Last week, Swedish music streaming service Spotify revealed it plans to rival Apple by giving all of its users the ability to manage the tracks stored on their iPods.
Use the music streaming service to manage your music
Spotify users that connect an iPod classic, iPod nano or iPod shuffle to their PC, will find it appears in the new 'devices' section in the Spotify sidebar. From here, users can sync tracks and playlists stored on their PC with their device.
"Now everyone can own their favourite Spotify playlists to take wherever they want. Heading out for a run or off on a trip? Buying the songs you want to hear has never been quicker, easier or more affordable," said Spotify CEO Daniel Ek at the time.
If you're an avid fan of the music-streaming service and want to manage your music on your iPod using the service, it's really simple to implement. Here's how.
Step one
You'll need to make sure you have the latest version of Spotify installed on your PC. If not head to Spotify's website and download the app. Once installed launch the Spotify app on your PC
Step two
Connect your iPod to your PC using the cable it come bundled with. Once connected, your iPod will appear under the devices tab on the left-hand side of the screen.
Step three
Select 'Erase your iPod & Sync this iPod with Spotify' to wipe your iPod and use Spotify to transfer the tracks stored on your PC onto your iPod. Once complete you can elect to manually manage your music every time the device is connected by selecting "Manually choose playlist to sync" when the device is connected.
Comments
Jim Turner said: No thanks
Jarek Mordoc said: if you wanna make sure you get all your music though 10000 is a lot of music you can try using audials tunebite it basically records music from spotify and converts it to several audio formats so that you can use it on multiple devices apple devices are also included it will take a while though if you have huge playlists like that but you know you dont risk losing your music httpaudialscomenhowtor
Spotify-is a bitch said: Hey Guys stop trying The reason why is doing that is Spotify wouldnt let you sync the songs that you took from their software online and sync to offline for you to play around you have to a Premium member to get access to does songs but they sync the sound you had downloaded and stored on your computer Stop wasting your times
Tyler Wilson said: its the 3rd generation nano by the way someone answer this for me because im way beyondfrustrated
Tyler Wilson said: now i have a compaq laptop and i lost my music and i couldnt find any music websites to download onto my ipod but then i found this spotify so i made three large play lists using spotifys search bar at the top then just dragging them to a playlist to get the songs then i plugged my ipod in to get all the new music downloaded but after i plugged it in it said i could only sync it to the local files folder thing but i dont have any songs in it at all but i have these three large play lists is there anyway for me to sync those play lists onto my ipod
Mad2line said: i syncd my playlist music but it only syncd some of the freakn playlist the rest went in the local files thingy im annoyed ive been tryn to figure it out for 3 hrs its pissn me off why is it doing this n e 1 knw
Kellanjones said: its only syncing my local files anybody know how to get everything on there
Sam said: This is pissing me off Its doing the same thing to me as it has to you guys I do not understand whatsoever as to what is happening FML
P2atr2 said: This function is design by a retard Why have a destructive function that erase everything on the ipod pop up as a default function Spotyfy behave more like a aggresive virus than a program and rips off both customers and the artist who are payed next to nothing
Ian Flores said: its only syncing my local files anybody know how to get everything on there
Carrie-Ann Skinner said: Sorry Katinkasg cable syncing only works for iPod classic nano or shuffle All others inc the touch you have to use the app and wirelessly sync
Katinkasg said: but what if i dont have wireless internet available only through cable how can i then sync my ipod touch with spotify is that not possible reply ASAP i need to know quickly thanks
klaus said: with ipod touch u have to connect the ipod to the same internet as ur comuter and run spotify and it will show up as a device
Eirik said: Same thing happened to me right now Could not be more pissed of at the moment Please tell me you found out what to do
Simon Chadderton said: yes i did all of the above i had 10000 tracks on my i-pod now i have 611 not sure what happened to the other 9500everytime i try to re sync the green bvar light up and syncing1 of 8670 appears the sync logo starts spinning2-3 mins later it stopsI HAVE DONE THIS TWICE AND GONE FROM 417 TRACKS TO 550 TRACKS TO 611 ETCmy external hard drive was also running as i backed up all my i-tunes onto this when i select a track now from i-tunes library it says unable to locate trackhave i just lost all my music