43. Use a Large iTunes Library with a Small iPodBEFORE YOU BEGIN 4 Connect Your iPod for the First Time 42 Transfer Your Music to Your iPod SEE ALSO 44 Autofill Your iPod Shuffle 48 Transfer Only Preferred Music to the iPod Your iTunes Library increases in size as you acquire more music; your iPod, however, is a fixed size and can hold only a certain maximum amount of music. There might come a time, either because your iPod is an older model or because you've got a truly vast collection of music, that you won't be able to fit all the music you own onto the iPod using the automatic, zero-effort sync process. Perhaps that day is today. You have several options for dealing with a situation in which your iTunes Library has outgrown your iPod. One is to do it all manuallyinstead of iTunes synchronizing all your music by itself, it shows the iPod as another item in the Source pane to which you can drag choice tracks from the library, just as though the iPod were a playlist . Another, more versatile method is to choose certain playlists that you want to synchronize ; with the clever use of Smart Playlists , you can use fill up the iPod with just enough automatically chosen music to suit your tastes. NOTE This task is intended for owners of hard-disk -based iPods; if you have an iPod shuffle, skip to 44 Autofill Your iPod Shuffle .
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