Q: mini Ipod and itunes
Hello I recently helped someone with his 2006 powerbook.
He has a tiny ipod and wants to get music on it. He already got a lot but when plugging the ipod it looks like a USB key with nothing in it except the 4 songs he moves from itunes.
Itunes opens straight when pluggin the ipod but there is no music library, the one inside the ipod doesn't appear and look like empty
Anyone has an idea what is going wrong?!
thanks
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 4 gb memory
Posted on Mar 9, 2016 3:01 AM
it looks like a USB key with nothing in it except the 4 songs he moves from itunes.
If you can see the song files on the iPod using Finder, those song files are just "random" files that were manually added to the iPod in disk mode. The iPod's software does not treat them as songs.
Songs are loaded on the iPod using iTunes. What version of iTunes is he running? It says "Mac OS X (10.7.5)" in your profile info, but that may not be HIS version, because a PowerBook can only run 10.5.8 (at the latest), unless that's a mistake it's actually a MacBook (Intel-based). In either case, it could mean the version of iTunes is not the latest version 12.x, which looks a bit different from earlier versions.
I can provide more details, once you confirm the iTunes version, but to summarize, the first step is to add songs to the iTunes library. Once the songs he wants on the iPod are in the Mac's iTunes library, he can load songs manually by dragging songs from the iTunes music library to the iPod (as it appears in iTunes). OR, he can set up automatic syncing to have iTunes keep the iPod "in sync" with the Mac's iTunes music library (or a selected portion of it).
Posted on Jun 19, 2016 1:01 AM