Simple Question on using an iPod nano v iPod

I do not have an iPod, but am considering getting one. I have about a 10 gb library of music and have been using a 256 mb mp3 player for the last couple of years. So my process for getting music has been to pick what 50-60 songs I want to hear and load the songs manually. I realize if I get a 30 gb player, I can load my entire library to the unit and update periodically. My question is how iTunes manages music for mp3 players which are smaller than the library. 50-60 songs is one thing, but how do you manually load say 500 songs (i.e. 2 GB nano).
So I guess what is the most common route you ipod users use? Do I need to start making playlist? I currently do not. Does itunes shuffle these 500 songs when connected? Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks
Travis

If the iPod is smaller than your library there are a few things you can do. You can choose the update option "Sync Music - Selected playlists". If you do this you can update any of the existing playlists you have leaving some out or create a playlist specifically for your iPod and drag the tracks you want into it. If you tire of the list and want to change it, you just add or remove the songs you don't want The ones you take out out remain in the library to be used again. You can read more about playlists at these links:
iTunes: Creating playlists of your favorite songs
How to create a Smart Playlist with iTunes
Loading songs onto iPod automatically
Another option is to set the iPod to "Manually manage songs and videos" and drag whatever you like to it: Managing content manually on iPod
Another way but one which I think is more difficult to manage is to choose the "Only sync checked items" option in the iPod Summary tab. By un-checking a song in iTunes, it will not be updated to the iPod and if already on the iPod, unchecking the song in iTunes will remove it from the iPod during the next update with iTunes.
For the automatic options iTunes will add what you have chosen to put on. You can create a Smart playlist that picks a random selection if you like and there is also an option to shuffle songs on the iPod.

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this may be a lame question, but I have an ipod video and my daughter is investing in an ipod nano. Can we use the same itunes on the same computer? Or if I connect her nano to my itunes will it try to download the videos as well? Also in my itunes I have more songs than her nano will take (and songs she doesn't want)! can she download to hers manually as I just always sync mine
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Hi fairyfootlight!
That's a very valid question to ask.
Yes, you can manage multiple iPods through one computer and iTunes library.
"Also in my itunes I have more songs than her nano will take (and songs she doesn't want)! can she download to hers manually as I just always sync mine"
Yes, you could manually manage her nano while syncing yours, although it might be easier to sync both of them.
You see, you can create separate playlists for each iPod, one for each iPod to sync from.
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"Or if I connect her nano to my itunes will it try to download the videos as well?"
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I seem to read nothing but complaints everywhere about the nano and scratches. What a lame deal to have a scratched up ipod! However I personally have not had this trouble at all. I have been carrying my nano half the time (I have had it for weeks now) in my small jeans pocket like Jobs at the keynote. The other half the time in my pocket with my keys, change, earbuds and everything else in that pocket. However in both these places it was in my ipod sock. Which is entirely too big for it, but it seems to even be an odd way of showing it off. When you pull that sock out of your pocket to show somebody and it looks like an empty sock people's mouth's drop when you pull the nano out and tell them what it does. Regardless, my point is.... I have not gone out of my way to be easy on the thing, I use it like I would anything else. I took the plastic off the screen and everything. Not one scratch on the thing. I do not have a black ipod though, which I know has most the complaints. But so far this thing seems easier for me to not scratch than my other ipods that scratched up right away. Which those got scratched while being in the sock I might add.
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Thanks for your positive post. I am glad to hear your good experience with the support. I have also had my goods and my bads with support. Overall I am most pleased with these forums. Although they can't send new product or fix most hardware in the forums, they seem to help the most. People like me will post little things (tips) they have learned with a product (like using the socks) that alot of people think at first are stupid but later on prove usefull. Then you have the level 3,4,5 posters that fix all the problems that people like me screw up on their computer (these people are awesome!). Last of all you have the people that complain. I have done my fair share of it expecially with the nano vs camera connector. But if it wasn't for people complaining their wouldn't be a new nano coming to your probley. I also wouldn't have known to be aware of the scratching issues. Although I have not had that problem doesn't mean I couldn't.
People also do have to realize you see alot of negative's in these forums, but thats because this is where people learn to go if they have problems. Its not a chat room. Apple sent out a whole lot more nano's then the post's upset here with them. Even if there was a thousand or two posts on scratched nanos, thats nothing compared to how many people didn't post. I believe the 1% you are refering to is also 1 tenth of 1 percent refering to the cracked screens, not the scratching. As far as I know apple claimed this is the same material that they used with the fourth gen ipod and its not defective. Again though I am not defending apple as they should replace any products that are truly defective.
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I am horribly disappointed in my black iPod Nano. It arrived a few days ago (my VERY first iPod), and I opened it with joy and excitement. After opening it, setting the Nano no the couch and loading my music, I picked it up and to my horror there were scratches on the back, FROM THE COUCH! Now, after putting it in the Apple Armband there are scratches on the front!
This is my first iPod and my excitement has turned to disappointment. I am not opposed to smalls scratches after using the Nano, but from setting it on the couch scratches SHOULD NOT happen.
Is anyone listening at Apple? Apple, can I return the Nano even though I had it engraved? (A trick on their part in my opinion). Anyone else want to start a petition to get a new nano that doesn't scratch?

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Repeat for the other shuffle, selecting the other son's playlist on its Music screen.
Going forward, to update each son's shuffle, just update their playlists in your iTunes library (add/remove songs). The shuffles do not need to be connected, so your sons can be using them. The next time you connect the shuffles (or when you click Sync if already connected), iTunes automatically updates each shuffle with the same changes.
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The iPhones are recognized by the computer (and can backup to the cloud), but on connection, nothing happens with iTunes.
With the iPods I get the not-very-helpful message:
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An iPod had been detected, but could not be identified properly.
Please disconnect and reconnect the iPod, then try again.
blah, blah, blah.
On clicking More Info, I am presented with 10 steps to take.
I have done every single one of these steps, with the following added bonuses: each time I have carried out any of the steps, I have disconnected the device; disconnected the leads; turned off the device; I have also uninstalled iTunes and installed 'the latest version'; I have restarted the computer, connected the device with brand new cables (the iPods require two different Apple cables: have tried both old and new versions of each).
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I am perfectly prepared to insert a new HD into the computer, build a new version of the station (either Win8, Win7, XP .... even Vista to make my day even worse), but feel that this is a little extreeme!
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