Multiple IPOD touches

My kids got IPod touches for xmas. I gave them my apple ID and now I realize they need to have their own ID. How do I go about getting each a apple ID on their IPODS and not erasing my apple ID?
Help please

I would consider yourself lucky and go with it. Or if you feel its wrong, report it. As for installing on multiple iPods, iTunes is programmed to believe that there is one iPod per account. When you plug a second one in, it justifies it as that same iPod since it makes the same purchases on the same account. When you try to upgrade, it most likely identifies that there was a problem with the original and lets you do it again, believing it to be the same iPod. Nice loophole. And as for apps, once you download it, just use a usb drive to transfer apps from one Profile on the computer to another, and if you need to, use the account info to verify.
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Hey EZ Jim,
Thank you so much for your responce.
You're welcome.
But, actually, that is exactly what I did. For example, I assiged the email address itouchone ... to the first one and itouchtwo ... the second and so on for all seven. Still, they are answering each others calls (usually multiples). For instance, I call itouchone... and itouchone, itouchthree, itouchfour, and itouchseven answer.
(1) If some or all of the seven emails you used are Dot Mac or Mobile Me email addresses, they may be aliases that will not work.
Info about dot Mac or Mobile me addresses:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2623
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2857
(2) If the seven emails you used are literally those you posted, perhaps creating more and using each as a separate iD rather than merely caller iDs associated with only one iD could get FaceTime working.
I would start with only two iPods. Once you can make two work, you can replicate the solution five more times.
(3) Did you consider all relevant info in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4319
I am totally confused. Could it be that facetime is sending out both the primary ID and the associated id? Help!!!
Thanks again,
DAVE
You will need to seek professional help for your confusion, Dave.
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Sorry for the exceedingly long title...
I have multiple iPod touches, and I just updated one of them to the newest iOS (5.0.1). Now whenever I plug in any of the others, the name of the one I updated appears in Windows explorer. How can I make Windows able to determine which iPod is which again?
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iPod Classic are high drain USB devices, I hope you are not trying to connnect them simultaneously to iTunes, which will definitely hang your USB Host controller, thereby freeze iTunes.
But here is an Apple Support Article on using multiple iPods for iTunes.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495?viewlocale=en_US
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You need to make sure the DHCP range is wide enough for all the devices you are running. I can think of nothing that would prevent you from running as many as you want at one time. Go to an Apple store - they probably have 50+ iPhones and touches on line at any given moment.
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My wife and I both have the iPod Touch. She syncs hers on her computer, I sync mine on my computer... If I want to transfer an .mp3 or .mp4 video from my device to hers what's the best way to do that?
I tried to plug hers into my computer and iTunes opened but iTunes will not let me drag and drop music or videos (not even .mp3s) into her iPod Touch and she can not transfer anything into mine.
What is the work around to this? Why is this so?

*Apple doesn't allow you to sync multiple iPods*
Sure they do.
Plug it in and it will sync. Plug in another and it will sync.
iTunes does not sync from the iPod to the computer (except for iTunes purchases).
If I want to transfer an .mp3 or .mp4 video from my device to hers what's the best way to do that?
You can't go iPod to iPod.
Copy the music from her computer to your computer.
Or set your iPod to Manually manage music, plug into her computer and drag the music to your iPod.
I am unable to manage the other iPod.
You don't need to do it on both and you cannot go iPod to computer.
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I am so incredibly disappointed in Apple!! I have owned my Touch for less than a week and have already been given two replacement units - neither of which have worked. I have visited three Apple stores, worked with 4 different techs and had two long telephone contacts with tech support. Yet, I still am unable to get a Touch that actually works!
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I purchased the current software for my ipod touch. Can I also install it on another ipod touch for a family member who has a different itunes account?

It isn't piracy. Apple allows everything bought under 1 account to be used on multiple devices.
Erm, you apparently missed the second sentence of the original posters query:
+"Can I also install it on another ipod touch for a family member who has a different itunes account? "+
Apple allows you to install iTunes purchases on as many Apple devices *as you own*. The OP already made it clear the second iPod touch doesn't belong to him.
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My son was the first to get an iPod Touch and he set up his iMessage.
Now my daugther has an iPod Touch, but we aren't sure how to set up iMessage so she doesn't get her brother's messages/chat... and can set up her own.
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You have to use seperate Apple IDs to use iMessage.
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iOS: Using Messages
Toubleshooting iMessage:
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Toubleshooting Activiation:
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