Oh, I do, but if it's not fully charged you still have to wait. It just doesn't make sense to me that you can't access that tab when it's not connected.

Of course, I understand very few of the design choices made with iTunes/iPod.

I especially hate the wheel, so I'm constantly swtiching which playlists I load to keep them to a minimum.

You can in fact do two separate libraries, Dana. Drew does it to keep his music and sound effects separate. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do it, and Drew is on a cruise ship right now.

Dana,

can you tell us which you would prefer to do:

a) manage two separate itunes libraries

b) manage your ipods separately?

I can post links for "a" if you want them. I think there is info above for "b"

Hold down Option while launching iTunes and you get the option to choose a library. It's pretty easy actually.

Same thing to create a new library?

Manage two separate iTunes libraries. I am the only one with an iPod.

I also like automatic syncing, and don't want to have to set up a playlist to manage what goes on the iPod. Maybe I forgot to mention that a crucial factor here is our inherent laziness.

Hold down Option while launching iTunes and you get the option to choose a library.

Is that Ctrl on a PC?

When you hold option down while launching, it pops up with a "Quit, Create Library, Choose Library" buttons.

Not sure what Win button combo is. Possibly Alt.

Dana,

Here is a cheap shareware program that manages multiple libraries if you don't want to hit the button each time:

[link]

Is that Ctrl on a PC?

I think Omnis is right, that it's Alt on a PC. Ctrl is usually the key you swap out for Command on a Mac.

Awesome. I will try that once we get iTunes up and running on the computer. Thanks, all.