1 iPod 2 Computers

olds

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I bought my wife an iPod Nano for Xmas. She has tunes on her laptop and I have tunes on my desktop. We used her laptop to set up the player.
I know I can set iTunes on my PC to "Manually Manage" the iPod so that I can add songs from my desktop to her iPod.
But, will iTunes delete the files when she hooks back up to her laptop and syncs?
TIA
 

tdawg

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Yes, I'm almost positive that itunes will delete the music on the touch and resync it with the laptop that is set to automatically sync. It will warn you that all the music will be erased with the sync, but I don't think there's a way around it. Itunes 9.2 or whatever we're on now has some account sharing method built in so it can exist on multiple pc's, but I'm not sure how it works exactly.
 

hanoverphist

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there is a way around it if you have them on the same network. add both shares to itunes on both sides with a mapped drive and it will see the same music in both itunes, and sync to both libraries
 

pm

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Right. What hanoverphist said. If you have two identical copies of the library and keep them up to date, then it will do it.

The only way that I know how to do it is to merge your music libraries and playlists together on one computer and then do a complete copy of the entire itunes directory and all .xml files from one computer to the other. And then it will work. You'll want to keep both music libraries synchronized so that music added to one gets put into the other computer.

As tdawg said, there's a way to do account sharing on two computers, but I have never gotten it to work with playlists and such. But the method that hanoverphist posted has worked for me.