ipod

[Booney]

Can I import music to my new ipod without downloading iTunes?

[Wedgie]

Yes, you can use software such as gtkpod, banshee or amarok.
gtkpod is just an interface where the other 2 are media players also.
I can't personally vouch for them as I use iTunes.

[Dissident]

Can use Winamp too, just download the plugin.

[BenchedEagle]

itunes is wikid, get on board.
I just figured out how to create my own ringtones for my iphone using just itunes, sweet as

[Wedgie]

Its easy creating your own ringtones but Itunes is a heap of crap, my biggest downpoint on owning an Iphone.

[Wedgie]

Booney, any update on how you went? I'm seriously considering giving Itunes the arse, it's the only negative aspect to the Iphone.

[Booney]

Sorry mate, ended up using iTunes as the others all looked a bit "messy" to use.

I didnt like the 90mb download to start with, thats what I was trying to avoid. Ended up with it and in fact, dont mind it.

[Wedgie]

Cheers, might give them a go myself and report back on here as Itunes shits me no end.

[smithy]

My 2 girls got an IPod each for xmas so I downloaded ITunes.
Problem I have is, when I sync one IPod, it puts on songs that was recently put onto the other.
So 1 daughter is getting songs that the other daughter wanted and vice versa.
Basically, when I add songs to library, those songs will show up no matter which IPod I plug in and the syncing grabs all of them, hence the unwanted songs.
If I click on only add checked songs, all previous songs that I've put on are gone and we need to start again.


Is there a way around this ?
Any help would be great.

[gadj1976]

Smithy, I think you need to register both ipods on itunes. What itunes will be doing is thinking it's the same ipod, then just synching it each time.

What I did with a friend of mines was to register hers as 'her name' and mine as 'my name' so that it didn't try and auto synch each time. (mine is a 120gb, hers is a 2gb).

[Wedgie]

yeah I tunes is a pain, I seem to be alright with an Iphone and a Itouch on the same Itunes but if you get two devices that are the same all hell breaks loose, luckily we have about 5 computers so I took the cheats way out and just installed Itunes on all my machines and get a different Itouch/phone on each pc.

[smithy]

Smithy, I think you need to register both ipods on itunes. What itunes will be doing is thinking it's the same ipod, then just synching it each time.

What I did with a friend of mines was to register hers as 'her name' and mine as 'my name' so that it didn't try and auto synch each time. (mine is a 120gb, hers is a 2gb).

Thanks gadj, sounds like good advice.
By registering you mean sending information to the apple itunes website ?
My next question then is, when registered , can it detect what content is going onto your IPOD and possibly "brick it" if you have content they deem to be "illegal" ?

[gadj1976]

Smithy, I think you need to register both ipods on itunes. What itunes will be doing is thinking it's the same ipod, then just synching it each time.

What I did with a friend of mines was to register hers as 'her name' and mine as 'my name' so that it didn't try and auto synch each time. (mine is a 120gb, hers is a 2gb).

Thanks gadj, sounds like good advice.
By registering you mean sending information to the apple itunes website ?
My next question then is, when registered , can it detect what content is going onto your IPOD and possibly "brick it" if you have content they deem to be "illegal" ?

Registering - yep. You can do that via your account details within itunes, or on their website.

It can block it by using the option in your account details but I use the "manually synch" option so that you only bring on to your ipod what you want. If you want to auto synch you can, but I find I delete more stuff in error than using manually synch.

[The Sleeping Giant]

yeah I tunes is a pain, I seem to be alright with an Iphone and a Itouch on the same Itunes but if you get two devices that are the same all hell breaks loose, luckily we have about 5 computers so I took the cheats way out and just installed Itunes on all my machines and get a different Itouch/phone on each pc.

But what happens when World of Warcraft is running on all 5 PCs?

[Wedgie]

yeah I tunes is a pain, I seem to be alright with an Iphone and a Itouch on the same Itunes but if you get two devices that are the same all hell breaks loose, luckily we have about 5 computers so I took the cheats way out and just installed Itunes on all my machines and get a different Itouch/phone on each pc.

But what happens when World of Warcraft is running on all 5 PCs?

ha ha smartarse!