Two Ipod users on one home computer

If two Ipod Touch users use the same computer, how do you set things up so that my contents are not loaded automatically into his Ipod and his are not loaded into mine? I didn't anticipate this when I bought my Ipod so perhaps there was something I should have done in the initial setup. Thanks for your help!

Hello Cosiena,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
There are several ways to manage multiple iPods with one computer. For more information on these different methods and how to accomplish each, see this Apple support document.
[How to use multiple iPods with one computer|http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1495]
B-rock

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Two ipod users on one computer

Does anyone have any info on how to set up different iTunes for two different users? My wife and I both now have nanos, and very different tastes in music. How best to handle? Two different iTunes on one computer? Thoughts?

The best way to have completely different iTunes libraries would be to set up separate accounts in Windows for each of you. That way you can each maintain completely separate music libraries.
If you just want to have different sets of music on your iPods, set them either for manual updating or to update only selected playlists, then keep individual playlists for each of your iPods.

Help with two ipod users on one computer???

Ok heres a quick rundown of the problem. My girlfriend and i both have ipod minis and i am having difficulty getting I tunes to work for me. Her I tunes works fine for her I pod, but when i try to add music files to my ipod using her I tunes, it keeps telling me that my ipod is attached to another music library, then it asks me if i want to erase the music on the ipod and download her music. I thought that maybe i was doing something wrong so i decided to install my copy of itunes to remedy the problem. I tried to install my ipods i tune disc onto the computer, everything looks like it installs well but for some reason its seems as though you can't have two versions of itunes on one computer. Can someone help me? Is there an easy way to fix this?

OH good lord! Go into your start up menu and find Tour Windows XP and it will show you how. OR GO into your Control Panel, click on USER ACCOUNTS and go from there...its not rocket science, trust me

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Hello Cosiena,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
There are several ways to manage multiple iPods with one computer. For more information on these different methods and how to accomplish each, see this Apple support document.
[How to use multiple iPods with one computer|http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1495]
B-rock

Two ipod users on one laptop - how to set up separate libraries?

My husband has a 20gb ipod with his music on my laptop. I went to install my new 30 gb and the itunes program was updated with my serial #,etc. Now his library comes up in iTunes. How can I separate his iTunes account/library from my own?
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You need to set each IPOD up to either manually update or auto update selected playlists only.
Read these please:
Auto Update and Manual Update Songs:
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod101/tunes/3/#3

I have one home computer and our household has 2 iphones. I am signed up on itunes and now my husband would like to have an account with itunes as well. Can there be two accounts for 2 users for itunes on one home computer? How do I add another account ?

I have one home computer and our household has 2 iphones. I am signed up on itunes and now my husband would like to have an account with itunes as well. Can there be two accounts for 2 users for itunes on one home computer? How do I add another account ?

Have a read here...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18409815?ac_cid=ha
And See Here...
How to Use Multiple iDevices with One Computer

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How do I consolidate an Itunes music library on two windows computers onto one windows computer?

How do I consolidate an Itunes music library on two windows computers onto one windows computer?

Click here, pick the option which best fits your situation, open the larger library in iTunes, move the media files from the smaller one into the library in the open iTunes program window or the Automatically Add to iTunes folder, and then import the playlists. Any rented movies will only play on the computer they were originally downloaded to.
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We have 2 itouchs, we a separate itunes account for each one. We have one home computer to use them both on for syc and icloud, the icloud will not accept the 2 accounts?

we have 2 itouchs, we a separate itunes account for each one. We have one home computer to use them both on for sync and icloud, the icloud will not accept the 2 accounts?

Do you know what happens if you delete the icloud account from an iphone 4s? Will it delete the pictures, documents, etc. from the phone, or just unlink the icloud from the phone? I want to associate a different icloud account to the phone.

HT1329 I wish to transfer all the music on my ipod (synced with my home computer) to my itunes on my work computer. Is this possible? I am concerned if I plug my ipod into the work computer, which has itunes but no music content, that it will automaticall

I wish to transfer all the music on my ipod (synced with my home computer) to my itunes on my work computer. Is this possible? I am concerned if I plug my ipod into the work computer, which has itunes but no music content, that it will automatically sync and wipe all the content from ipod. Can anyone advise?

Only if you use a third-party utility such as Phone to PC and only if you use the same Apple ID for your other computer.

We have two Ipod Touches in the Home and two Ipads. Right now one of the Ipads has a separate user indentity. Can both Ipods be used to use the same library with different user ids's and different passwords.

We have two Ipod touches and two Ipads in our home. Right now both Ipods are using the same used id and password to access itunes and sync music. But recently both os us have downloaded the Ibooks segment to our Ipads and now the only way to sync the second Ipad for Ibooks is to use the same used id and password. But the problem is that with our two Ipads in the home, we established two separate used ids and passwords one for each. Is there a way for me to still use the second Ipod touch and the second Ipad with completely separate userids and passwords. In other words to share the music library I have accumulated and yet to sign in each with our separate identities. That way the Ipads can sync and the Ipod touches can sync. Is this possible.

