A 2nd ipod??

Question

My son wants to get his own ipod. We only have one computer and one itunes account. I'm not sure how to set his ipod up with only his music on it? Can this be done? And How?

Answer 1

Holli:
Welcome to the discussions.
There is no problem in attaching multiple iPods to a single computer. There are several ways to do this.
Method One
Create a new user account for each iPod owner, and move the iTunes Music folder into the Public folder. Here are the steps:
* Quit iTunes.
* Locate your iTunes Music Folder. It is stored by default:
b ~/Music/iTunes or ~/Documents/iTunes/.
These folders cannot be accessed by other accounts on the computer. In order for other users to be able to access your music, you must move it to a publicly accessible location. The Public folder in your home directory (~/Public), or to another folder outside your home directory that other users have access to, such as /Users/Shared or an external hard drive. Tip: The tilde "~" refers to your home folder.
* Drag the iTunes Music Folder to a publicly accessible location. Important: Do not move the iTunes folder, the iTunes Library file or the iTunes Library.xml file.
* Open iTunes.
* From the iTunes menu, choose Preferences.
* Click Advanced.
* Click the Change button.
* Navigate in the Change Music Folder Location dialog to the location of your iTunes Music folder.
* Click Choose.
Method Two
If one person wants to use multiple iPods on a computer, or you don't want to create multiple user accounts to support multiple iPods, you can set iTunes to update each iPod with only certain playlists. This way, you can put all your music on, say, your iPod photo and keep just your workout music on your iPod mini. Here's how to do this:
1. First, create a new iTunes playlist for each iPod that contains all the music that you want to send to that particular iPod.
2. Then configure the iPod Options in iTunes so that each iPod gets updated with only your selected playlists.
Method Three
*Connect your iPod to your Mac and launch iTunes (if it isn't already opened)
*Open iTunes Preferences and select iPod.
*Change the updating preferences from automatic to manual.
*Close iTunes Preferences
*Dismount and disconnect your iPod
*Connect your son's iPod to the Mac
*After it mounts, you can drag and drop songs and playlists from the source menu onto the iPod icon in the source menu (NOT THE DESKTOP).
*When the update is complete, dismount and disconnect your son's iPod.
*Reconnect YOUR iPod and switch the preferences back to automatic updating.
*Repeat whenever your son needs to update his iPod.
*To remove songs from a manually updated iPod, you need to remove them from the iPod's Library (just as if you were deleting them from iTunes itself).
Hope this helps.
Lita