My Mac is synced to an i-pod nano. I have a new i-pod touch. I thought my computer would see this as a separate device with its own sync list allowing different playlists & content, but it doesn't. Must I use an old Mac for the Nano if I want to sync both i-pods & wish to avoid going manual?
iPod touch, iOS 8.4, older i-pod nano, MacBookPro 10.7.5
When you connect each device, iTunes will identify each as a different device. What makes you think iTunes is identifying them as the same device?
Post a screen shot if that would help
When you connect each device, iTunes will identify each as a different device. What makes you think iTunes is identifying them as the same device?
Post a screen shot if that would help
Thank you. I can now see that i-tunes is recognizing each device. However, I get an error message when I prepare to sync the 2nd device, that only 1 i-pod can be synced with one i-tunes library.
Therefore I have imported the needed albums for the 2nd i-pod to my old mac through home sharing. Large slow import. Tomorrow will find out if I can set up a separate sync list for this i-pod and successfully sync. it.
Thanks again.
Take a screen shot of that message and post it here. You can just dract the screenshot in the the reply window. What you saysdoes not make sense.
How to take a screenshot on your Mac
The message may be saying that one device was previously synced to another iTunes library. To switch syncing coputer/libries yo hae to do things like
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities
I just sent the screen shot. It looks like I confused the error message to mean you couldn't sync 2 i-pods when it really meant you couldn't sync to 2 different libraries. I just finished syncing the albums my wife wanted to the i-pod nano. I did not create playlists although I think I could have kept the playlists of the 2 different i-pods separate by using folders. I think she will be happy as the list will be a lot less cluttered than with playlists for each meditation album & much easier to sync in the future on the same computer as her other devices.
Thank you so much. Problem solved.
syncing 2 different i-pods
