Music on one computer, applications on another. Possible?

I just got a new iPod Touch
Here's my problem.
My main computer is a MacBook, which has all my contacts, calenders, etc. It has a 160GB hard drive. I also have an iMac with a 250GB hard drive. I would like to have all my music on my iMac, but everything else on my MacBook. Can I use my iPod in this way? With my music library coming from one computer, and everything else coming from another?
Thanks!

i think you will need to manage your iPod manually to do that, but i think it's possible.

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Music on one computer, photos on another

Hi folks,
I have an iMac in my living room that I use solely to store my music and play it through iTunes. I also have a PowerBook that I use for everything else, including managing photos in iPhoto and contacts in Address Book.
I would like my iPod to automatically sync its music when I plug it into the iMac, and to automatically sync everything else when I plug it into the PowerBook. Can this be done?
With automatic syncing, I would expect to lose my music whenever I plug into the PowerBook, and to lose everything else whenever I plug into the iMac. I realize I could use manual syncing to prevent losing my music. However, I add a lot of new playlists each week for a class I teach and it's too easy to forget to add those to the iPod (especially since I can't select more than one at a time); and I don't see a manual sync option for photos or contacts.
The only options I can think of are: 1) removing iTunes from the PowerBook and removing iPhoto and Address Book from the iMac, so that those applications won't be able to sync (and overwrite my data) from those machines, or 2) manually copying my photo and contact data from the PowerBook directly to the iMac each time I want to sync, and then auto-syncing all data with the iMac.
Is anyone else in this situation, and do you have a more elegant solution?
(I've read the knowledge base articles about multiple ipods/multiple computers, and have searched the forums and Google, but I haven't found anything that describes my situation.)
Thanks!
-Arlo
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Well, the fiirst option wasn't working because nothing will sync unless iTunes is running. Since iTunes no longer warns you before it starts syncing, when you move your iPod to a different computer, that means any kind of auto-syncing of my music was not an option.
I also got an error message each time I synced with my iMac after removing iPhoto from it (could not find a compatible photo program), which was already getting annoying. Removing Address Book from the iMac did allow me to sync contacts with the PowerBook and not lose them when syncing to the iMac.
Still, this was only 1/3 of what I was trying to accomplish, and I was getting the feeling that I was just fighting against the way this was supposed to work. So I switched to the second option.
This isn't too bad with the help of Sync Pro X, which I already have installed on my PowerBook for daily backups. What I'm doing now is that whenever I update my photos or contacts on the PowerBook, I run a Sync Pro X script that connects to my iMac and copies my changes in those two programs. Then I can do a full, automatic sync of my iPod to my iMac. Under this plan, I'll never try to sync the iPod to the PowerBook -- it's just a one-computer, one-iPod situation.
I've been following this plan for a week, and it's pretty smooth. It's not exactly what I had in mind, but I've come to think that it's the best approach given how the iPod is designed to work.
I hope this little experiment helps someone, if anyone is trying to do what I was doing.
Cheers,
-Arlo

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Homesharing gives you the option of seeing only the content in the shared library, that is not already in your own library.

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So long as they are on the same wifi network, yes.
Have both computers running and have iTunes open on both computers.
Now, in the iTunes on the computer you want to transfer music to, select the library that you want to transfer music from, as per the following screenshot:
Once the other library loads, go down to the bottom of the screen and in "Show:" select "Items not in my library":
If you want to import all of the songs you can now see, head up to the iTunes menu bar and go "Edit > Select all". Then head down to the bottom of the screen again and click the "Import" button in the bottom-right-hand corner.
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I dont know if you have your music on your other computer was on itunes, but if it was, make sure that you signed into your itunes account on your other computer. If you are signed in then your music should show up in your library.

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