Help me with iPod and iTunes please!

2. select the duplicate songs, right click and select "clear".

3. Do the same as above, but select & delete the songs when you have your ipod selected on the left side of the screen.

don't erase songs from your library as your method of choosing what to sync. i'd recommend either

- create a special playlist (or more, if desired) for your ipod syncing. when the pod is plugged in, you'll get an icon in the lower right corner for ipod options - within those menus you can choose what playlists to sync.

or

- use the checkmark system to determine what to sync. this is also a checkbox within the ipod options. "sync only checked files" or something. keep in mind that the checkmarks effect every playlist & the library. i.e. if you uncheck something on a playlist, it also unchecks it in the library and everywhere else.

that's why i go with #1 - i use the checks to "turn off" songs which i don't really want to hear at this time (if i put it on random, say)

you are going to have to take the time to do a major cleaning of id tags in order for itunes and your ipod to work really well. sucks but it's worth it! itunes is actually a pretty good tool for tag editing. you can edit bunches of songs at once, where applicable, by highlighting them and rightclick --> get info

HIT IT WITH TRUNCHEON.

this ephpod thing is weird, i don't think i had uninstalled it when i put itunes on here, but didn't have this problem of it showing up

that used to happen to me a lot in ephpod, though i haven't seen it yet in itunes. but yes, it had to do with tags

Can't remember where the option for Restore is (except that you do it on the computer, not the iPod) and it's probably different on a PC anyway.

When I attempt to import/rip tracks into iTunes, the resulting mp3s are choppy. When I do the same with other software, the results are fine.

This problem might not be completely tied to iTunes, though -- I just noticed that the sound is also choppy when I'm listening to mp3s off otherwise fine data CDRs.

Any ideas? I've had all other applications and whatnot closed out while doing this, so I know it doesn't come down to having too much stuff running at the same time.

It started just the other day. Everything was smooth until then.

I've had this problem while running no other apps.

Does it happen with every CD?

It has happened with the four or five that I've attempted to import/rip since the problem first started.

And I do think that the issue goes beyond iTunes, since playing an mp3 off a data CDR through Windows Media Player gives me the choppiness as well. HOWEVER, if I copy an mp3 off a data CDR and PLAY THAT through WMP, the sound is fine.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Yes teeny, you can drag and drop if you want, but iTunes works with this thing called a Library, which makes life great in so many ways, but it's kind of a pain if you just want to listen to something other than an audio CD just temporarily.

Sounds like something's got corrupt somehow. Have you tried Restoring your iPod?

Buy a Creative and be free of all this shit.

You know that you have to click the triangle icon in podcasts in itunes to see the list of individual podcasts under a general heading?

new query:

how does one convert one's avi, jpegs and mpegs such that i can put them on the ipod? i'm not sure i'd ever do this since i'm gonna easily fill it up with music but it would be nice to know how if i so desired to do so.

I don't have an iPod, so I can't help you. iTUNES is another matter... I think anything Quicktime can read can be converted...

for avis and mpgegs and stuff use http://www.isquint.org/

My father-in-law just gave me his son's unused iPod (haha, it had Bob Marley's Legend, a Doors best of, and Led Zepplin IV, and that's it).

ANYWAY, it was formatted for Windows & I have a Mac. So, here's what Apple tells me to do to restore it to factory settings (is this even what I'd want to do? From everything I've read, I understand this is the correct path.):

• Select your iPod in the Source panel and you will see information about your iPod appear in the Summary tab of the main iTunes windows.

So far so good, coming up just as described...but THEN:

• Click the Restore button. You will be prompted with one or more restore options that may prompt iTunes to automatically download the latest iPod Software.

And that's what the Summary tab tells me to do, as well. The problem is: there is no restore button. Uh...what?

So, could anyone help me through this or guide me to another way to make this usable on my Mac?

I tied installing the updater program too. It's giving me this message:

iPod 2 Software cannot be installed on this computer. This update requires the Mac OS X Networking Update.

And the Apple site says this in their FAQ:

This can happen with any Mac with Mac OS X 10.4 or later when you try to use older iPod software. To avoid this, download and install the latest iPod Updater.

AND the link takes me to download iTunes 7.3.1, which I did, and no dice...the updater still isn't working.

...

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And that's what the Summary tab tells me to do, as well. The problem is: there is no restore button. Uh...what?
Have you tried scrolling down in the iPod settings pane? I don't have iTunes here to check, but I remember that catching me out a few times. I don't think you need to download the updater separately anymore either -- iPod v. 2 is pretty out-of-date now.

