how does all this work exactly?

[ellixian]

1. PRETTY NEW IPOD IS HERE! :D

2. Unfortunately, I have spent the last hour or so wondering how the hell to sort out the music library because mine has always been just a total mess. A MESS. And I seem to have accidentally set the iPod to sync EVERYTHING, which means even the random songs I don't want on my iPod are being loaded. WTF. How am I going

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[lanafromoz]

I sync mine. I'm just selective of what I put on itunes, and remove stuff from my library if I don't want it there. :)

Sally doesn't sync, she just drags and drops individually.

[ellixian]

I think what confused me is that iTunes said HAI LET ME GET EVERY SONG EVER ON YOUR COMPUTER, and I let it? Since it's new, I can probably just reset the thing and be more selective with my library. I really DON'T need the Kitty demo to randomly turn up on shuffle or something. ;)

OR I could just be like Sal and manually drag and drop. This is going to take me the rest of my LIFE to figure out, LOL!!

[lanafromoz]

Ooh. What I mean is that I manually add to itunes, and it automatically syncs with the ipod itself, while Sally drags and drops indvidual songs from her library to the ipod.

So. My suggestion is to turn off things from auto-adding to itunes, select all in your library, delete (it doesn't delete files off your computer) and then add folders/albums/songs to your itunes as you like, and make THAT sync automatically to your ipod.

PS. My ipod's name is Kitty. :P Named after the character from Tipping the Velvet. Sally's is Flora, from Flora the Red Menace and you need to name yours now. :D

[ellixian]

Oh, that's what I meant - what you do makes the most sense to me? I'll just set up my library manually and sync that. I can't wait to play and fill it up with way too many Julia songs lots of awesome music crack! :)

As long as your iPod isn't named after Kitty Genovese, I'm good. ;)

I was ridiculously boring and named it after the inscription: 'sing happy'. TOO BORING? I must think about what to name it then!!

[lanafromoz]

Yeah, the only reason why Sally doesn't do it that way is that hers is smaller... I think 8gb? So when she's sitting at her computer and playing itunes on shuffle she can have more than what she can fit on the ipod. :)

TRUE.

See, to me it was like naming a pet. It needed a name name. :P

[ellixian]

8GB. OUCH. After all the downloading I've been doing this last few weeks, I'm not sure even 80GB is enough! Especially since the iPod already comes with less memory space than it's advertised to have! Is yours the 80GB too?

I shall think on a name name. :D

[lanafromoz]

Yup 80gb! But my 3668 songs on there right now only add up to 15gb. :D