PL. tjos os [ro,aro;u speaking of the Nano 4th gen 8 and 16GB's, however, I
am curious in general. I have a few questions that I'd like to ask of you
all. I'm sure one of the two has come up before, but I honestly dono what
it would do if I tried this scenario.
Firstly, the least highest priority of the two questions. If your'e gonna
answer any of these two questions, answer the second question, not this one.
Basically, my friend, Ben, as many a you all know I've talked about quite
frequently, got a Nano 4th Gen 16GB for Christmas. Well, I helped him with
JFW10 and ITunes set his IPod up so that it would do pretty much exactly as
I got mine set. I basically via a tandom session, made a playlist for him
called "IPod." Yep, that's literally what I called it. "IPod." Minus the
quotes, obviously. Anyway, I told ITunes to only sync certain playlists,
and then pointed it to the IPod playlist. Well, that worked flawlessly,
just as anticipated. Now, here's however, where things get really really
bazaar. Ben also has a Shuffle. I speak the newer shuffles, I think his is
the 2 gig. Obviously, that one you can't sync certain playlists, as the
shuffle's a playlist, in itself. So, again, all fine and good. Now the
problem arose about 3 nights ago, when Ben was asked by his mom Lissa, if
he';d fill up her IPod for her, so that she'd not have to have her
co-worker, from work do it. He very willingly agreed. Before I go any
further, let me say, his mom has the 4 gig Nano 3rd gen. So her's, doesn't
have speech, regretfully. Well, When Ben plugged her's in originally, he
had all 3 IPods connected to his system. They were all going straight
through the USB 2.0 ports on his laptop, no hubs in place or anything. The
weird thing is, he made a playlist called Mom's IPod. Her IPod was
originally synced with a Macintosh, so, Ben had to restore it and reformat
it to Windows. That obviously wiped it. He then made sure she had the
latest firmware. She's got 1.0.3. Well, we set everything up and we told
it not to turn off IPod syncing etc. We then went to the music tab and told
it to only sync certain playlists. The only one that we checked was Mom's
IPod. Note that while Mom's IPod is the name of the playlist that we used,
Mom's Nano is the actual name of her IPod. So, basically, we're trying to
sync Mom's IPod playlist, to Mom's Nano device. Well, this all was fine,
except it's telling us that there is not enough room to sync the selected
playlists. It says the IPod has 3.69GB free, but the playlist Mom's IPod is
apparently over 12 gigs. That is so! not true. There's not a single track
in that damn playlist. Excuse my language, but, this is totally! bazaar. I
had Ben go and restore his IPod. I even had him first before doing so,
unplug all the other IPods from the machine first. I hear that ITunes can
act kind a functified if you got multiple IPods connected
simultaneously. Well, even after doing that, deleting and re! creating that
playlist, and even giving it a whole different name, and then checking only
that playlist, it still! says the same thing. If we just ignore that and
say ok, yeah, whatever you say, stupid, it won't sync if he hits the sync
button after putting stuff over in that, sed, playlist. I'm completely
perplexed. Actually, we both are. I even asked a friend tonight who used
to have a Nano 3rd gen if she knew, and she's also clueless. We did get it
to work, but we kind a cheated. What we wound up doing, was to go ahead and
turn off podcast syncing, let it make a playlist of its own called Mom's
Nano Selection and randomly auto-fill it with random things from his
library. Then! once that was done, what I had 'em do, was to go to that
playlist, and kill everything in it. Then go back to his music library, and
then add things to that playlist manually. then! sync. that! seemed to
work. A corse now, if Lissa wants other playlists to be synced, I'm not
fully convinced it's gonna let us do so in the music tab, being it didn't
let us, when we did it the other way. Ben's Nano still works fine, and so
does his shuffle, so I don't think we did anything too fatally terrorizing.
LOL! Yeah, I dono. I'm totally rediculously clueless. This is gonna drive
me crazy! until I figure out what the bird! I'm totally lost.
As for my second question, I have my Nano set up 4th gen, btw, 8 gig, as the
device name Chris's Nano. I'm syncing to it, a playlist called Transfers.
OK, that's working flawlessly. The question however is, ok, let's say I
have the song Good Riddance Time of your Life by Greenday, good song, btw,
in my transfers playlist. So, obviously, it was placed on the IPod when I
synced it. Well, let's say, that I now create a playlist called Lite Rock.
In this playlist, I also! put that same? exact? track. Then in the music
tab of the Nano, I check the box so now it's syncing not only! transfers,
but it's also! now syncing lite rock. OK, what will that do on my Nano.
Will it be smart enough to say, o! He's already got this on the IPod
elseware, thus, just make a linked reference to it in the playlist called
Lite Rock, or would it actually place two copies of it on my Nano, and if it
put two copies, then would I see two instances in it, if I went in the
browser of the IPod under music, artists? Is there a work around for this
so I don't get two instances just because I make another playlist?
Thanks for all your help guys. Greatly appreciate it.
Chris.
