ITunes/IPod Question

**jmattbassplaya** · #1 01-23-2011, 10:24 AM

Hey guys,

So I have quite a lot of music on ITunes, but only 30GB on my IPod. As such, I've kinda been pigeonholed as to what ITunes decided to put on my IPod when I first transferred all my songs to my current PC about 2 years ago.

Anyways, I was wondering if there was a way to choose which songs go on your IPod and which ones don't. I figured you could just uncheck the songs in your library and then re-sync your IPod, but that didn't seem to work.

Does anyone know how I can choose what music goes on my IPod?

Thanks!

Jmathews8 · #2 01-23-2011, 10:30 AM

What you have to do is when you go to the Sync page on your iTunes click the music tab. On that page you should be able to check whether or not you want to sync the checked songs or your entire library. That should fix your problem.

Hutzbordello · #3 01-23-2011, 10:31 AM

yea theres an option to manually transfer music

**jmattbassplaya** · #4 01-23-2011, 10:36 AM

Yeah... I just did that and it cleared all the songs off my IPod and it won't reload them >.<

lol Maybe I need to do it manually, or just restart the thing?

Jmathews8 · #5 01-30-2011, 09:29 AM

It should have to do with what's on your iPod music tab. What's it say?

snappytom · #6 01-30-2011, 10:13 AM

I have the same situation and deal with it by manually adding/deleting songs from the iPod rather than having the sync be automatic. I have seen too many iPods get their contents removed and/or altered severely by the sync process.

To manually manage the music, connect your iPod, let iTunes finish it's initial sync, then (in iTunes) click on the iPod under "Devices". The first tab displayed should be "Summary" which has a check box to "Manually manage music and videos".
Once checked you can then use iTunes to drag and drop songs, folders, etc from iTunes to the iPod, and delete from the iPod via browsing it using iTunes. Only the items you select will be added or removed.