The podcast I listened to for this reflection is Learning in Hand by Tony Vincent, Episode #8: Managing your ipod/s manually
First off, I admit I own an Ipod, but i'm not great with using it for things other than music...
I also didn't realize one computer can update more than one ipod... This podcast talks about syncing 1 ipod with more than one computer, which as it turns out is also a tricky thing to do. For example, letting a student bring their ipod into your classroom to copy audio or video to the device from your classroom. Itunes will tell you that the student has already synced their ipod.... Erasing and syncing is one of the choices, but you should click cancel. If you manually manage music and videos - this is the secret to sharing an ipod among multiple computers and users. Itunes no longer synchronizes the ipod right when it is hooked up, you just have to drag and drop onto the ipod icon.
However, remember to click "eject" before disconnecting your ipod - as this is key.
So, when your ipod is hooked up to another computer it will not automatically sync.
However, remember that you cannot copy material from an ipod to itunes - apple doesn't want the ipod to be used to pirate music...
Podcasts work a little differently though -only podcasts from the first machine the computer has been hooked to will be synced to the ipods - it will remember the first subscriptions.
However if you want to change your podcasts you can check the subscriptions under the other machines.
Tips:
if you ever want to switch back to automatically syncing your ipod just uncheck "manually managing your ipod" in itunes
- To use an ipod with mac and windows, connect it to the windows computer first and format it to windows
- a mac can read a windows formatted ipod, but a windows program cannot read a mac formatted ipod
-However an ipod shuffle automatically works with both computer programs automatically...
If you find you ever need to copy information from an ipod (info, audio, video that currently resides on your ipod) you can use the free software called Floola.... it lets you copy those files to the desktop computer, used if the original copy of the music is on another computer or if the music has somehow gotten deleted on the computer and the ipod holds the sole copy.
Overall, I've learned quite a bit about how to sync my ipod effectively!
Here's my random bit for the day that has to do with "syncing"
True Story: As I helped my younger sister clean her room, I hooked up my ipod to her dock so we could listen to some tunes. I said here's some "*Nsync" Her response - "Is that like when you sync your ipod?" I can't believe my little sister doesn't know who Nsync is, ohhh boy, it made me feel old ;)
And thus proves how times have changed. In the past the only "sync" we knew was Nsync and synchronized swimming - little did we know syncing ipods would be in our future :)
First off, I admit I own an Ipod, but i'm not great with using it for things other than music...
I also didn't realize one computer can update more than one ipod... This podcast talks about syncing 1 ipod with more than one computer, which as it turns out is also a tricky thing to do. For example, letting a student bring their ipod into your classroom to copy audio or video to the device from your classroom. Itunes will tell you that the student has already synced their ipod.... Erasing and syncing is one of the choices, but you should click cancel. If you manually manage music and videos - this is the secret to sharing an ipod among multiple computers and users. Itunes no longer synchronizes the ipod right when it is hooked up, you just have to drag and drop onto the ipod icon.
However, remember to click "eject" before disconnecting your ipod - as this is key.
So, when your ipod is hooked up to another computer it will not automatically sync.
However, remember that you cannot copy material from an ipod to itunes - apple doesn't want the ipod to be used to pirate music...
Podcasts work a little differently though -only podcasts from the first machine the computer has been hooked to will be synced to the ipods - it will remember the first subscriptions.
However if you want to change your podcasts you can check the subscriptions under the other machines.
Tips:
if you ever want to switch back to automatically syncing your ipod just uncheck "manually managing your ipod" in itunes
- To use an ipod with mac and windows, connect it to the windows computer first and format it to windows
- a mac can read a windows formatted ipod, but a windows program cannot read a mac formatted ipod
-However an ipod shuffle automatically works with both computer programs automatically...
If you find you ever need to copy information from an ipod (info, audio, video that currently resides on your ipod) you can use the free software called Floola.... it lets you copy those files to the desktop computer, used if the original copy of the music is on another computer or if the music has somehow gotten deleted on the computer and the ipod holds the sole copy.
Overall, I've learned quite a bit about how to sync my ipod effectively!
Here's my random bit for the day that has to do with "syncing"
True Story: As I helped my younger sister clean her room, I hooked up my ipod to her dock so we could listen to some tunes. I said here's some "*Nsync" Her response - "Is that like when you sync your ipod?" I can't believe my little sister doesn't know who Nsync is, ohhh boy, it made me feel old ;)
And thus proves how times have changed. In the past the only "sync" we knew was Nsync and synchronized swimming - little did we know syncing ipods would be in our future :)
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