Damn iTunes

[Stiganator]

I have an iPod Touch. I use it at work and I use it at home. I loaded all of my music from work. When I came home I plugged it in to get some photos. I specifically said, do NOT sync music. But after my photos were loaded, all my music is gone.

How can I load stuff from home and work with out this happening?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
I have an iPod Touch. I use it at work and I use it at home. I loaded all of my music from work. When I came home I plugged it in to get some photos. I specifically said, do NOT sync music. But after my photos were loaded, all my music is gone.

How can I load stuff from home and work with out this happening?

Set the sync to manual

 

[Stiganator]

Didn't I? As I specifically told it not to sync music

 

[Stiganator]

Damnit, it just happened again when I had resynced it from the same computer. I synched the music I wanted. I then turned of synching for music. I added some trailers and hit synch and wham, there goes my music again.

 

[zacharace]

I think you have to set it to, overall, manually sync. I gather that iTunes overwrites everything, even if it isn't specified, when it syncs automatically.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
Damnit, it just happened again when I had resynced it from the same computer. I synched the music I wanted. I then turned of synching for music. I added some trailers and hit synch and wham, there goes my music again.

I may be mistaken, but I think it considers all media alike, and as such you can only add/sync media from 1 computer. Thus, when you add music from your work computer, then try to add other media (trailers) from your home computer, it will delete all the music you previously added from your work computer.

 

[Stiganator]

Seems like a significant flaw to me.

Where is the overall manual sync? I'm not seeing it anywhere.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
Seems like a significant flaw to me.

Where is the overall manual sync? I'm not seeing it anywhere.

When you connect the iPod, click on the item on the left, it should show up in the middle window (the main page for the iPod)

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Stiganator
Seems like a significant flaw to me.

Where is the overall manual sync? I'm not seeing it anywhere.

I believe it has something to do with copy protection. Let us assume that you have more than one computer, and let us also assume that you have media spread across this collection of more than one computer, then it would stand to reason that you could have a way to either duplicate this media either literally, or technically. Therefore nothing should be stopping a user from simply allocating all their media to one iTunes library, or even all iTunes libraries.

I don't know, I have never been allowed to store personal media on a work computer... so you may be in a bit of a minority here on this one in that they are on separate networks and getting the media to the other itunes library will be a chore.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: Stiganator
Seems like a significant flaw to me.

Where is the overall manual sync? I'm not seeing it anywhere.

I believe it has something to do with copy protection. Let us assume that you have more than one computer, and let us also assume that you have media spread across this collection of more than one computer, then it would stand to reason that you could have a way to either duplicate this media either literally, or technically. Therefore nothing should be stopping a user from simply allocating all their media to one iTunes library, or even all iTunes libraries.

I don't know, I have never been allowed to store personal media on a work computer... so you may be in a bit of a minority here on this one in that they are on separate networks and getting the media to the other itunes library will be a chore.

I think Manual mode eliminates this though, at least it did on old iPods (the touch may be the same as the iPhone though, dunno).

In Manual Mode, you can add music/media from any computer, its not sync'ed in the classical sense, it just acts like an external drive.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: Stiganator
Seems like a significant flaw to me.

Where is the overall manual sync? I'm not seeing it anywhere.

I believe it has something to do with copy protection. Let us assume that you have more than one computer, and let us also assume that you have media spread across this collection of more than one computer, then it would stand to reason that you could have a way to either duplicate this media either literally, or technically. Therefore nothing should be stopping a user from simply allocating all their media to one iTunes library, or even all iTunes libraries.

I don't know, I have never been allowed to store personal media on a work computer... so you may be in a bit of a minority here on this one in that they are on separate networks and getting the media to the other itunes library will be a chore.

I think Manual mode eliminates this though, at least it did on old iPods (the touch may be the same as the iPhone though, dunno).

In Manual Mode, you can add music/media from any computer, its not sync'ed in the classical sense, it just acts like an external drive.

You can't copy off the ipod though.

 

[Stiganator]

yeah I don't want to copy off just on

 

[Tyranicus]

As others said above, setting it to manually manage music and videos will allow you to put files from different computers on it.

 

[Stiganator]

the problem is I can't just drag files to the ipod in itunes. I can only seem to add things by going to the tab in question (music, photos, movies, applications...) and hitting sync or apply.

If I just take one song from a library and try to drag it to the ipod, it doesn't work.

 

[Tyranicus]

On the summary tab, you need to check the box that says "Manually manage music and videos." Then you will be able to drag and drop.