Adjusting my iTunes

When inserting my relatively new 4G iPod into iTunes on my PowerBook, I turned down its offer to synch up the songs on the two devices. Even so, I still could not play my iPod through my computer like I used to. I thought at first that there might be some “feature” in the newer iPod that was causing it. Still, I decided to prowl through iTunes 4.7’s Preferences to see if changing some setting might restore that functionality.

iTunes defaults to automatic synchronization of songs on the host computer with any inserted iPod. Because of that, it deselects the iPod even though it mounts it. Changing the iPod Preference from automatic synchronization to “Manually manage songs and playlists” in iTunes/Preferences/iPod/Music made the iPod a 3d icon again and gave me computer access to its songs. If that hadn’t worked, I might have been convinced that Apple had gone too far…