iPad + iPhone on one iTunes

[tiger roach]

Since I am already planning to get an iPad for our household, I am wondering how iTunes on a Mac or PC handles being the home base for more than one device.

Surely some of you out there already have experience with this situation from having an iPhone and an iPod or similar arrangement, and I assume iTunes is built for it. I would appreciate hearing from you on how that works out. Is it easy to set up with the newer second device? Can you have the entire music library on one device, and just certain selected items on another?

Obviously I am hoping to hear things like, "yeah, no problem it works great." But if there are issues I'd rather hear about them now.

TIA

 

[clayneal]

yeah, no problem it works great. Sorry but thats the truth. As for as your whole library , well that would of course be determined by the storage size of the device and the size of you library.

Clay

 

[tiger roach]

Excellent. Thanks Clay.

 

[MYmacROX]

We have 2 iPods registered with both of our computers (Dell WinXP, MBP SL). Works fine on both. When you plug it in or sync it and open iTunes, it will show up on the left and you can manage it however you prefer. And I'm sure you know that you can either sync your device or manually manage your content. iTunes remembers your preferences on a device-by-device basis. So if you already have an iPod, iTouch, or iPhone set up with your computer, now you'll have another device (iPad) set up. I don't even know if it's possible to have iTunes recognize more than one device at a time. I've never tried it out of fear of screwing things up. *shrug*

 

[tiger roach]

Just as I was hoping, thanks.





Is it April yet?

 

[crashtested]

I have my iPod Nano & my iPhone connected to iTunes with no problems.

 

[MYmacROX]

I have my iPod Nano & my iPhone connected to iTunes with no problems.

Simultaneously?? (just curious)

 

[fleurya]

Is it April yet?

Are we going to have to get Butters to bury you in the snow?

 

[crashtested]

/me looks... umm yeah they are both listed, simultaneously

 

[Nighthawk4]

I have about 8 or 9 iPods of various ages, plus an iPhone.

I don't actually connect more than one at a time, but they are all recognised by iTunes when they connect.