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dancrane2 · Feb 21, 2003, 09:30 PM

So I am in the process of ripping ALL of the CD's I own. So far I am on 66 CD's and have exceeded the capacity of a 5GB iPod. I have about 10 percent of my collection ripped.

I am planning on buying an iPod soon (after the new models are released in the next week or so).

So what would happen if I had 21gb of Music in iTunes and only a 20gb iPod? Where does it cut off? Is it alphabetical, is it cut off by burn date?

What will happen? Am I forced to buy or wait for a 40gb iPod?

Any and all help or experience with this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

dampeoples · Feb 21, 2003, 09:39 PM

In my experience, it will not begin the transfer unless there is enough space free on the iPod. Granted, I tried this last March when I first got mine. You would need to deselect the songs/playlists that you did not want transferred until you had enough space on the iPod

OldManMac · Feb 22, 2003, 12:39 AM

Do you have inside info on new iPods?

dampeoples · Feb 22, 2003, 12:44 AM

Originally posted by KarlG:
Do you have inside info on new iPods?

heh, I didn't catch that part

G4ME · Feb 22, 2003, 09:31 AM

when i fist got my 5 gig i had 6 gigs on my mac, i poped up and said that there wasn't enough room so i either had to select playlists, or manualy update my ipod.

right now i have it selected to update on my playlists, i have one playlist that is about 4.5 gigs big that i can add or delete songs and that will do it on the ipod, a sort of music partion that i can update

CatOne · Feb 22, 2003, 02:05 PM

Originally posted by dancrane2:
So I am in the process of ripping ALL of the CD's I own. So far I am on 66 CD's and have exceeded the capacity of a 5GB iPod. I have about 10 percent of my collection ripped.

I am planning on buying an iPod soon (after the new models are released in the next week or so).

So what would happen if I had 21gb of Music in iTunes and only a 20gb iPod? Where does it cut off? Is it alphabetical, is it cut off by burn date?

What will happen? Am I forced to buy or wait for a 40gb iPod?

Any and all help or experience with this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

It'll say "there's not enough room on the iPod for automatic updating, you must manually update." IMO manual is nicer anyway -- I've created some auto playlists (rated my 10,000 songs) and I copy them over. I almost always play my iPod on random (riding my bike, I can't see it), and I don't like all 10,000 songs I have so I wouldn't want them all on there ;-)

ryju · Feb 22, 2003, 03:48 PM

Originally posted by KarlG:
Do you have inside info on new iPods?

did you read thinksecret or any of the other ipod related threads here? the rumours are all over the place...

Twiztidlojik · Feb 22, 2003, 07:38 PM

There's a clip I have on my iDisk, somewhere (my mac's not working at the moment >

and this guy is saying "I've got a 20 GB, he's got a 40 GB" and he's holding up his iPod.

Eh? Eh?

It was from the Osbournes DVD, by the way.

dtriska · Feb 22, 2003, 09:56 PM

Originally posted by Twiztidlojik:
There's a clip I have on my iDisk, somewhere (my mac's not working at the moment > and this guy is saying "I've got a 20 GB, he's got a 40 GB" and he's holding up his iPod.

Eh? Eh?

It was from the Osbournes DVD, by the way.

http://www.appleturns.com/scene/?id=3912