Listen to iPod through iTunes

Apr 08, '03 09:15:00AM

Contributed by: Greenfruit

This may well be common knowledge, but Ive only recently discovered this through wanting to charge my iPod and listen to the music at the same time at work.

I have my iPod set to automatically update all playlists, but if you connect you iPod to another Mac (i.e. not the 'home' Mac with the tracks and playlists on it), then when you open iTunes and it explains that this is a different Mac than the one with your iPod's library and asks 'Do you want to replace it?,' say no. Then click on the iPod icon in the bottom right in iTunes and set it to 'Manually manage tracks and playlists.' You can now play the tracks from the iPod through iTunes and even change your rating and track details etc.

There are some Applescripts around that even enable you to select tracks and copy them to your Mac from here.

Just remember to change the settings to automatically update the iPod when you get back to your 'home' iTunes.

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