A ipod question?

Question

you know how itunes deletes songs that aren't in your itunes library? how do you change that so that you just add songs to your ipod but previous songs that were added won't be deleted?

Answer 1

Not sure if I understand the question correctly, but this is how the iPod download works. iPod will downlod songs from the iTunes library. THIS ALWAYS ERASES SONGS THAT ARE NOT ON THE NEW DOWNLOAD.

To avoid losing songs you want to keep on iPod, you need to create a songlist - call it "my iPod Songs." You can tell iPod to download that songlist by putting a checkmark by that name ("my iPod Songs,") on the iPod download options (click on the second tab: "music")
The songs you want to keeep should remain on that list, everything else will be deleted and replaced by the new songs.

You do have to make sure that the total space taken up by the songs on this list is less than the space on your iPod (memory size of iPod, minus "overhead") iPod download screen will warn you if there are too many songs. Delete some, and try again. Keep trying until the warning goes away.

NOTE (nobody tells you this:) You can get the most songs packed into your iPod, by using AAC compression/encoding (rather than mp3) on iTunes.