Setting Up More than One iPod on Your iTunes

Do you know anyone who does not own an iPod? I didn’t think so. It seems like everyone from your mother and father down to your kid brother now has one. All of these iPods in one home sharing the same computer can make life a little hectic when it comes to managing each individual iTunes.

The problem for many families is that it can be somewhat confusing to handle multiple iPods on one computer. It can be even more difficult to manage if each iPod owner has different tastes of music. If you’re not careful, you just may end up with every song from the library or worse yet an iTunes filled with all of mom’s country music songs.

The solution is simple and quick to accomplish. Use iTunes to your advantage. It can easily tell the difference between multiple iPods and manage settings for all of them for you. iTunes can be set to update each iPod with only certain playlists. Here is how you can do this.

• Each time you set up a new iPod on your iTunes, you are going to need to give it a unique name. More than likely, you would do this anyway but it is still an important step not to forget about.
• Ok now that you have set up a name for the first iPod of the group select the “manually manage music” option and make sure it is checked. Doing so prevents ITunes from adding every single song in the library on to the iPod.
• Set up a playlist for each individual iPod. Make sure each playlist has its own name that is clear to anyone who will be using the iTunes library. Naming the playlist after the person who owns the iPod seems to be the most common thing to do. Right click on the playlist and hit rename to give it a name.
• Once, you are done creating distinct playlists, start creating song libraries for each one by dragging over songs you want to add. Whenever new songs are added to the iTunes library, be sure you add them to the appropriate playlist.
• You’re more than halfway there. Everything else is pretty easy. Now, you’ll need to update all of the sync settings for each iPod. This is done by going to the “music” tab of the iPod window when the iPod is plugged into the iTunes and choosing the button “selected playlists”. You’ll need to do this for each iPod. If you’ve created a certain playlist, select that one to sync only that music to his iPod whenever it is connected.
• Once you’re done setting up all the sync setting, the only thing you need to do is apply those setting to each iPod. You’re pretty much completed with the entire process. Head back to the main page of the iTunes library and uncheck the manually manage music box. Each iPod will now be automatically synced to its corresponding playlist every time it’s connected.

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