IamBatman
10-09-2006, 08:34 PM
i just got my ipod and we have two computers in the house. is it possible to get songs from both computers?
jhollington
10-09-2006, 08:48 PM
Hi and welcome to iLounge.
It is if you set your iPod to manual mode versus using automatic sync. To set the iPod to manual, you have to connect it to one of your computers with iTunes on it and select the option to "Manually Manage my Music and Videos", which will be on the iPod "Summary" tab in iTunes 7, or under Edit->Preferences->iPod in previous versions of iTunes.
In manual mode, you drag-and-drop songs from your iTunes library to your iPod, and can obviously do this from multiple iTunes libraries. There will be no association between the music on your iPod and the music in those libraries, and ratings and playcounts will not be transferred back to your computer.
In automatic sync (which is the default), your iPod will mirror the content of the iTunes library on one computer. Therefore, in your case, this will only work if you were to copy all of your music from both computers onto a single one. There are many advantages to automatic sync, the biggest being that any changes you make to your library on the computer are automatically updated onto the iPod every time you connect it. Therefore, you may want to consider consolidating all of your music into one iTunes library just to make things simpler.
franticnomad
10-09-2006, 08:52 PM
if you manually sync songs.
this question has been asked many times before and i always ask my self the same question every time i read it. I can kind of understand getting songs from home and from work, etc., but why would put content on two different computers at home when you can just separate things with smart playlists, etc. i have more than one pc in the house as well, but would find it time consuming, and a pain to keep two libraries of content organized.
just wondering what your reasoning is?