As you say, it's much easier to go along with iTunes.
If you are not using the latest iTunes it is difficult to know what
options you have but again, you seem to be making things harder than
you need to. With the iPod connected, you can change the sync option
from auto to 'Copy selected playlists' or full manual. I also have a
library larger than my 20 GB iPod's capacity and use the 'Copy
selected' option. I have a playlist for the iPod and the total size
shows in the bottom bar of the iTunes window. I add music to, or
remove it from, the playlist to fit in the iPod. This playlist *is*
what gets synced to the iPod when next connected.
This is all much easier than what you are doing now!
Otto
On 07/12/2007, Dave Zav <motorrazor@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello all.
> I joined this group a year ago and found many members happy to help
> with my questions. Thanks to everyone here willing to spread their
> knowledge. I am a windows user and I have a 20 gig iPod and I use the
> iTunes that came with it (from CD). It works fine like that so I have
> not tried to update the software.
> I don't use iTunes to play music on my computer and I also do not use
> libraries or play lists when playing MP3s. I use an old version of
> Winamp (v2.64) and just drag in songs I want to hear.
> When I started using my iPod I experienced some hurdles, as iTunes
> just works differently than I am used to. I tried fighting it,
> but soon learned that it was just easier to play along.
> So I made a folder and moved the 20 gigs of music that I wanted
> on the iPod into that folder and then launched iTunes.
> I added the folder to the library, connected my iPod, and chose to
> manually synch. All 20 gigs didn't actually fit on the iPod so I
> would shut down iTunes, edit the contents of the folder and then
> re-import the folder and start over again until
> I had a folders worth of music that fit on the iPod.
> This was my solution to managing my iPod and I was glad to have some
> sense of control. It works for me.
> But, there are about 100 MP3s in my folder that iTunes says can not
> be put onto the iPod, for whatever reason. I don't care at this
> point why, but I would like to know which ones so I can move them
> out of the folder on the computer and replace them with MP3s that
> do play on the iPod. Then I imagine I can fill the iPod to the brim
> and have a matching folder of the same files.
> Is there some way of determining this without comparing
> the 2 devices' contents manually (a daunting task)?
> Ideally, I'd like a folder that matches my iPod's contents exactly
> and then control the play list by adding and removing files from my
> folder on the computer, and then synching the iPod.
> My apologies if this is confusing or frustrating to users that find
> iTunes to be the perfect music management program. I'm a real hands
> on person when it comes to computer files and prefer this
> method for my own satisfaction of whipping my files into shape.
> Thanks for reading.
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