Sorry I wasn't clear. When you first run iTunes it will ask if you want iTunes to manage your music or if you want to manage it yourself. Letting itunes manage it, will most likely end up moving your music you wish on your ipod to be imported into the windows music folder. If you just manage the music yourself, the music stays wherever you have it now and then you can tell itunes to scan a local HD for all mp3's or as I do, just drag and drop all the music you want into iTunes. iTunes will still load your music onto the ipod but that's all it will do. I don't use iTunes for anything except loading music and getting podcasts, tagging, ripping playing music on the local machine etc I do with other programs...old habits I guess.
Mike On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > That dell wasn't bad for it's time, but the software was > > horrid...almost as bad as soundstage is for sony. > > It was a solid device; no scratches on it ever. I never used the awful > MusicMatch that came with it. Just the Explorer plug-in. > > > I've been using iTunes on xp pro, vista 64 for several years and have > > never had a single issue. Just don't let iTunes manage your music and > all > > will be well. I keep all my ripped music on an external drive and iTunes > never > > touches it unless I happen to change an mp3 tag once in awhile. > > Maybe I'm not understanding what you are saying here, but how do you get > music onto the iPod if you don't use iTunes for that? > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
