IPod Tips

Ipod tips and tricks to manage iPod songs playlist, How to use iPod troubleshooting.

Ipod tips to Rename iPod.

Open iTunes application.
Select iPod from source list.
Click iPod name again.
Type new name and press enter.
Your work has done. You have changed iPod name. You can also change iPhone name using iTunes.

Ipod Tips to manage songs and playlist.

Open iTunes.
In the source, you will find your iPod.
Open iPod properties.

In the summary tab,
You will find options to "Manually manage music" or not. Consider two option as below mentioned.

1)Automatically updating all songs and play lists on .

in Automatic Update mode, when you synchronize iPod with PC. Any modifications to playlists in iTunes will be precisely copied onto iPod. Similarly when you synchronize iPhone with iTunes, it will copy iTunes music library to iPhone.

2)Manually manage music on iPod iPhone.

If you select to manually manage music, You need to manually select and drag the songs from computer to iPod icon in the iTunes source list. The tracks in the song list no longer appear greyed-out .

Ipod tips for smart playlists.

  You have collection of thousand songs in your iPod. It will be time consuming to classify them. ITunes has facility to automatically arrange music playlist.

Open file >> new smart playlist. They can group song on the basic of the same artist or song released year. Smart Playlists have a different icon to the normal playlist icon.

How to edit iTunes smart playlist.

Right-click on any of Smart Playlists and select Edit Smart Playlist. You can find the criteria used for selecting songs in smart playlist.

IPod tips for How to use your iPod as a hard disk.

You can use iPod in three way.

1)Automatically update all your songs and playlist.

In this mode iTunes have total control of iPod. When you connect your iPod to computer, iTunes automatically update all the tracks and playlist to iPod. If you have many changes to iTunes playlist. And during this iPod data transfer, if iPod display massage that “do not disconnect” on iPod screen. As if you remove iPod during the data transfer can damage your files.

• 2) Manually manage music.
In this mode you need to manually transfer all songs and playlist from computer to iPod. So you have some control over iTunes.

• 3) Enable disk use.

In disk use mode, you can again transfer data to iPod at any time. (Automatic update may or may not be disabled while in this mode). IPod will warn you all the time in later two mode with display massage that “do not disconnect” on iPod screen.

Ultimate fix for iPod repairing.

If iPod is in a very bad condition, iPod is not being detected by iTunes or displaying the dreaded "folder" or "sad iPod" icons. You have tried all iPod basic troubleshooting I mentioned. You have no success to solve the problem. 

Here is another solution for iPod repair.

 We delete everything in iPod and reinstall the iPod software. This will solve iPod software problem.

To erase iPod in windows xp. you can use it on windows 10 also.

Open my computer.
You will find iPod drive.
Right click on iPod and choose “Format”.
Press start on open windows.

To erase iPod in MAC OS X.

• In OSX, in the Applications/Utilities folder, You can find disk utilities.
• In the Disk Utility window, select your iPod and press repair button.
• Select erase this option, it will erase iPod disk.

After doing all this you need to restore iPod according to iPod model.