iPod Question

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 10:30am

This morning I wanted to load one of my CDs onto my iPod. I burned the CD to my computer, and when I went to sync this to my iPod, for the life of me I couldn't get the CD to transfer over (there is enough room). I tried deselecting songs already on there and re-syncing and those were removed from my song list, yet the selected songs of the recently burned CD still wouldn't transfer over.

Anybody have a clue why? Many thanks.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 10:52am

Did you import it into your itunes?

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 10:58am

Tazber, I did. I even checked to see, and it was.

[bethnor]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 11:14am

i organize my ipod a bit differently, but maybe this will help:

in itunes, on the top bar, click on files.

select "new playlist." name it after your cd.

go the "library - music" which should be right under "files." find the cd which has been burned onto your cpu. click on the first track, hold select then click on the last track on the cd (which will hilight the entire cd). move the selection into the playlist. open the playlist by clicking on it to make sure all the tracks are on it.

plug in your ipod.

after your ipod appears, select the playlist and move it onto your ipod.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 11:17am

That's exactly how I do it, too, bethnor and I have never had a problem.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 11:24am

I've never had to do that before, but will try that when I get home.

Thanks.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 11:58am

With my Ipod connected, I usually just highlight the songs I want to transfer in my Music Folder and just drag them over to my Ipod.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 12:03pm

Roscoe, how do you get it to automatically sync up?

Updated On: 7/29/09 at 12:03 PM

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 12:23pm

I have a lot more music on my Itunes than I could fit onto my Ipod, so I set it up so that only new podcasts are automatically added directly to my Ipod, if that makes any sense.

So when I want to add a new album to my Ipod I have to do it myself. Sorry if that's not clear, I could describe it more clearly but I'm not at my home computer.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 12:29pm

I was bummed, because I was all set to listen to Linda Ronstadt's, "Prisoner in Disguise" on my way to work this morning.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 12:30pm

That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger, dottie.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 12:31pm

LOL, I was even late for work trying to figure it out and then finally had to give up.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 6:24pm

I never sync. I drag the playlist to the ipod. I don't keep all my music on my computer and I'm always afraid if I sync it'll delete all the music on my ipod.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/28/09 at 7:56pm

Thanks for the suggestions - I dragged this to my playlist and it worked. Yet, when I selected the songs I had previously de-selected, those were automatically added back to my iPod when I re-synced. I have no idea why this particular CD was different.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 5:53am

I just realized I left out the most crucial word in my question.

I meant to ask how do you get the ipod to NOT automatically sync when you plug it in.
I selected the option "only sync checked songs" (or whatever it says) and then I went through my library and unselected a lot of songs. But they transferred anyway.

Should I select "manual"? does that let you drag the lists to the ipod?

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 3:04pm

I had to click "summery" and then scroll to "options" and check "manually manage music and videos". Before I did that everytime I'd add a new song or album my ipod would automatically sync up with my current playlist and delete everything on my ipod that was no longer on my itunes playlist.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 3:05pm

I have a question too. My laptop crashed and they had to replace the whole hard drive, therefore losing my itunes library. Can I plug my ipod into my husband's computer and get a library set up here?

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 3:31pm

You can get the songs off the ipod and back on to the hard drive if that's what you mean, but you can't do it with itunes. Apple doesn't let you. You have to download a freeware program.

[binau]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 5:46pm

If you don't have an iPod Touch and have your iPod on disk mode, and have hidden files/folders on, you'll find that all your music files are in obscurely named files/folders. If you re-import this into iTunes, you'll get all your music back and the ID3 tags are still there so the filenames won't make much difference.

Obviously you've lost playlists, playcounts etc.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 11:12pm

Is there a way to edit the titles of the songs on the songlist? I downloaded the Broadway production of The Pirates of Penzance, and all the songs from Act 2 were listed by their correct titles, whereas all Act 1 songs say, "The Pirates of Penzance".

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 11:27pm

There are several way to edit titles. The easiest is just to click the title that you'd like to change -- click twice but not a fast double click. The other way is to right click the song title, click "get info" and then click the "info" tab.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 12:01am

Thank you, CATS!! It worked and re-synced correctly, too.

Updated On: 7/30/09 at 12:01 AM

[tazber]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 5:38am

CATS, where did you find the "summery" (or summary, not sure if that was a typo)? I want to switch mine to manual but I can't find that tab. I do have "options" under edit, but there is nothing that mentions manual or auto-sync.

[binau]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 7:43am

Go to devices on the left and click your iPod, then go to the summary tab.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/30/09 at 8:26am

I'm so clueless I feel like you guys are speaking a foreign language. I should just go to the apple store.