Auto-Sync Music, Manual-Sync Videos?

Is there any way to put Music playlists on auto-sync, but still have Videos on manual?
I really would like to be able to copy movies and TV shows to the iPod, and then back them up onto DVDs, so they don't take up precious space on my hard drive.
But sync-ing music playlists is convenient.
Podcasts can be managed separately; why not videoes? Or am I missing something?

Once you set your music to Auto-sync, you should have the option to either Auto-sync, or to manually sync the videos. The one confusing part of this is that if music is set to manual, videos are forced to be synced manually...
Let me know,
Matthew

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Is it possible to automatically sync just my music, and still be able to add videos manually? I'd like to leave videos on my iPod but delete them from my computer to save space, without having to deal with the hassle of manually updating music.

i'm no great expert on the topic. but the following document suggests that you can manually sync both or neither, but not one and not the other:
Syncing videos to your iPod

Manually sync videos but auto sync music?

Anyone know how to do this? When I uncheck the "sync videos" command on ipod preferences, it erases all my videos from my ipod and won't let me manually drag the ones I want onto it.
If I check the "manually manage music and videos" button, it also unsyncs my music, and when I try to click the "sync music" button, it deletes all my manually added videos...
Any ideas? Videos take up lots of space on my comp, so I would like to put them on my ipod and delete them from itunes so they use up less space, but I would like my music to continue automatically updating...all help appreciated!
Thanks!

I'm sorry, I guess I didn't fully understand your sync/delete method for videos. I'm not sure I know of a way to work around this dilemma short of manually updating your iPod.
If you have to resort to manually managing your files, you could resort to the "playlist" update option:
Try creating playlist(s) and syncing only those playlists.
Select the iPod in iTunes. Click the Music tab.
Tick Sync music and Selected playlists.
Tick the playlists you want on the iPod.
Then just Add/Delete from those playlists and plug in the iPod.
When you add a video and delete it from your library things won't get erased this way.

Manually Sync TV Shows, but Auto Sync Music

Hey is there way to manually control what TV shows sync with your iphone, but have it so it autosyncs your music? Right now, I have my iphone set so that it auto-syncs certain playlists (including recently added, etc.) so that I don't have to really worry about music. But since there is obviously limited room for videos, is there any way to control what TV shows go on? Its really annoying how itunes auto sets it for you.
Thanks

Thanks for the response. If you read my title, I wanted to know how to make it so it automatically sycnes music, but so that I can manually put my TV shows on. Its annoying having to keep track of which music tracks I haven't updated yet on my iphone, I'd rather do it automatically for music. But for TV shows, since I can only put on 1 or episodes at most, I'd like control over which ones I can. Is this not feasible?

How can I manually update videos while all else is on auto-sync?

Please forgive me for asking this again, but I need to free some much needed HD space on my MacBook Pro, so I want to get rid of the videos in iTunes without deleting them from my iPod, normally done via the manual update setting. But I do like the auto-sync of everything else (music, photos, etc.).
Can this be done?
Thanks for helping!

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Is there a way to auto sync playlists while manually managing your music?

I used to use WMP11 before I bought an iPod and used iTunes, and in that I was able to auto sync playlists to my Samsung dap, as well as being able to manually drag tracks/albums to it.
Since using iTunes, I have found it is not as accessible in this regard. Of course, you can opt to manually manage your music, but if you do this, it does not auto sync any info. This means that if I drag a playlist to my iPod and alter it at a later stage by adding more tracks, it won't alter it on the iPod unless I manually replace it with the amended one. It also means that any ratings that I set on my iPod do NOT get transfered to the tracks in iTunes when connected.
What I have done is set a playlist called 'iPod Tracks' in iTunes, and have dragged any extra albums to my iPod using that, as well as the smart playlist 'Top Tracks'. But the disadvantage of this is, if I drag a few songs from an album into my 'iPod Tracks' playlist, then later decide I want the whole album and drag that over, I end up with two of the same tracks in the playlist, which makes it look very untidy (although I am aware only one of each track will be on the iPod) so it is not ideal.
Surely there must be a way to auto sync playlists so that when you amend them in iTunes it does so on the iPod too, as well as manually drag over any extra tracks/albums you want without having a messy playlist work-around like I have done.
Any help/ideas?
Thanks in advance.

There is no way to sync content back to itunes. As you are aware there are a couple of unsupported ways to recover your content, you will need to decide if your content is valuable enough to go down this route.
If so and you are not comfortable with the procedures, I suggest taking the unit to a data recovery specialist with mac experience.

Hi at the moment my ipod is on manual sync mode. Is there any way of changing this to auto-sync without losing the music on my ipod or library? Possibly more importantly is there a way I can transfer the ratings from my ipod onto my i-tunes?

Hi at the moment my ipod is on manual sync mode. Is there any way of changing this to auto-sync without losing the music on my ipod or library? Possibly more importantly is there a way I can transfer the ratings from my ipod onto my i-tunes?
This is so I can delete music from my ipod knowing its rated on my i-tunes so I can then see later if I want to re-add it based on its rating
Thanks

Is there any way of changing this to auto-sync without losing the music on my ipod or library?
Unfortunately there is not.
Possibly more importantly is there a way I can transfer the ratings from my ipod onto my i-tunes?
Not without the help of third party software such as this one:
http://www.copytrans.net/copytrans.php
B-rock

Auto sync is not working. How can I manually transfer music from my macbook pro iTunes to iphone 5?

