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hi i've just bought my girlfriend an ipod, now we only have one computer and our musical tastes are completely diffrent. i just plugged hers in and all my stuff has downloaded on to it, question 1 how do i get it off and question 2 how do we have to seperate librarys without our stuff downloading onto each others ipods. help needed cheers!!

Just look through the iTunes settings and choose the options to upload songs to iPod manually.

Create a playlist for you and one for your girlfriend, then just drag and drop the songs from the main library to the playlist of choice.

When you plug in an iPod you can just drag and drop whichever playlist you want to the iPod. So 'Jasons Playlist' is dragged into you're iPod.

I have playlists for my nano, a 20gig iPod, my girlfriends nano, and my young niece's shuffle.

If you are using XP then you can set up two "identities"

Go into "Control Panel" and choose "User Accounts" then "Create a new account".

Give the account a name (her name) and make her an Administrator.

Next time you start Windows you will get a welcome screen and a chance to log on as the original user or the new user.

Windows stores the files and settings for each user in different places (different folders) so you should each be able to have your own "environment".

You could each have your own e-mail settings, desktop background and so on.

and sam can i have my music seperated into the artists that way still? like seperate playlists for the kings of leon and oasis?

and how do i upload manually what menu is it under just looking there and can\t find it

Well it's changed with the new software updates since I did it last.

Plug in your iPod and the window pops up within itunes showing you the summery. If a pop up appears asking you if you want to automatically sync your iPod just unchack it.

Otherwise, unchack the option in the summery window and make sure you tick the 'Manually manage music' box.

Also, using playlists doesn't affect how the iPod software categorises songs. You will still be able to browse by album/song name/artist/genre etc.

Why did I misspell 'uncheck'.......twice?

cheers sam sorted it out, sorry to be a pest but i've got another question! i'm using windows millenium, now this is a video ipod i've got an mpg4 clip on my comp which is the right format i'm trying to put it on by dragging and dropping it into the movie playlist and it seems to be letting m,e but when i let go of the button it doesn't stay there any ideas?

I don't know what you mean.

Are you trying to drag and drop a movie file from the video playlist in iTunes onto your iPod?

don't worry mate sorted it cheers for your help!