Yeah, i called Apple, actually, regarding the second question, and they said
the same thing. BTW, I went back and looked at my original post. I'm sorry
guys about that bit a garbage that got at the beginning of the mail. I dono
what the bloody heck that was, or where it even came from. LOL! Computers.
They got such a mind a their own sometimes. LOL!
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Babcock" <[email protected]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: Question about Nano, or any IPod for that mind, syncing
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.
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