New User!!! 2 iPods, one computer HELP
I am new to the iPod. I bought one for each of my kids. They both want different songs on their iPods. How do I create two different accounts on iTunes? Please help me!
actually creating 2 different accounts isn't necessary unless you want them to purchase their own music with their own money. not sure if that was the case, so I'll go with the easier method:
open iTunes, click on My Library (left hand side of the screen), select Edit>Preferences>click the iPod tab on top & select "Manually update songs" & click OK.
so now, when they want to put tracks on their iPods, they just connect the cable, go to the library and drag which songs they want onto the iPod icon on the left hand side (under the My Library icon). if they buy from iTunes, the tracks they purchase will be automatically put into the library.
the reason for all of this is that if iTunes automatically updated both iPods, all songs that are in the library would be sent to the iPod, and they would have to weed out the ones they don't want. hopefully this should make it easier than managing 2 separate accounts.
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