h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Well today I finally got my xmas present from me to me! It is a lovely iPod Nano Black. And boy is it a thing of beauty!

Trouble is I cannot get the music I want onto the damn thing. As I have only a 8gig Nano but somewhere in the region of 30gig of music on my PC it seems I have to create a playlist of what I want and set my iPod to only "sync" from that playlist.

Fair enough but there does not seem to be any mechanism by which I can select whole albums to go on the playlist, only individual tracks WTF?

Surely Apple of all companies can not have designed software *that* flawed, that I have to individually select all of the allegedly 2000 tracks my Nano will store. I *must* be missing something surely.

Help

You have the ability to import whole folders of stuff on your pc into iTunes (cannot remember the exact instructions off the top of my head, but I think it may be under the File menu) but then you must drag and drop into the iPod folder (or shift-choose and drag and drop). I must admit I am fairly underwhelmed with my first experiece of iTunes - I think that it has massive flaws with its design (but then maybe I want something different to most people, or have not explored it enough - but being able to create a simple hierarchy would be nice). Hope this helps and until later....
BCNU - Crescent

I have managed to get iTunes to have my music collection. The problem is ocnvincing it to move the music I want on my iPod to my iPod.

I am astonished that Apple have not made this easier. My previous MP3 player was based on a folder drag and drop and that was soooo much easier.

Crikey the Apple official help site is no use either. It seems I will infact have to manually select every track of albums to transfer over. What an amazing design flaw from a company that preach usability.

Crikey.

When you say the apple official help site, do you mean this?

http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa?categoryID=1

I've got some great help from people on these boards from posting here.

Ahhh, no.

I will have to try them. However I suspect from speaking to my iPod using work pals that in fact it is not possible to do what I want and iTunes is just *really* badly designed.

Aha, and within minutes of posting my question to the relevant board instead of bellyaching on hootoo I have a solution. Who would have thunk it?

Did they tell you to sort your library by album, select an entire album, and drag and drop? Or was there something cleverer?

TRiG.

Excellent! Good news FB

You click on the first tune, then hold shift and click on the last et viola!

Still I dont really see what the problem with good old "click and drag" is, but I suppose I am a PC user. If I used Macs I would probably already have known about this.

Lots of fun with your new toy

I got a new one for Chritsmas too, and am having fun creating different playlists for bedroom, rock, jogging etc. Twas lovely last night to stick it into the speaker system in the bedroom and know that the songs would match the mood.

Lent my old one to my daughter, who's able to do something fancy with playlists on the actual pod itself (must ask her to show me more slowly...)

Her old one is very ill. I might try the website for suggestions as to how to cure it