iPod touch Can I get songs off my friends itunes without deleting all my songs?

[andyACEcandy]

I am doing manual sync but it still says it will delete my songs and replace them with his....


I just want to get a couple songs off his itunes without deleting any of mine

Possible?

 

[mr.light]

I do not think you can do it. Why not have your friend burn a copy for you? Then you can add it to your itunes.

 

[Ivan P]

It is possible, I have my Touch set to manually manage music, and I connect it to three different computers without it trying to delete anything.

 

[andyACEcandy]

hmmmmmmm wonder what my problem is then

all the research ive done says its not possible

 

[Ivan P]

Are you sure you're not confusing it with Enable Disk Use? Because that is definitely not possible on the Touch.

 

[sushi]

It is possible, I have my Touch set to manually manage music, and I connect it to three different computers without it trying to delete anything.

Do you sync manually with those three computers?

 

[Ivan P]

Do you sync manually with those three computers?

Indeed I do. On my first touch I initially auto-synced it, but then changed it to sync manually on my home PC. After that I was able to connect it to both my sister's laptop as well as a computer at work with no problems, all my content stayed on the iPod and I could add whatever I wanted. Same circumstances with my second touch (which Apple gave as a replacement for the first). Connected it, hit "manually manage my music" and haven't had any problems connecting to different computers.

 

[sushi]

Indeed I do. On my first touch I initially auto-synced it, but then changed it to sync manually on my home PC. After that I was able to connect it to both my sister's laptop as well as a computer at work with no problems, all my content stayed on the iPod and I could add whatever I wanted. Same circumstances with my second touch (which Apple gave as a replacement for the first). Connected it, hit "manually manage my music" and haven't had any problems connecting to different computers.

Interesting.

So if you have movies; A, B, C and D, where A & B are on the Mac and C & D are on the PC, you can sync both the Mac and PC so that A, B, C and D are on the Touch while still maintaining A & B on the Mac and C & D on the PC?

If so, how do you manage the settings under movies.

How about contacts, calendars, and pictures. Have you tried this?

 

[andyACEcandy]

I did it!

just dont press sync

hook up your ipod to computer A, and click and drag the stuff you want onto your ipod on itunes.

Then go to computer B and do the same thing

nothing gets deleted

technically, you are not syncing... you're just taking his files and dragging it onto ur ipod


wooooo!