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What happens when iPod is full?

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The Shadow

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I've had a 10 GB iPod for about 8 months, god love it. I'm in the habit of only copying my favourite songs into iTunes and I'm pretty fussy so I haven't quite filled up the podster just yet.

But I accumulate music very quickly, and I would like to know what happens when there is more music in iTunes than will fit into the iPod? Do you set up some sort of preferences? 😕

My thanks to anyone who replies.
 
It simply says "there is not enough space on the disk for all the songs you have selected" and copies what will fit. After that, nadda. My 5GB is packed FULL.

Oh, yeah-- if you want to free up space, you just delete songs from the iPod's library listing. Then you can drag songs you want instead from the iTunes library to the iPod icon on the left.
 
Originally posted by pseudobrit
Oh, yeah-- if you want to free up space, you just delete songs from the iPod's library listing. Then you can drag songs you want instead from the iTunes library to the iPod icon on the left.
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So would you turn off the auto sync, delete all the files off the iPod, then create a large new playlist (you might add to from time to time) and drag this onto the iPod?

Originally posted by Wardofsky
You get a new one....
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What the...?
 
Originally posted by The Shadow
So would you turn off the auto sync, delete all the files off the iPod, then create a large new playlist (you might add to from time to time) and drag this onto the iPod?



What the...?
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Go into iTune's preferences and turn off auto updating and then either tell it to sync certain playlists or to manually control songs.

If you manually control songs you just mount your iPod and then drag songs from your library to the you iPod in the source list (down the left side of iTunes).

I hope that helps.

And for the record, everytime I filled mine up I did buy a bigger one lol!

1899 songs and counting!

MacboyX
 
Thanks all.

Not sure I like it though. Such an obvious problem. You would think you could set up preferences so ony a designated playlist, such as all songs rate 4 or more would sink.

Ah well, some of us are hard to please.
 
the best idea would not be deleating any songs. Just go through your library and uncheck the songs you really dont want on there. You can uncheck them on the far left side of the library and the boxes should be blue (or graphite if you have the grahpite aqua enabled) and checked. Unchecking thr boxes mwill prevent them from being automatically used (put onto your ipod or automatically played during regular itunes usage), but the songs can still be played manually and are never deleated.


But, unchecking songs that are already on the ipod removes them from the ipod upon updating, so be sure you dont want it on there.
 
Originally posted by The Shadow
You would think you could set up preferences so ony a designated playlist, such as all songs rate 4 or more would sink.
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Actually, I think you can set the preferences so it will sync only certain playlists.

Haven't tried it myself, though.
 
I do it all manually, there are simply some albums I don't need on my ipod and it's not really a big deal to drag and drop the songs/albums you want on it....
 
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