Ipod and syncing on more than one computer?

[skinner05]

Got my mum an ipod for christmas and to try and save a little time when importing cd's on to itunes, i have downloaded itunes on to her pc and my laptop. So i can be doing 2 cd's a once. However, when i go to sync the library with the ipod on my laptop, it wont let me do it without deleting songs that have been put on from the other pc as it says ipod's can only be sync'd with one computer at a time. Is there anyway around this?

[bkay88]

You can only sync an iPod to one copy of iTunes.

To save time when ripping my CD collection, I imported CDs onto 2 PCs at once.

I then copied the MP3 files from the second machine onto a USB stick, then imported them into iTunes on the first PC.

[skinner05]

bkay88 said:

You can only sync an iPod to one copy of iTunes.

To save time when ripping my CD collection, I imported CDs onto 2 PCs at once.

I then copied the MP3 files from the second machine onto a USB stick, then imported them into iTunes on the first PC.

cheers, i'll do that then.

[skinner05]

Another problem. When i transfer the songs from my laptop via usb stick to pc, itunes cant find the music once i have removed the usb stick and i have to locate each track one by one for it to be able to recognise them. Dont understand why as they are in the same location as the rest, (my music,itunes,itunes music,album name)

???

[Alfa_75_Steve]

skinner05 said:

Another problem. When i transfer the songs from my laptop via usb stick to pc, itunes cant find the music once i have removed the usb stick and i have to locate each track one by one for it to be able to recognise them. Dont understand why as they are in the same location as the rest, (my music,itunes,itunes music,album name)

???

Are you copying the tracks into the iTunes folder manually, or dragging and dropping onto the iTunes window?

If the former, then iTunes won't know about it. If the latter, check your preferences to ensure that when you're adding songs to your iTunes library that it's also copying them to your iTunes folder.

[raf_gti]

I thought you could sync on more than one PC at a time if you only copied one playlist across? I'm pretty sure I've done that in the past.

[Kinky]

I thought you could sync up to 5 different machines - which you can flag via the Store menu - Authorise/Deauthorise.

Check the help and see what it says about those options.

K