[koshercuts]

I have an iPod photo & Shuffle and use them
with the latest versions of iTunes, both on a
Dell PC and a Mac G5. The problem happens
when I fill one player with songs and then
connect into a different system to add additional
music. I am prompted to clear all songs or leave
the playlist as is. If I choose leave the playlist as
is, then no iPod icon shows up and there is no
way to add additional songs to the existsing
playlist. Is this a cross-platform conundrum or
can anyone advise a solution? thanks.

[icruise]

Turn on manual updating.

[koshercuts]

how?

[icruise]

In the iTunes iPod preferences. Instead of syncing with your whole library or a few playlists, the iPod will be like a disk that you manually drag the songs into. That's the only way to use it with more than one computer.

[kes601]

I was looking at Apple's knowledge base because I was experiencing the same issue. From what I found, you can only use the iPod w/more than one computer if it is the same platform. So, you can use it on 2 or more Windows machines or 2 or more Mac machines, but you can't mix and match.

[icruise]

No that's not true. I've verified this by using my iPod with both my Mac and Windows boxes. The iPod needs to be Windows formatted for this to work, however.