Ipod/iTunes question...

[jlo mein]

I want to put some albums onto my Ipod, but don't want to store them on my PC harddrive. Currently my Ipod is set to sync with my PC, so if i delete the albums on my PC, the Ipod gets rid of them as well.

Is there a way to set your Ipod to sync with your PC, but not delete stuff that the Ipod has on it that your PC doesnt? (only add new songs, don't take away songs)...

 

[blessingx]

No... at least with iTunes. You have to switch to manual if you don't want both to be the same (with PC overriding so delete to match). If you do switch to manual you get use to the process pretty quickly.

 

[Siang]

also if you particularly like those albums, prolly a good idea to burn them onto a CD or keep them on your HD. If something happens with the ipod, wouldnt want to lose them.

 

[jlo mein]

I just thought of something and am wondering if someone else has tried it...

If i add albums to my iTunes library, sync it so they transfer to the ipod, then delete the albums off my pc harddrive, BUT keep the track listings in iTunes, will this fool the ipod into thinking i still have these songs?

Or does iTunes routinely remove tracks from its library that dont exist?

 

[Dyzrel]

i used it last night. pop CD in, convert to AAC then remove cd. listening to some of the songs right now in the library.

 

[stymie miasma]

Good questions jlo. I am going to purchase an iPod once I am satisfied quality control issues have been addressed. I am using an IBM Thinkpad and don't want clog-up my hard drive space with tunes - so in this regard I hope to rip a CD, transfer to the iPod and then delete the ripped file from my computer. From what I can gather from this thread, I can do this if I use the iPod in "manual" mode.

Hope to have some more folks share their experiences.

 

[appar111]

I don't think he was asking about if they'd still show up afterthe cd was removed-- if you've ripped them to your hard drive, then obviously they'd still show up. I believe he meant "will they still show up after the files themselves have been deleted from the hard drive?"

jlo mein - i'm just wondering if you can still keep the tracklistings in the iTunes library at all once they've been deleted off the hard drive.

I would just shut off the auto-sync function. I have a 20GB iPod and it's really not that much trouble to put on new albums, etc. onto the ipod individually. If its just stuff that's recently been added to the library, just click on the "date added" at the top of the library, and you can highlight stuff that way-- much easier than scrolling through your library to find stuff you've ripped in the last week, etc.

 

[Jahn]

this is what i do. i keep it on manual, not autosync. then the second i ever put anything on my ipod, i wipe it from the library and the computer hard drive. that way if i ever want to add anything else, i can find it really quick in my library to do some name and album tweaking before i pop it on my ipod. if i ever want to retrieve it from my ipod and store it somewhere on my computer (i dont bother with backups, when on the comp i just listen to tunes from my comp thru ipod/itunes) i'll just use a hack program like ipodagent to pull those tracks from the pod - something you can't do with itunes.

 

[stymie miasma]

Thanks Jahn, that sounds like a great way to go about business

 

[appar111]

Is there any sort of program for Mac where I could pull tunes off of my iPod and put them on my powerbook? iTunes doesn't allow for this, and I know there are some hacks for Windows stuff-- I was hoping there was something Mac based as well...