Well, there are reasons other than analness (anality?) to update manually, like, say, if you have a library of 100 Gb and a 30 Gb iPod.  Which isn't to say iTunes won't give you options to automatically update, but yeah, isn't it better to know what you've got?

----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Cagle 
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:26 pm
Subject: Re: dave's ipod question
To: audities@smoe.org

> Right - this is the way I've always done it because I want control
> over what's on the ipod. Go ahead, call me anal :).
> 
> - Greg
> 
> plattc@optonline.net wrote:
> > Or you can do it all manually. That is, make sure your iPod isn't
> > set to sync to iTunes automatically, and you'd have to drag 
> and drop
> > each library onto your iPod. It sounds more daunting than it really
> > is. And as long as all the tags are the same, it wouldn't 
> double-up
> > tracks that exist in each library.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee Elliott Date: 
> Wednesday, June
> > 13, 2007 10:53 am Subject: Re: dave's ipod question To:
> > audities@smoe.org
> > 
> >> I will only put changes to your iTunes library on the iPod - 
> it 
> >> keeps them in sync.
> >> 
> >> If you attach the iPod to your computer at home it will say 
> that 
> >> the iPod is synced with a different computer and give you the
> >> choice to sync to the home computer instead - if you agree to do
> >> that - it will wipe out your iPod and load all the songs from home.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -- Lee Elliott
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Greg Cagle
> gregc at gregcagle dot com
>