How to Put Music on an iPod Classic, Mini, Nano, and Shuffle
Make sure you have iTunes installed on your computer and have added music to your iTunes library. You can get music by ripping songs from CDs, downloading it from the internet, and buying it at online stores like the iTunes Store, among other means.
How to Put Music on an iPhone or iPod Touch
The early iPods were all limited to syncing with iTunes, but that’s not the case with the iPhone and iPod touch. Because those devices can connect to the internet and can run apps, they have many more options for adding music.
Entire Music Library does what it says. It syncs all the music in your iTunes library to your iPod (space permitting).Sync Selected playlists, artists, and genres allows you to choose the music that goes on your iPod using those categories. Check the boxes next to the items you want to sync.Include music videos syncs any music videos in your iTunes library to your iPod (assuming it can play video).
This begins the process of syncing songs to your iPod. How long it takes depends on how many songs you’re downloading. When syncing is complete, you have successfully added music to your iPod.
iPods Sync With iTunes, Not iCloud
The iPod Classic, iPod Mini, iPod Nano, and iPod Shuffle don’t have an internet connection of their own. When you want to put media on them, you use the iTunes program on your desktop or laptop computer to download songs to the iPod, using a process called syncing, not iCloud. These iPods don’t support streaming music services like Spotify or Apple Music. When you connect your iPod to a computer running iTunes, you can add almost any music and—depending on the model you have—other content such as video, podcasts, photos, and audiobooks that’s on that computer to the iPod.
