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Bill H
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iPod/iTunes questions

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I have a new iPod, never had one before. It's an 8gB Nano. Because I'm an old guy it took me about 2 minutes to learn how to use it. (I think a pre-teen is born knowing how to, a teen learns in 5 seconds.) This is really cool technology.

Anyway, I loaded iTunes on my computer and am transferring music from CD's like crazy and I have a couple questions.

Is it better to let it do the full synchronization thing, or manage manually? So far the synch goes pretty fast, but what happens after I get a lot of music on there? Does it recopy the ones that are already there?

The bigger issue is that now both IE and Firefox are using Quicktime to play mpg/mpeg/avi files. How the heck do I get them to stop that and use Windows Media Player again. I went to the Quicktime and unchecked the box that says "have browser use Quicktime to play movie files" and I have Windows Media Player set in the Windows File Explorer "file types" tab for those three file types. The Firefox "file types" box under "downloads" is empty and I cannot find a way to add a file type to it.

Any help?
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

Full sync is best. It only syncs changes, and at that it is pretty fast. Even when I download 100's of MB's of music and Podcasts, it only takes a few minutes to get everything into my iPod.

As for the software that runs apps, I think you might need to mess with your file associations.
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Post by Bill H »

Thanks. I kind of suspected it might just upload changes.

My file associations all read Windows Media Player, and a doubleclick on the file uses WMP, but IE and Firefox both use Quicktime.
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