This is to avoid piracy. What could happen is, people could buy music, and give it away for free online. Usually it is then you buy a complete album off iTunes that it will only be available on one device. It is tied to that account, and the device must be registered to that account to listen to it.

How do two ipod's use one computer to download itunes?

New to ipod's/itunes. Family member already has an itune account set up on my computer to download music. Can I set up my own account on the same computer to share the itunes program?

Do you want to share all the same media and the same iTunes account/Apple ID with that other family member?
Or do you want to keep your media separate, and/or use a different iTunes account/Apple ID?
If you want to use all the same media and share the same account/ID, just connect your iPod to the computer using the USB cable and perform a sync.
Otherwise, you might be best off setting up a new user account on your computer first, so that you will have two different iTunes libraries. This will allow you and your family member to both use the same computer but have completely different (and separate) data accessible via iTunes and on your iPods or other iOS devices.
How to use multiple iPods, iPads, or iPhones with one computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1495

Multiple Ipod users for one computer

How do you set up Itunes for 2 Ipods running through one computer/Itunes?
Thanks!

If both iPods have all the same music in their iTunes libraries (or if they're using the exact same iTunes Library) and both have the option selected to Sync All Selected Songs ... then they'll both have everything on them.
If you go by the two user accounts method, make sure the iPod is set to sync only selected songs/videos/etc, and then that ONLY the songs, etc, they want are selected.
If you use the playlists method, make sure that each iPod is set up to sync only the playlists they want. Personally, I'm using the playlist method for my two iPods. The other iPod's in the house use yet another method that is much more complicated and involves creating multiple iTunes libraries for the same account.
To answer the question of the "Privaledges" question, I think you were trying to go by the two accounts method. If so, the account installing iTunes has to have Administration rights. But once it's installed once, you can RUN it from multiple accounts without installing it again. Just browse to the iTunes.exe file and run it in the other account. When it runs, iTunes will probably load with an empty Library.
This happens because iTunes just created a new library file in the new account's "My Music\iTunes\" folder. That's a good thing. Then if you go to iTunes Preferences and change the location of the iTunes library to where all the music is, and let iTunes manage your music folders, it will add everything to the new library file.
Now, both accounts have the exact same files added to their independent Libraries. From here, they can Un-click or delete the songs they don't want in their library--just make sure to let the users/kids know NOT to Click "Move to the Recycle Bin". That will delete the file so that neither account can access it. When they delete files the other user may want, they'll have to select "Keep File(s)".
But then, they should have their own private music libraries WITHOUT actually having the music stored in two separate locations, possibly making lots of duplicates and wasting hard drive space. I'm pretty sure in both Windows XP and Windows Vista you can change the permissions of user accounts to where they CAN'T delete files, and that may actually be something you'll want to try if you think they'll just end up deleting each other's music permanently.

Managing two iTunes users on one computer - a complicated scenario.

Here's my situation: I have two users/accounts on my computer. Each user wants access to all the media (music, podcasts, etc) on the computer.
However, there are a few specific constraints:
1) Each user's instance of iTunes should only display the media they want it to display (for example, if they don't want a certain song, they can remove it from their iTunes library, but it would still exist for the other user).
2) Star ratings, play counts, and other sort-of meta data must be unique for each user (for example, if user one assigns 5 stars to a particular song, that won't affect user two who only gave it 1 star).
3) If one user deletes media from their library it won't suddenly disappear from the other's library because the file has been deleted.
4) No duplicate copies of any given media file (for example, if both users like a particular song, there would not be two actual copies of that song's file laying around - each user's library would reference the same file).
5) No unused media files (for example, if neither user wants a particular song, the actual file would be deleted and would not just sit there unused eating up space).
I hope that makes sense. Any ideas?

I'm not worried about downloads from the iTunes music store (yet)... I'm primarily concerned with existing music. I tried following Apple's instructions for sharing music:
a) I moved both account's media folders to a shared location.
b) Then, using "Add to library" I added the contents of each media folder to the other's iTunes Library. At this point both users had access to all music, and star ratings/play counts were unique for each user.
c) If user A didn't like a song from user B's collection, and removed it from the library, it still appeared in user B's library. And vice versa. Great!
d) If user A didn't like a song from his own collection, and removed it from the library, it still appeared in user B's collection so long as user A didn't also trash the actual file. Great!
That left me with two problems: First, duplicate copies of song files. This wasn't a big deal because I could slowly weed them out - but still kinda annoying. And second, unused (by either user) copies of song still had their files there taking up space. This was problematic as I couldn't figure out a way to find these files and trash them.
I figured surely there was a better solution - be it how to handle the above problem, or a completely different method of setting things up to begin with.

Two ipods accounts on one computer?

hellow, i'm new to this site, as you can tell(# of posts). anyway, i already own a ipod (4g),and just got my wife a ipod(1g). the problem is, i don't know how to get her, her own account. i tried to run her ipod+itunes disc, but i almost lost all my stuff.......can someone please help? any info would be greatley appreciated. thanx.

Welcome to the discussions. See this:
Using two iPods with One Computer
JC

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