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20gig iPod with a 10gig iBook?
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Still considering a 2G 20gig iPod, but my iBook only has a 10gig drive in it, and obviously there's more on that than music. If I had the iPod, I'd rip my whole CD collection down, but how could I make playlists for stuff that isn't on my iBook? Can the iBook see songs on the iPod and create playlists for them? Okay, so here's where the on-the-go playlists might be real nice. Workable?
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Nov 2000
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As long as you set the iPod to manual instead of automatically updating, you can move MP3s there and delete them from your computer. So you could have 20GBs of music ok. Playlists and everything should be fine -- you can create playlists on the iPod whether or not the songs on on the computer.
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I'm confused.
Playlists and everything should be fine -- you can create playlists on the iPod whether or not the songs on on the computer.
Am i just thinking too hard about this? On the iBook, I can create playlists out of songs that are only on the 2G iPod?
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Ask yourself two questions: will you always have just 10 gigs of space? Nope, probably not.
Could the iPod double as external hd? Yes it can. You can even edit video with it!
Go for it. You never have enough space (trust me, 30 gig in my iBook + 20 gig iPod vs. DV videos).
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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Oh, no argument about the space. I know you can never really have enough. It'd just be real frustrating to have music on the iPod that I can't really manage. You can't dump music down from the iPod to a computer, right? So I couldn't even copy things to the iBook, make playlists, then send them back to the iPod. Guess I could burn CDs of all the MP3s I put on the iPod, but then I kinda might as well buy an MP3/CD player, which I'd like to avoid so that I'm not juggling CDs, searching through everything.
These are my guesses from what I've read. If you've got an iPod and can tell me otherwise, well please do. 
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Get yourself a larger drive for the iBook. Its not all that hard to install.
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I'd like to, but I don't have that much cash to throw. Rather put it towards a new desktop anyway, I think.
Outta luck, then?
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When you say "make playlists" what do you mean? In the original post you didn't mention anything about burning CDs (which you can't do with music only on the iPod) but you can make playlists just fine for music that is only on the iPod.
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Actually, poling through ipodlounge.com, it looks like I can do all that stuff just fine. Now it's really just about plunking the $$ down.
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