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Post by granters on Jul 23, 2007 21:09:24 GMT
Anyone else got an ipod? Spent about 4 hours putting my collection on, deleted it from the computer to save space, then the next time i put one album on it wiped everything else off! How in the name of the wee man do i add songs to it without wiping the existing catalogue! Help!
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Post by williegunn on Jul 23, 2007 21:46:38 GMT
I don't think you can I just leave everything on the computer. Everytime you connect the IPod it copies everything on the computer, as you have just discovered
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Post by elwyman on Jul 23, 2007 22:36:07 GMT
That seems ridiculous - I'll seek advice from my 16 year old daughter, they do come in handy occasionally.  |
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Post by juniorspey on Jul 23, 2007 22:50:56 GMT
Aye, u have to keep everything in your itunes library if you want to delete a song you take it out of the library, then plug in and update ur ipod! kynda stupid really!!!
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Post by granters on Jul 24, 2007 18:38:04 GMT
Thanks chaps, unfortunately i have a massive collection and even half of it is slowing the computer down so i can't leave it on as i need it for work. Surely there must be some way of adding one album at a time? Seems completely idiotic otherwise  |
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Post by williegunn on Jul 24, 2007 19:19:56 GMT
"New Apple Technology"
Apple Computer announced today that it has
developed a computer chip that can store and
play music in women's breast implants. The
iBreast will cost $499 with 4 GB of memory
or $599 with 8 GB.
This is a major breakthrough because women
are always complaining about men staring at
their breasts and not listening to them!
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Post by hornet on Jul 24, 2007 20:12:40 GMT
I think (not 100%) there is a check box when you first install it where it asks you if you want to automatically update everytime you plug in.Try and see if you can uncheck it.
I took everything off the pc and copied them to disc as i also had problems with the pc slowing down. I should really have added another hard drive to store my music.
Hornet
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Post by tynetraveller on Jul 24, 2007 20:32:30 GMT
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Post by juststartedagain on Jul 24, 2007 20:52:45 GMT
Yep agree with last post - best option on a PC is to buy a USB hard drive - you can get them pretty cheap - £80 for one that will back up all your data. You can then copy all your CD's onto this BTW - my wife has an Apple laptop and this doesnt seem to have the same issue in terms of iTunes library slowing the machine down..then again thats not exactly a surprise ..  That said I used to be a big fan of Macs in the 80's until you couldn't get any decent software to run on them - much better for music and photography - everything works first time without having to load stupid drivers and rebooting every 30 secs!! |
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Post by tynetraveller on Jul 24, 2007 21:26:51 GMT
A usb drive can be had for £20 or £30 these days- Also handy for backing up other bits and pieces should your main drive ever fail.
Modern PCs shouldn't have any problem at all with an i-tunes set-up- It is just slightly older models that will struggle.
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Post by juststartedagain on Jul 24, 2007 21:34:59 GMT
someone in our purchasing dept is making a killing then  £80 for 80GB last week!! |
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Post by duncanm on Jul 24, 2007 22:21:43 GMT
I got a 250 gb drive off Amazon to keep my Itunes and digital photo's on and it works fine. Cost about 60 quid I think (Its a western digital my book)
you can also set your ipod up to update manually instead of automatically through Itunes.
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Post by tynetraveller on Jul 25, 2007 15:27:55 GMT
a 20 gig drive should back up most i-tunes libraries. They are practically giving them away now..
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£80 for 80GB last week!!