Ipod Touch and Ipod Classic and iTunes

I have owned an Apple iPod Classic for a couple of years now and have a number of albums in my library (6.5GB). Today I ordered a new iPod Touch and it suddenly occurred to me that I might have problems letting both of these devices use the same iTunes program on my computer. For example, I think I want to keep all the music on my old iPod to play in my car and on my stereo, but I will want to thin down that list for the iPod Touch so that I can use the video, photo and other capabilities. Will this be a problem? If not how do I make both iPods use the same library? Thanks for any help you can give me.
garrybrown

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I do as fizgog says and just use multiple playlists (and folders of playlists) for different iPods. That way even if I have three iPods connected to the iTunes at once I can see which one is getting what content.
Here are the full details of three methods to use one iTunes library with multiple iPods:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432
regards
mrtotes

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