Guide to iPod syncing

[davidbspalding]

Thanks for the guide which is very clear. Just one thing that made me loose a lot of time and I could not understand. All of my music is on a remote disk shared via Windows share. MM is on my local laptop. The share appears as the S: disk locally. I followed the guide and when syncing got a "Prearing file list" but then NOTHING happened. It was simply because the network share was not "mounted" (had to provide the userid and password in windows) et voila now everything worked as advertised !
Dunno if you want to mention that in your guide.

I have a similar setup, if you search on my posts you'll find a more specific description. In short, some versions of Windows have a problem trying to access even a persistent drive mapping for the first time. I changed to accessing the share via IP, e.g. \\192.168.1.2\share1\ . That should resolve your problem.

[tvrb]

hello,
i have the latest version of MM (3.2.4...) and (for better or worse) the latest version of apple firmware on my ipod touch (4.2.1).

since about august i haven't been able to sync my ipod. i've resorted to using itunes, but i would really really like to go back to mm. i have no idea why it isn't working.
itunes is setup to "manually manage music" and everything is manually synced. my ipod doesn't even show up in mm.

what are some things i can check to fix it?

[nohitter151]

hello,
i have the latest version of MM (3.2.4...) and (for better or worse) the latest version of apple firmware on my ipod touch (4.2.1).

since about august i haven't been able to sync my ipod. i've resorted to using itunes, but i would really really like to go back to mm. i have no idea why it isn't working.
itunes is setup to "manually manage music" and everything is manually synced. my ipod doesn't even show up in mm.

what are some things i can check to fix it?

iTunes is installed on the same PC that MM is on?

[tvrb]

iTunes is installed on the same PC that MM is on?

yes, is that ok?

[nohitter151]

iTunes is installed on the same PC that MM is on?

yes, is that ok?

Yes, it needs to be. If you have the latest version of iTunes, Quicktime, and MM installed on the PC and it still isn't detected by MM, then you should open a support ticket via the support link at the top of the page.

[MyCsPiTTa]

Thanks for the great guide nohitter, which I've used many times in the past. However, I wonder if someone can make an updated version of this? Later versions of iTunes have not looked like this guide's screenshots for a long time now, and we are even to the point where the tabs and checkboxes have moved to other tabs or simply don't exist anymore (and many other new ones have appeared).

I'm about to setup my iPhone 4 with iOS4.2 and iTunes 10.1, but really don't know where to start in this guide anymore.

[nohitter151]

Thanks for the great guide nohitter, which I've used many times in the past. However, I wonder if someone can make an updated version of this? Later versions of iTunes have not looked like this guide's screenshots for a long time now, and we are even to the point where the tabs and checkboxes have moved to other tabs or simply don't exist anymore (and many other new ones have appeared).

I'm about to setup my iPhone 4 with iOS4.2 and iTunes 10.1, but really don't know where to start in this guide anymore.

The pictures might not line up right, but the idea is the same. Basically uncheck everything in iTunes. Generally you don't want iTunes syncing anything, and especially disable anything automatic in itunes.

[Skizr420]

I have a problem and was wondering if there was anything i could do... The thing is I cant install Itunes because it has somehow decided to totally take over my computer, meaning if i try to open about 80% of the programs on my computer including some actual windows features it opens up itunes, everything down to browsers and media players and notepad. So with this being the horrible fact that it is can I still possibly do this without using itunes? I have in the past had my ipod hooked up into an old computer of mine and I always manually managed everything, so can I just continue on from there?


EDIT: Just in case it matters I can install and uninstall itunes when needed but it is an annoying process and then i have to wait for some other program to update my icons and untill then every icon on my pc is the itunes icon.

[nohitter151]

I have a problem and was wondering if there was anything i could do... The thing is I cant install Itunes because it has somehow decided to totally take over my computer, meaning if i try to open about 80% of the programs on my computer including some actual windows features it opens up itunes, everything down to browsers and media players and notepad. So with this being the horrible fact that it is can I still possibly do this without using itunes? I have in the past had my ipod hooked up into an old computer of mine and I always manually managed everything, so can I just continue on from there?


EDIT: Just in case it matters I can install and uninstall itunes when needed but it is an annoying process and then i have to wait for some other program to update my icons and untill then every icon on my pc is the itunes icon.

read the wiki, you only need itunes with the ipod touch and iphone.

[Skizr420]

ahh, then mr lazy me sincerly apologizes for not reading all the way through heh

[Big-Red]

Why is my ipod touch being read as an iphone in mm?

[nohitter151]

Why is my ipod touch being read as an iphone in mm?

The iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone all use the iphone plugin.

[Big-Red 2.0]

Ok I still your help. At first MM will read my touch as a touch for a while and i will be able to copying songs to it in that time. But then it will stop letting to copy songs to it. MM will freeze then will crash. So I restart MM and thats when is will read my touch as an iphone and then if i try and copy songs to it it will delete all the songs i copied to it while it read it as a touch. What do I do? I have had this since christmas and have not been able to maintain any type of song library on my 32g ipod touch.

[nohitter151]

Ok I still your help. At first MM will read my touch as a touch for a while and i will be able to copying songs to it in that time. But then it will stop letting to copy songs to it. MM will freeze then will crash. So I restart MM and thats when is will read my touch as an iphone and then if i try and copy songs to it it will delete all the songs i copied to it while it read it as a touch. What do I do? I have had this since christmas and have not been able to maintain any type of song library on my 32g ipod touch.

For freezing/crashing you need a debug log to see the problem.

[koa4fun]

How ( physically ) do I download my ipod to media monkey? Do I use the same usb conx? What keeps itunes from taking over. My situation is I lost all my music from itunes. I pulloed it up one day and all my music was gone. I now have an ipod with all my music, and that is it. I want to download it to mediamonkey ( cause itune ticked me off ) but am afraid to somehow erase my only copy of my music. Make me confident!