Apple MD479LL/A Syncing Music Automatically, Syncing Music From Selected Playlists to iPod nano

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You can set iTunes to add music to iPod nano in three ways:

ÂSync all songs and playlists: When you connect iPod nano, it’s automatically updated to match the songs and other items in your iTunes library. Any other songs on iPod nano are deleted.

ÂSync selected playlists: When you connect iPod nano, it’s automatically updated to match the songs in playlists you select in iTunes.

ÂManually add music to iPod nano: When you connect iPod nano, you can drag songs and playlists individually to iPod nano, and delete songs and playlists individually from iPod nano. Using this option, you can add songs from more than one computer without erasing songs from iPod nano. When you manage music yourself, you must always eject iPod nano from iTunes before you can disconnect it.

Syncing Music Automatically

By default, iPod nano is set to sync all songs and playlists when you connect it to your computer. This is the simplest way to add music to iPod nano. You just connect

iPod nano to your computer, let it add songs, audiobooks, videos, and other items automatically, and then disconnect it and go. If you added any songs to iTunes since the last time you connected iPod nano, they are synced with iPod nano. If you deleted songs from iTunes, they are removed from iPod nano.

To sync music with iPod nano:

mSimply connect iPod nano to your computer. If iPod nano is set to sync automatically, the update begins.

Important: The first time you connect iPod nano to a computer, a message asks if you want to sync songs automatically. If you accept, all songs, audiobooks, and videos are erased from iPod nano and replaced with songs and other items from that computer. If you don’t accept, you can still add songs to iPod nano manually without erasing any of the songs already on iPod nano.

While music is being synced from your computer to iPod nano, the iTunes status window shows progress, and you see a sync icon next to the iPod nano icon in the source list.

When the update is done, a message in iTunes says “iPod update is complete.”

Syncing Music From Selected Playlists to iPod nano

Setting iTunes to sync selected playlists to iPod nano is useful if the music in your iTunes library doesn’t all fit on iPod nano. Only the music in the playlists you select is synced to iPod nano.

To set iTunes to sync music from selected playlists to iPod nano:

1In iTunes, select iPod nano in the source list and click the Music tab.

2Select “Sync music” and then choose “Selected playlists.”

Chapter 2 Setting Up iPod nano