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Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article <ld38se$se$1@dont-email.me>, Ed Cryer
> <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:
>
>> The only way I can figure is this, twisted and too torturous to do.
>> 1. Add all the music I want to the library, but then I'd have to change
>> the sync settings for all devices.
>> 2. Change video settings for all devices (what and where?)
>
> The simplest way I've figured for "music" is to create separate
> playlists for each device within iTunes and then sync each device to
> their own playlist. I sync three. This works fine for me. Everything
> unchecked, once you select the device in iTunes, does not sync or do
> anything at all until you check it. Once you select a device in iTunes,
> everything you do only works on that device. If you want to do
> something related to a different device. Select "that device" within
> iTunes.
> It's really easy when you grok the concept that once you select the
> device within iTunes that you want to fool with, and although iTunes
> seems to remain the same, you are working on one device and all others
> are unaffected, and so are their settings.
> To further answer your points 1 and 2, you save audio, video, apps,
> etc. settings per device within iTunes as you like them with checking
> and unchecking. I have many apps in iTunes, but I only have the ones I
> want on each device. They are still all there in iTunes should I want
> to reload them into the device by checking and syncing them on the
> device. So are all of your music and videos.
> You have to seriously want to delete things from within iTunes in order
> to delete your ability to reinstall them on any of your devices, and it
> has to be done within iTunes, not on your device.
> It's simple magic. I don't understand it. It just works.
>
> leo
>

The playlists method is the one recommended by nospam too, so I feel I 
should go that way. No doubt it will turn out to be easy-peasy once I've 
done it for the first time.

I was considering another method; separate app for ipod only.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57433877-93/dont-like-the-ipads-music-app-here-are-two-alternatives/

Have you ever tried that method?

Ed

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Added ipod Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2014-02-06 21:49 +0000
  Re: Added ipod nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-06 16:57 -0500
    Re: Added ipod Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2014-02-06 22:13 +0000
      Re: Added ipod nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-06 17:29 -0500
      Re: Added ipod Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@isp.spam> - 2014-02-06 20:28 -0500
        Re: Added ipod nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-06 21:45 -0500
          Re: Added ipod Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2014-02-07 14:29 +0000
            Re: Added ipod Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2014-02-07 15:11 +0000
              Re: Added ipod Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-07 17:07 +0000
              Re: Added ipod nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-07 12:09 -0500
                Re: Added ipod Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2014-02-07 18:31 +0000
                Re: Added ipod nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-07 15:43 -0500
                Re: Added ipod Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2014-02-08 17:02 +0000
                Re: Added ipod Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-08 17:10 +0000
                Re: Added ipod nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-08 12:54 -0500
                Re: Added ipod Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2014-02-07 22:53 -0800
                Re: Added ipod Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2014-02-08 12:02 +0000
                Re: Added ipod nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-08 12:54 -0500
                Re: Added ipod Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2014-02-10 19:41 -0800
                Re: Added ipod Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2014-02-11 15:02 +0000
            Re: Added ipod nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-07 12:09 -0500
        Re: Added ipod Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-07 03:38 +0000
          Re: Added ipod Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-02-07 15:40 +0000
            Re: Added ipod Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-07 17:08 +0000

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