Maximum Number of iPods per User Account?

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Maximum Number of iPods per User Account?

I work in an educational environment and was investigating iPods and podcasts for teachers and students. Is there a maximum number of iPods that can connect to a single user account. i.e. One school account for 100+ iPods. Is there a maximum number of iPods that can be connected to a single library or user account in iTunes? Thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Nov 3, 2008 7:54 AM

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Chris CA

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Nov 3, 2008 8:16 AM in response to twood99

iTunes purchases can be sync'd to a max of 5 iPods on one computer but either than that, I don't belive there is a max.

Check out -> http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html

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Zevoneer

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Nov 3, 2008 8:17 AM in response to twood99

There is no limit to how many iPods can connect to a computer or account. You may be mixing this up with the limit that is set on the use of iTunes Store purchases, only 5 computers at any one time can be authorised to play purchases: About iTunes Music Store Authorisation and Deauthorisation

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Nov 3, 2008 12:39 PM in response to twood99

I'm not sure why you would want to connect over 100 iPods to the one library. If you are expecting everyone to do this with their own iPod then you probably won't have that happening. They sync their iPods with their own libraries on their own computers. They would have to change the way they sync to do it manually in order to add items from another computer, which most won't want to do.

You mentioned podcasts. The way that usually works is that you post the podcast to a website. Everyone then downloads the podcast on their own computer using iTunes and then syncs on their own computer to their iPod.

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