YAY! That did it. I feel like a silly now, but thx for the help stet! :)

the iPod Updater is a truly, truly horrid piece of software. i don't even want to remember the nightmare i had with it. heap of fucking shit.

anyone have any experience with ip0d c0py software? or any other good way to prevent auto synching?

can't you just turn synching off?

i want to set up my new ipod now but i don't have my computer with me. i'm pretty sure that i'll lose anything i've put on it when i sync it to my own itunes.

but hmm... i think you're right about turning syncing off and just using the manual option. it's been over a year since i've had an ipod, and i've forgotten everything. i'm acting like an 80 yr old woman.

when you get to your computer, just turn auto synching off in itunes before you attach the ipod, and I think you'll be fine (xpost)

also, don't forget to change those depends

yeah tun auto-sync off then use http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/ (if yr on a mac)

thanks! i think i still have p0dw0rks, but i'll check senuti out.

http://www.floola.com

Keep a copy on your iPod. Takes a little getting used to, but completely worth it. I use it exclusively, but it plays nicely aside iTunes, if that's how you roll.

I just bought my wife a Nano, and I'm trying to set it up. iTunes installed on her PC easily, and it was a breeze to connect the Nano to the PC for the first time.

But now it's been a few hours and the Nano still just says "Connected." No songs have been transferred (I burned four discs to the new iTunes to test the Nano), and I can't get beyond the "Connected" screen on the Nano. Should I just let it continue charging? If so, when has it charged enough? Or should I disconnect it and begin the process again?

Thanks.

you have to 'eject' it from itunes to use it

Thanks! Two follow-ups: (a) By "eject it," do you mean just disconnect it from the USB portal (or is there some other, more involved process I have to go through) and, once I eject it, (b) plug it in again?

Sorry to be so thick-headed. I'm not terribly tech-savvy.

once you've dumped what music you want on it, if you look on the bar on the left in itunes you'll see next to an icon of yr ipod a little eject symbol - click it then unplug yr ipod, you'll be able so scroll through all the menus etc

Thanks!

Gah. I "ejected the disc," but it didn't transfer any of the music files. Any further guidance is appreciated.

you have to "drag" the "music" to the "nano"

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1494#section3

or uncheck "manually manage music and videos" (should be on the main screen for the ipod), then it will copy over new songs automatically.

Not sure what you mean. I inserted four discs, and when the icon appeared asking if I wanted to import them to the nano, I clicked "yes." (I also downloaded one song from iTunes, just to test it). Then, I followed the steps DG kindly suggested. After ejecting the iPod, I didn't have any music files on it.

Do I have to drag the music to the nano beyond what I did?

--Ah--. I'll check out the support site. Thanks (and thanks to ledge; I'll try that now).

Do I have to drag the music to the nano beyond what I did?

yes

the icon appeared asking if I wanted to import them to the nano

yeah that will import to the library on the computer, then you move stuff to the ipod

Thanks again. I was able to manually transfer the songs to the nano (by "dragging and dropping" them). I'd much rather have everything sync automatically, but so far, I haven't been able to set up auto syncing (put differently, the "manually manage music and videos" option isn't anywhere to be found on my nano (as far as I can see); under Edit --> Preferences --> Syncing, there's an unchecked icon for "Disable automatic syncing for all iPhones and iPods," but it doesn't seem right to check and uncheck that box, and I don't see anything else fitting ledge's description).

in the bar on the left there's a 'devices' heading and and yr ipod will be underneath it - click on it and you'll get a status screen w/ a picture of yr ipod, you'll find the relevant check box there (as well as a 'sync' button, bottom right)

Have you tried selecting the icon of the iPod, in the left-hand column of iTunes, by clicking on it? That should give you lots of options.

xpost

i thought it'd be set to sync by default

I think auto-sync should be the default setting, DG. Not sure why it isn't (or if it's something I did -- unwittingly -- to alter the default). Tracer, I think I tried that, but I'll try again.

What's a good free solution to get music from an ipod to the computer, using Windows (I know the answer for a Mac, but this is for my parents...)?

there is a program that used to be called 'podutil' but is now called 'music rescue'.

Can you no longer show hidden files and folders, then navigate to the iPod_Control directory?

This is surely a ridiculous question but how do I rename my On The Go playlists when iTunes is up and running? I have tried souble/triple/quadruple clicking, right clicking, etc.. am I doomed to navigate to On The Go 7 whenever I need a Creedence fix?

Can you no longer show hidden files and folders, then navigate to the iPod_Control directory?

i had no idea this ever worked...the one time I looked inside my ipod the files were not named in a straighforward way and not in any kind of order.

^ this

If they're all tagged appropriately, the filename doesn't really matter.

but if you're just looking to pull a few files off, it is not a feasible solution. if you're trying to get everything off I suppose it's fine.

I did the following:

1. Point Winamp at the iPod_Control directory and load the whole thing.
2. Selected the files I wanted to grab.
3. "Converted" them from mp3 to mp3, in essence copying the ones I wanted off of the iPod and into the Winamp output directory.

*flashes boobs, leg in hopes of someone pulling over, picking her up, and showing her how to rename her playlists*

3. "Converted" them from mp3 to mp3, in essence copying the ones I wanted off of the iPod and into the Winamp output directory.

I hope it (and you) were smart enough that it didn't reencode!