chris;
no clue to your first question, however on your second question i
beleave it will just put ito n there once and link to it from your
second playlist, this is just a guess on my part.
mike
On Jan 20, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
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.
Michael Babcock
GW Hosting, Your Dedicated Home On The Web
Phone: +1-888-272-3555, ext 4121
email: [email protected]
administrative e-mail: [email protected]
url: http://gwhosting.net
