How the hell does one add songs to an Ipod?

[soulslicer]

I have my I-tunes open, and have all my songs in the Music Tab all checks, and every time I sync nothing copies. Been struggling with this ****ing apple product for about an hour already, searched for other software and none of them seem to work.

This is really annoying, and I need some help. Mind you I used google to search up articles on how one adds songs to an ipod, and I came up with nothing, or their help page refers to an ancient version of I-tunes.

I'm really pissed now.

 

[The_E]

use simple regular mp3 players.Or your cell phone

 

[VirusType2]

I just plug my mp3 player in, open it like a folder, and drag drop songs into it. It works like a thumbdrive/flashdrive/memory stick

 

[Ravioli]

you have to drag and drop each song from the music tab into the ipod tab.

 

[soulslicer]

If I used it via Windows Explorer, I can't see the songs on my Ipod, and i what do you mean 'drag them into the Ipod-tab", it doesn't seem to allow me to do that.

 

[knut]

You need to make a playlist, entitled something like 'slicers iPod' or whatever, then relocate all the music you want to that playlist, then when you plug your iPod into your computer, it'll bring up a new selection of menus. Click 'Music', select (tick box) the playlist that has all the music in it, then hit sync.

I think.

 

[VirusType2]

one way to do it:


Plug in your Ipod, open 'computer', and click on the ipod drive letter as if it was a hard drive.

It should open up like a folder in windows explorer and you should see any songs on it.

drag songs into that folder to add them, delete them to remove them.

When you drag stuff into it, it will copy it, it will never move them, so you don't have to worry about deleting stuff that's on your Ipod. You've got the copy still on your computer.

 

[Ravioli]

Plug in your Ipod, open 'computer', and click on the ipod drive letter as if it was a hard drive.

It should open up like a folder in windows exploerer and you should see any songs on it.

drag songs into that folder to add them, delete them to remove them.

When you drag stuff into it, it will copy it, it will never move them, so you don't have to worry about deleting stuff that's on your Ipod. You've got the copy still on your computer.

I thought Ipods doesnt allow that? it only works through Itunes.

 

[VirusType2]

OK. Ipod is crap then.

 

[Madagascar]

Try hitting the ipod with a hammer.

 

[Ravioli]

Ok il draw it out for you:

You simply select the song, drag it to the ipod, deselect, and it will load into the ipod. Then hit the eject button to disconnect the ipod from the computer.

 

[FishBulb]

Well, I dunno if anything's changed from iTunes 7 to 8. But in 7, you create a new playlist first and then right click on your songs in the Music tab, click 'Add to Playlist' and choose your newly created playlist. Once that's done, then you sync.

 

[Baal]

iTunes is not that hard to figure out. Sure, one setting set improperly can royally screw you over, but it shouldn't hard to find which settings are doing just that.

There may be a couple of reasons your music not syncing, and here are some pictures to help you:

Spoiler

 

[Dalamari]

soulslicer fails at everything, including failing

 

[DEATHMASTER]

get DOPISP

 

[Robert-]

When you connect your ipod, go to the ipod tab, check "manually manage music and movies". Then do the drag and drop thing.

 

[Gray Fox]

Don't use itunes, it shit and installs like 3 background processed that are active no matter what.
Use sharepod.

 

[PvtRyan]

I just use Foobar2000 and select 'Synchronize iPod' and select the playlists I want.

It's even easier than Explorer drag and drop. I think that an iPod database system is superior to drag and drop when combined with a proper UI (not iTunes).

 

[xombine]

^Sharepod is good, lets you get the music off the iPod to put on friends' computers.

Also, Winamp now works with iPods.

 

[-Psy-]

iTunes for the fail!

 

[jerkasaur]

In order to drag and drop you must enable a mode in which opens your iPod as a drive, but since I couldn't do this myself (guess it's because of my iPod model), here's how I work:
install iTunes
plug in your iPod
click on iPod below "devices", there should be a page telling you to 1.set up your iPod and 2.sign up for apple store.
press continue and select a name for your iPod and blah blah blah
there should now be a page with you iPod stats and some tabs, like music, video, photos and so on. open music (I mean the one above "devices" section)
add music by selecting the folder you have your music on (iTunes asks for you to sync your music the first time you run the program too)
select the tracks you want (you can select multiply tracks by holding down ctrl or shift when you are selecting tracks in a row)
right click and copy
in the music tab of the iPod section (below devices" again) right click and paste.

let me know if you succeed.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

Use foobar, sharepod, or winamp...

iTunes is terrible.

 

[Baal]

I still use Winamp 2.80

I doubt it has any kind of iPod functionality.

 

[The Monkey]

Mine just does it automatically, I have no idea what you guys are talking about draging stuff to the iPod icon, that shouldn't be necessary.

 

[soulslicer]

Finally! Goddamn I-tunes 8 doesn't have an expandable menu on the devices section and I had to create a playlist to do it. Thanks guys, mostly to Baal and Antipop for giving me the solution.

Apparently, my device had been linked to this utterly strange playlist called On-the-go 14, which strangely synced to my Ipod. Went to the Music tab under my devices and changed the selected playlist to sync from. And this point of time, I got to agree with Dalamari, I pretty much failed here lol.

 

[bam23]

holy crap, you guys go through a lot of trouble to additionalize songs to your ipoops.

i simply plug my ipoop in, prompting a program known as 'iTunes' to open, click my little ipoop icon under 'Devices' on the left side, then drag songs to that big list, eject when finished. i dunno what all this talk about creating a new playlist or windows explorerfyer is.

 

[Ennui]

i don't sync my ipod automatically so all i do is connect it, open itunes, and drag whatever i want from my library onto the ipod icon

 

[Stigmata]

Can't you just access the iPod's drive through My Computer? My Zen comes up as a storage device, and I just drag my music folder from my F: drive to my Zen, takes maybe a minute.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

ipod has different crap in there, can't drag and drop there.

 

[Stigmata]

That's stupid. But I guess that goes without saying, since this is an iPod we're talking about.