ITunes - Connecting more than 1 IPod Video

Question

If there are 2 IPod videos owned - a 30gb and 80gb, how can you prevent Ipod 30gb from updating with all the material in the ITunes Library Downloaded / Imported for IPod 80gb and vice versa? the owners have different music tastes and don't want the others music on their own IPod.

Answer 1

Hi Trekker,
You can set preferences in iTunes to synchronise your iPods manually rather than automatically:
To set iTunes to let you manage music and video on iPod manually:
1 In iTunes, select iPod in the Source pane and click the Summary tab.
2 In the Options section, select “Manually manage music and video.”
3 Click Apply.
Note: When you manage songs and video yourself, you must always eject iPod from
iTunes before you disconnect it.
To add a song, video, or other item to iPod:
1 In the iTunes Source pane, click Music or another Library item.
2 Drag a song or other item to the iPod icon in the Source pane.
To remove a song, video, or other item from iPod:
1 In iTunes, select iPod in the Source pane.
2 Select a song or other item on iPod and press the Delete or Backspace key on your
keyboard.
If you manually remove a song or other item from iPod, it is not deleted from your
iTunes library.
To make a new playlist on iPod:
1 In iTunes, select iPod in the Source pane, and then click the Add button or choose
File > New Playlist.
2 Type a name for the playlist.
3 Click an item, such as Music, in the Library list, and then drag songs or other items to
the playlist.
To add songs to or remove songs from a playlist on iPod:
m Drag a song to a playlist on iPod to add the song. Select a song in a playlist and press the Delete key on your keyboard to delete the song.
I copied that from the manual - hope that helps!
PC   Windows XP