on an iPod, and the iPod HDD fails because they drop it.

 

Can Mediamonkey Transfer VIdeos?