Manually Managing an iPod in iTunes 5

September 22, 2005 9:40 AM

I have iTunes 5 installed on two machines, one at work, one at home, with my iPod set to sync automatically to the iTunes library on my home machine. When using iTunes 4.x, I was able to attach my iPod to my work machine and then configure the iPod (in the iTunes preferences) to 'manually' update, rather than automatically, enabling me to play files directly off my iPod on my work machine. When I returned to my home machine, I would switch the home machine's iTunes/iPod settings back to 'update automatically', causing iTunes to update the files on the home machine with a new Last Played date and Play Count. iTunes 5, however, seems to have a bug in this regard: it notes a random 10 or 15-song selection of tracks played via the work machine's iTunes 5, but that's all. A day's worth of listening to tracks isn't logged as played, messing up Smart Playlists that grab music I haven't heard in a while. 1) Is this unusual or universal 2) Any fixes?

Attribution moment: I'd just like to note I'm essentially reposting a question someone posed elsewhere that went unanswered. The original poster and I are having the same issue.

posted by boombot to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Is this the post you're referring to?
posted by pmbuko at 1:42 PM on September 22, 2005

No, what I'm doing is temporarily un-syncing. I re-sync every night. My post was pulled out of a Macintouch comment.
posted by boombot at 2:31 PM on September 22, 2005

Have you upgraded both machines to iTunes 5.0.1?
posted by lambchop1 at 3:58 PM on September 22, 2005

I have, yes. No change.
posted by boombot at 5:19 PM on September 22, 2005