How to use and manage multiple iPods on one Mac (Snow Leopard included)?
Have several iPods or iPhones in your family and want to manage them on one Mac, even simultaneously? Or you want to share the music and movies with your family conveniently? You will find answers in this article.
This article includes two parts:
- Part 1. Use and manage multiple iPods on one Mac OS X
- Part 2. Manage and share some of your favorite songs or video with your family
Part 1.To use and manage multiple iPods on one Mac OS X, you can
1. Set different user accounts if you want to have separate iTunes library.
2. Create different iTunes playlists for particular iPod if you don't mind sharing the same iTunes library within the whole family.
3. Create a separate iTunes library for each iPod. Note: This method includes more than 10 steps, which is kind of complicated and troublesome; you can refer to below for more convenient and easy method.
Part 2.Want to manage and share some of your favorite songs or video with your family?
SyncPod is an easy-to-use program that can help you transfer your songs and videos to Mac, and in reverse. You can easily copy iPod songs and movies to Mac and then transfer them to iPhone /iPod without erasing iPhone/iPod original files, saving you hassle of changing the settings on your Mac.
Step 1: Click here to download Intel version of SyncPod.
Step 2 After you install the app, launch SyncPod and then connect iPods or iPhones to Mac.
Click "Music" or "Movies" playlist and then tick the file you want to export.
Step 3: Click "iPod To Mac" to start transferring
Step 4: Select a destination folder to save your iPod music and videos and click "OK"
Step 5: Import iPod files to iPhone.
Drag the output folder of you iPod content the other iPhone/iPod directly or click "Mac to iPod" to import iPod files to iPhone.
With this app, you can now manage and share iPod/iPhone music and videos with your family conveniently on one Mac OS X. SyncPod supports iPhone 3GS, iPhone OS 3.1, iPod touch upgrade to 3.1, and the new iPod nano, new iPod classic, new iPod shuffle and new iTouch.
