Syncing and Simplifying Libraries

Just got a nano for my son and I want to put his iPhone 4 music library on it. That library has no corresponding iMac library as we somehow seem to have created a new account for his direct d'loads to his phone that is different than the account on our iMac. He wants some music from the imac library and all the music from his phone library to end up on his nano. I want this all to be one library. So, can I sync the phone and iMac libraries, then delete the unwanted tracks from the iMac library then sync remaining music to the nano.
What is the right way to go about this?
BTW, A backup always precedes a sync and I don't wish to include apps. Where can I instruct program not to back them up? Can't find it on the apps page.
(This posted in error in the nano section, sorry)

We need to get some terminology straight:
iTunes Store account - A store account. Not something on your computer but the online interface to the store. What you are using when you have to enter an AppleID and a password either in iTunes or on an iOS device.
Computer account - Different user areas (accounts) on a computer can each have an iTunes library.
iTunes Library - A collection of media files and folder which are what you see when you are using the iTunes application. Some people call this an account too, but it isn't.
A library on a computer is not neecessarily associated with a single store account, though it certainly can be. So this one that is on the iMac already, is that to be his, or still shared, or what? You say yours is elsewhere so I take it it is not on the iMac, or is it?
One step will be to get the content from the phone to the iTunes library that will be his. You can either transfer from the phone to the library or re-download purchases directly to the account. If you attach a phone which has never been connected to a library before it will want to erase content on the phone but will let you transfer store purchases only which can be re-synced back to the phone.
Another step if you decide to set up a new library for him on the imac will be to transfer the extra content he wants. This may be as simple as adding existing files to his library though again compleity is presnt in your deciding if you want to share files with him or have his own copy (which might be a better idea if you're not talking many files).
After all this syncing the nano will be easy.

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Source http://www.macworld.com/article/146231/2010/02/aperture3.html?lsrc=twt_jsnell

SuzanneT wrote:
I've been waiting for this forever! I downloaded the new version this morning, and can't find anything in the user manual or in the Apple topics about how to do this......... can anyone help?
From Macworld review.... "A photographer with a MacBook Pro on a remote photo shoot can start with a fresh library and import it into his or her master library upon returning home. More impressively, Aperture will sync and merge libraries: photographers can export a portion of their libraries to a laptop, take it on the road to do work, and then bring that library back home. Aperture will detect what’s changed and sync only the changes back to the master library."
Source http://www.macworld.com/article/146231/2010/02/aperture3.html?lsrc=twt_jsnell
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Welcome to the  Discussion Forums.
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I'm sure this is answered elsewhere, but I was not able to find a solution to this easily. My wife "L" and I, "J" have iPhones, also different tastes in music, and wanted a way to not have all of our own pictures filling up our default iPhoto library. So we first set up two different iTunes and iPhoto libraries. Two diffrent contact libraries would be nice, but contact groups worked okay for this. But then everytime we would sync, it meant opening both iTunes and iPhoto while holding the option key then selecting which library depending on which phone was going to be pluged in. Believe me, you only need to have "Automatically sync" turned on and plug in the wrong iPhone before all sorts of problems arise!
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Hi, thanks for your answer.
Unfortunately this does not work because iTunes still keeps one account with the store active regardless which library I open. So when I switch the account in the store it will be switched for both libraries. That means that I can not separate the iPhone applications and all the other specific sync parameters.
I thought about using my wife's account on the Mac and pointing iTunes to the new library - the problem here is that then the iPhoto library is not accessible any more......
I can't really believe that there is no solution from Apple - I mean there must be more couples and families out there with 2 and more iPhones syncing with one iTunes / iPhoto etc libraries.
Any other ideas? Thanks in advance!

Syncing and streaming from different itunes libraries on same computer

First, I came across a thread saying that it is possible to sync and stream from the same itunes library, but Apple technical support says this is not possible and the thread didn't explain how this is done. I know you can still stream music from a library that is synced with the ATV by using Airtunes, but you can't stream movies through Airtunes. If there's a way to sync and stream movies through the ATV from the same itunes library, can someone please let me know how to do it?
If this is not possible, does anyone know if it's possible to sync to one library and stream from another on the same computer? I tried this last night and for a second I thought it worked because my itunes was listed on the ATV twice (once as syncing and the other as streaming) but then when I switched back to the library that the ATV was supposed to be synced with, that library disappeared from the ATV and I lost all of the media on the ATV. (As a side note, when I started syncing again, the ATV showed that it still had all of the media on there, but itunes showed that there was nothing and started copying everything again - very annoying).
This is an issue for me because I only have one computer and all of my media on an external harddrive. I like having my music synced with the ATV but my movies will not fit on the ATV so I would prefer to just stream those rather than have to delete and add movies everytime I want to watch something different. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

missed a very important step necessary to achieve this, in the summary tab in iTunes there is a check box... "show only synced items".. if you uncheck that box then unsynced items will will appear on the appleTV menus and when you click on them they will be streamed... this gives you the sync and stream from the same library part of what the OP wants.
the other part of the puzzle is to let items inside and outside of the iTunes Folder exist in the iTunes library... the library is file that contains all the files that you see in itunes... files don't need to be in the iTunes folder to be in the itunes library though..
the trick here is that when you drag the files from your external (the ones you don't want on your computer) and into iTunes... press option as you drag and the files will be added to the iTunes library (a reference/path to them really) but the files will not be copied to the iTunes folder... when iTunes looks for that file (to play it directly or to stream or sync to appleTV) it looks at the reference and says.. hey i can get this file here (on your external) and goes and fetches it.
on a PC you press SHIFT as you drag into iTunes so the item(s) don't get copied to the iTunes folder.. no OPTION key on PCs.
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Creative Cloud won't sync with my Libraries

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Any suggestions would be appreciated,
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OK - this is how you could do it. using Smart playlists.
But first, convert all the lossless tracks you want on your iPod to AAC (and perhaps use a bitrate that you don't have other tracks in? An unusual one, say 160 or 192).
Create a Smart Playlist with criterion Kind = AAC (if all your non-lossless tracks are MP3 as you say), or bitrate = 160 (192, or whatever), if you already have both AAC and MP3. OR if this will get too confusing, Date Added = (less than 2 weeks, say). You'll think of something that works for you, I'm sure.
Manually manage your iPod (not sync) and drag the contents of the Smart playlist to your iPod. Then delete the tracks from your Mac while keeping the playlist. In future, any tracks you convert for iPod will be in that playlist, from where you can drag them over to the iPod and then delete them off your Mac.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305287
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Was this what you meant?

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Hello,
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This allowed me to stream items that I didn't want to sync.
I would do this by going to the 'sources' option and directly selecting my Mac Based iTunes library, rather than the ATV library.
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Depends on what you mean by unchecked.
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