IPOD question?

Question

When I connect my Ipod to ITUNES to transfer new music, I Tunes is taking the songs out of the IPOD that are already on it. How do I stop this from happening because I don't want the songs to be taken out of the IPOD. It's just automatically happening, what can I do to stop this?

Answer 1

hi mike! u can do this by setting the "manage music and videos manually" option. once u have this option set, u control what songs are copied to ur ipod by manually dragging them from ur library to ur ipod. here's how u set the option:

1. start itunes and plug ur ipod into ur computer.

2. when u plug ur ipod into ur computer, itunes displays a screen - on the Summary tab of this screen, check the box next to "manage music and videos manually".

now manually copy songs from ur itunes library to ur ipod:

3. on the left side of itunes where ur ipod shows up in the list, click the arrow just to left of ur ipod name. the arrow will then turn into a down arrow and display a list beneath ur ipod (take note of the "Music" item in the list).

4. now, again on the left side of the itunes window, click into ur itunes music library so all of ur songs show up in the right-side of the itunes window.

5. finally, select and drag the songs u want to copy to ur ipod and drop into the "Music" item in this list below ur ipod on the left side of the itunes window!

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Answer 2

If your iPod is synced to one library, and you try to connect it to a different iTunes library, then iTunes will delete the songs already on the iPod to stop people from using iPods to mass copy songs between computers or copying each other's songs to their own iPods etcetera. This is in the license you agreed to when installing the software and any attempt to change this deliberate functionality is breaking the law. If you're getting this problem even though you're only using one library, contact Apple as there may be a problem with your unit.

Hope that helps,
Simon H

Answer 3

Open up iTunes and on the left there is something called a source list at the very left. It should have things like "Music, Movies, T.V. shows, iTunes store" click on iPod. There should be something like "Manually manage music" check this. then whenever you open up iTunes you can manually update your iPod when you want to.

Answer 4

Go to your itunes and plug in your chord into your computer and use your mouse and click your songs one by one and drag it into ur icon that had your iPod showing. Then it should work because that had happened to my iPod as well. Good luck.

Answer 5

Is the original song file in iTunes?

Answer 6

You go to file, click on 'administrator ipod' (or something like that) and there's a box you can check to 'update ipod manually'. this allows you to do w/e u want to ur ipod

Answer 7

try adjusting the settings. when it pops up as "summary" try and click it to a different tab and see maybe if you chose to do your music manually or let itunes do it for you. because if you didnt chose to do it manually, that could be why its doing that.

Answer 8

There's a synchronise option somewhere in iTunes. Uncheck it.

Answer 9

your setting on itunes are on automatic syncronize...just turn it into manual synchronize