Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2007

In article
<jimmi3REMOVE-319B08.11220114122007@johnf2.biosci.ohio-state.edu>,

I'm not quite sure what your question is...or why you can't get a
definitive answer from an "Apple dealer" unless it's not an actual Apple
Store.  But there should be no conflict of any kind.

If he doesn't have his PC with him and you want to load songs on it from
your Mac while he's there, it'll work just fine.  When he gets back home
to his PC, he may get a warning about the iPod being synced up with a
different iTunes library, but it'll still let him use it.  The only
potential issue is that he may not be able to get the music off of it
and into his iTunes library without some third party software.

In article
<jimmi3REMOVE-319B08.11220114122007@johnf2.biosci.ohio-state.edu>,

I don't see what conflict you're referring to.  You give him the iPod,
he plugs it into his PC.  Windows iTunes may want to reformat it before
he can put music on it; that's no problem, just let iTunes do what it
needs to do.

I don't know how your copy of iTunes on your Mac comes into this at all.

In article
<jimmi3REMOVE-319B08.11220114122007@johnf2.biosci.ohio-state.edu>,

I can't add to the discussions of "What conflict?" that have already
been posted, but I'll just ask "Are you and your son going to have
identical iTunes libraries?"  The model the iPod uses is that the iTunes
library is the master copy.  With _TWO_ iTunes libraries trying to sync
the iPod, I wonder what will happen to all the music he puts on the iPod
from your iTunes library when he connects it with his machine's iTunes
library.  

This isn't about the purchased songs which won't transfer, AFAIK.  It's
about his machine not seeing the MP3 files in his iTunes library, then
deleting them from the iPod.  This will probably not make him a happy
camper.  If his windows system is a laptop, make sure he brings it with
him so you can use it to do the music transfer.