4.5 upgrade and manual music update questions...please help
Hi all,
Okay I have two questions for you.
1) I just updated my laptop to 4.5 iTunes. I had the earlier version set for manual music updates since I do not store my music on my hard drive (I keep a library of mp3's burnt to CD). I am concerned that when I plug the iPod in for the first time, the upgraded version will have defaulted to the factory default settings of automatically updateing and will erase the 30 some gigs of music I have on the iPod. So...how do I tell if iTunes is set to only manually update without plugging my iPod in first??? I can't find where in iTunes I can check this preference without the iPod being plugged in...
2) the first question leads to the second and is basically the same. I want to install iTunes on an old tower I have that has a few gigs of music on it. Again, my concern is that since iTunes is default set to automatically update, it will erase the music I have on the iPod on first plugging in. Again, how do I set iTunes to manual update without plugging in the iPod?
Thanks in advance for your help.
# 1 Re: 4.5 upgrade and manual music update questions...please help
I don't think that's possible with iTunes. If your using Windows, you should not download iTunes first since you have music on your iPod. Delete iTunes and use 3rd party software like either iPodagent-it's free or Anapod-it's not free. You will be able to transfer your music to your computer and save it first. Then you can download iTunes and transfer the music to it. This way when you hook your iPod up to the computer it will sync with iTunes and your music will be there.
The iPod auto syncs with iTunes and theres no way I know of to stop it when your iPod is set to auto sync. It won't auto sync with iTunes when the pod is set to manual.
iTunes can not be set to manual update that I know of. You must set the iPod to manual update. If you haven't dl iTunes then don't. DL the iPodagent or the like and transfer the music to your computer that way. Then you can dl iTunes and transfer the music to iTunes before you sync your iPod. If you keep you iPod on manual sync you won't have this problem.
# 2 Re: 4.5 upgrade and manual music update questions...please help
You did say what computer you are using and you should, but the Mac is different. ITunes will give you an option before it auto syncs your iPod. You don't have this option using Windows.
# 3 Re: 4.5 upgrade and manual music update questions...please help
I am using a win 2000 machine.
So here is an issue, I don't think that tower has enough free HD space to download all my music from the ipod (about 30 gigs) to the tower using something like iPodagent prior to using iTunes.
So you are saying unless I can do this, I will loose the music on t he ipod when I first connect it to a new machine with a new copy of iTunes on it? This seems like a real piece of poor engineering if that is true...
