Two iPods, one music collection. Possible?

[Rose Chap]

Seasons greetings all.

Rose Chick got an iPod for Christmas (80gb video - tasty). I already have an iPod and sync it from my PC. My iTunes music library is located on a network share on my NAS device.

If I was to set up iTunes on her PC and make its music library my music library (on the network share), would that work? Or would it overwrite my configuration files and bugger up my iPod?

 

[masqueraid]

iPods all have a unique identity so you can configure your iTunes software to handle each of them differently. You will end up with configuration files on your NAS for each player you attach.

This article is for Macs but the principle is the same.

 

[whizzkid11]

Yep - as Masqueride says - iPODS have individual/Unique coded IDs, and each has its own library as selected.

With 80Gb available - you could put your entire songs database on it and leave it there forever... it would take her a few years to listen to them all.

I have about 7 dvd movies, about 9 family (wedding) movies, lots of pics, and several 100's of songs - it takes up just 20Gb out of the 60Gb available. And when do I get to hear them all... prob when I am a pensioner!

 

[Rose Chap]

Thanks for all the tips. She's determined to set it up on her own so she understands how it works. Which she still hasn't done yet. Grrrr.

Still, I've set up iTunes on her laptop to talk to the network share and both her iTunes and mine pointing at the same share seem to be working fine which is good.

Agree about the iPod size thing too. Mine is 'only' 30GB and I'm still nowhere near full. Since she'll be synching essentially the same stuff she's going to have a lot of spare capacity on that little iPod.

 

[SL300-24]

Sorry to hijack the post, but is it possible to do this:
Music currently on Desktop PC---load onto iPod (nano)------Load iTunes onto new laptop----Load music from iPod onto new laptop?
I want to duplicate my (large) music collection onto my new laptop from my desktop.....what is the fastest way of doing this please?

 

[Spin_bowler]

I did this using a USB hard drive which did 7K tracks in a matter of minutes (quite a few minutes iirc ;-)). Just be careful with purchased tracks with licences.

 

[whizzkid11]

Sorry to hijack the post, but is it possible to do this:
Music currently on Desktop PC---load onto iPod (nano)------Load iTunes onto new laptop----Load music from iPod onto new laptop?
I want to duplicate my (large) music collection onto my new laptop from my desktop.....what is the fastest way of doing this please?

Easiest way is to copy - it onto the iPOD but NOT through Itunes, but through windows explorer instead - using the iPOD as a hard drive - then once transferred onto the laptop - you can install iTUNES on it and then load up the ipod through iTUNES.

iTUNES stores everything in a coded format in the iPOD, and therefore it will only sync up with the dedicated/configured version of iTUNES.

 

[Robbo]

Agree about the iPod size thing too. Mine is 'only' 30GB and I'm still nowhere near full. Since she'll be synching essentially the same stuff she's going to have a lot of spare capacity on that little iPod.

Depends what compression you use, I have used up about 50gb of mine loading my entire CD collection (420CDs) at 320kBps. And yes, with good quality earphones (in my case Etymotic ER4-P) you can tell the difference between 320 kBps and lower bit rates.