Help I want to start over with iPod!!

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podchef says:

Try making a smart playlist or two to sync just what you want to have on the iphone. If one of them includes a condition to only keep tracks which haven't been played you should be able to keep some stuff on the phone which is "fresh" (like podcasts).

I don't have a phone, but heard someone suggest this on an iPhone 'cast.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

fkoehn says:

Dave, please don't tell me that after all these years you still don't know how the iPod works?
You DON'T delete anything on the device, you tell iTunes not to put in on the device in the first place, and on the next sync it'll be gone.
GRanted, it's not how you may want it to work, but that's how it has always worked.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

scriptingnews says:

FKoehn, check out what the reviewer in Time said: "when you're transferring content from your computer to the iPhone, you can't simply drag and drop tracks into the phone, in that richly satisfying way you did with your iPod. Moving music and video around is a matter of instructing iTunes to 'sync' the iPhone with one more playlists. The procedure feels clumsy and imprecise — you can't just spear a specific little chunk of content, like a canape with a toothpick, and chuck it into the device for later consumption."

I'm pretty sure you're wrong, that they changed something here, and a very convenient mode of use for iPods esp ones with limited amounts of memory, isn't available on the iPhone.

In either case, right or wrong, you sure are one rude mofo.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

fkoehn says:

Dave,

first of all: never did I intend to be rude - I apologise if that came acros s badly. I have tons of respect for your work, so I sure wouldn't want to offend you.

I may be wrong, but that's how I have been using iTunes/iPod ever since the first one I got: either you sync your whole library, or you pick the playlists you want on the device. I have just checked on my Nano, drag&drop only works if you have set manual sync, which seems not to be possible on the iPhone (as you wrote).

That may be more or less convenient (that's a matter of how someones brain works, I guess), but podchef's remark is on the spot: the workaround is to create one playlist that you mark for automatic sync, and then you just drag&drop in that playlist.

Best of both worlds ;)
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Pete Prodoehl says:

Yup, I've only owned an iPod since 2005 but either syncing it with your entire library, or with selected playlists is the way I've always done it. I have had to tell this to a few people in the last year or so, and they all see to get it once I explain it. Granted it is different from other MP3 players I've used. (I used to use a Rio with iTunes and you had to drap/copy files onto the device physically, no syncing.)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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