Hooking up multiple I-pods to Itunes

Question

We have 2 ipods but need to use one computer to hook up to but not all at once. Is there a way to use one I-tunes and have 2 seperate accounts on it. Everytime I hook my I-pod up it want to put my wifes songs on it. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The following is form kbase article 300432. The article has links to walkthroughs on setting up your own playlists and configuring your ipod options accordingly. You can find this article here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432
How to use multiple iPods with one computer
Method One
If you share your computer with other people, the simplest way is to maintain separate user accounts on the computer for each person and his or her iPod. This is useful if everyone has different musical tastes; each person gets to maintain his or her own personalized iTunes music library, and can customize the iPod with his or her music.
Mac OS X users:
See "Mac OS X: How to Share a Computer with Other Users" to learn how to set up additional user accounts.
Windows users:
Look in your computer's Help documentation to learn how to set up additional user accounts. To locate this information, do the following:
Click the Start Menu, and then point to Help or Help and Support.
Enter new user in the Search field.
Press Return.
If you create multiple user accounts on one computer but want the same music to be available in iTunes for all users, see "iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer."
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:
First, create a new iTunes playlist for each iPod that contains all the music that you want to send to that particular iPod.
Then configure the iPod Options in iTunes so that each iPod gets updated with only your selected playlists.