Auto sync is not working. How can I manually transfer music from my macbook pro iTunes to iphone 5? My iMatch is turned on and I can direct downlad my music to the iPhone from the Cloud; however, I want to direct import All of my music from iTunes to my iPhone 5 via the connecting USB cable and it is not working. Yes, I have tried restarting both devices, and no autosync is not working nor is is it providing the avaialbile option to select music in iTunes on my Mac to then sync. Please help. Thanks

Please disregard. I figured it out. Answer for anyone else running into this problem: You have to turn off iTunes Match on both devices. Apparently, if you activate iTunes Match it deactivates your abiltiy to direct sync.

I have searched for solutions to the error 13019, but everyone with the problem doe'st manually manage their music like I do. I really don't want to have to sync and gothrough that mess. Help? solution for manually managing videos and music!!

I have searched for solutions to the error 13019, but everyone with the problem doesn't manually manage their music like I do. I really don't want to have to sync and go through that mess. Please Help! solution for manually managing videos and music!!

- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store and hear what they hae to say. It is free.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
you can turn on Assistive Touch it adds the Power and other buttons to the iPods screen. Settings>General>Accessibility>Assistive Touch

Manually Sync movies/tv shows and auto sync music

Is there a way to manually manage my movies and tv-shows but maintain auto-sync with my music? I have the box unchecked on movies and tv shows and it won't let me drag and drop any movies onto my ipod.

Yeah, I attempted that, too, because there are only some TV shows I want to watch, and it seems to avoid them regardless of what option I choose.
I tried to mix it up, but it just disabled the "manually manage", so I just use the "sync only checked" options and uncheck the things I don't want the iPod to sync.

Auto-sync just music

Is it possible to auto-sync just your music, but not your videos. I still want the videos on my iPod, I just want to manually manage them.

"go to movies/videos and un-tick 'sync movies'. done"
Ok, I'm ever willing to learn.
Now that you've removed the check mark from "sync movies" (sic), and the iPod is still set to auto sync music, how do you then go about manually managing the videos?

I have an older IPOD that I'm having trouble getting new purchases on to my IPOD. I use to have a source list on the left hand side of screen where I dragged my purchases to and they downloaded. Can't find place to check manual vs. auto sync.

I have an older IPOD classic that I'm having trouble getting new purchases from library to IPOD. I use to have a IPOD icon in the source list on the left side of the screen. Now that is all gone. My purchases are coming up as recently purchased but can't figure out how to get them transferred to IPOD. I also can't find how to confirm setting is for manual not auto sync as the first computer I had blew up and am now using a different one. I haven't had any of these problems prior to the updates.

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HT1535 Up til about 3 weeks ago songs from my Library would auto sync to my iphone 4 , now it no longer works? Have tried syncing manually etc

Up til about 3 weeks ago songs from my Library would auto sync to my iphone 4, now music I add to my library will not sync to my phone. I have tried this manually with no luck and even tried deleting Quicktime as suggested by another site but no luck. Please help?

Thank you for your reply,
I checked the songs, they work. The computer was authorized.
Here is another interesting thing, I went to my old computer, and everything syncs (but the library on that comp is old).
I just don't understand why the music won't transfer (because all the other info transfers just fine)
In the phone menu I have everything checked off properly such as (sync all music and playlists).
Hmm. Any other suggestions?

"Manually Manage Videos" & "Sync Tones" at the same time?

So, I wan't to sync my ring and text tones manually to my iPad from iTunes as I have some tones that I did not buy from iTunes. I also want to "manually manage videos" synced to my iPad. However, it seems that iTunes will NOT let me choose both at the same time. Am I missing something? Why can't you do both at the same time? Are tones considered video (they have a .m4r extension)?
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While I appreciate the link, it doesn't exactly explain why you can't automatically sync Tones while manually managing videos. When you connect an iOS device (that also has iTunes Match enabled) to iTunes 11, the "Manually Manage..." checkbox does not say music as well. It only allows you to "Manually Manage Video", since music is syncing over the cloud via iTunes Match. Thusly, this link does not take into account iTunes Match.
For whatever reason, iTunes must see Tones as part of video, I guess.
But thanks anyways.
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Auto sync iPod on one computer, manually manage on other?

I would like to be able to auto-sync my playlists to my iPod on one computer, but manually manage them on another.
I have my iPod set to auto-update with my music library at home, but when I use it on my G5 at work, all my songs are grayed out and I can't play them. I don't have any songs on the work computer itself; I just want to be able to use iTunes to play what's on my iPod.
It seems that the preference to auto vs manual update is for the iPod itself, not for iTunes on each computer.
Is there any way short of changing the preferences each time to do what I want to do? Am I missing something totally obvious?
Cheers!
Katy

It may be that both systems think they "own" your iPod. I don't know if this will help, but give this a try:
First, make sure that your home system is set to auto-sync and that it's synchronizing to your iPod correctly.
Then, on your work system:
1) locate the iTunes Library file (it normally will be in your users Home -> Music -> iTunes folder) and delete the folder.
2) While connecting the iPod to the computer, hold down the Command and Option keys. This should stop the iPod from auto synching with iTunes and the iPod will appear in the source list. Wait until you are sure the iPod has mounted, and that it will not auto sync and then you can let the keys go. This may take between 3 and 25 seconds depending on your computer.
3) Set the iPod preferences to manual synchronization. You should then, of course, be able to play tracks from your iPod.
Take the iPod home and connect it to your home system. If luck holds, it will then not switch it to manual.
Again, I don't know if this will help, but it's worth a try. Let us know if it works.
Good luck.

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