Help me with iPod and iTunes please!

2. select the duplicate songs, right click and select "clear".

3. Do the same as above, but select & delete the songs when you have your ipod selected on the left side of the screen.

don't erase songs from your library as your method of choosing what to sync. i'd recommend either

- create a special playlist (or more, if desired) for your ipod syncing. when the pod is plugged in, you'll get an icon in the lower right corner for ipod options - within those menus you can choose what playlists to sync.

or

- use the checkmark system to determine what to sync. this is also a checkbox within the ipod options. "sync only checked files" or something. keep in mind that the checkmarks effect every playlist & the library. i.e. if you uncheck something on a playlist, it also unchecks it in the library and everywhere else.

that's why i go with #1 - i use the checks to "turn off" songs which i don't really want to hear at this time (if i put it on random, say)

you are going to have to take the time to do a major cleaning of id tags in order for itunes and your ipod to work really well. sucks but it's worth it! itunes is actually a pretty good tool for tag editing. you can edit bunches of songs at once, where applicable, by highlighting them and rightclick --> get info

HIT IT WITH TRUNCHEON.

this ephpod thing is weird, i don't think i had uninstalled it when i put itunes on here, but didn't have this problem of it showing up

that used to happen to me a lot in ephpod, though i haven't seen it yet in itunes. but yes, it had to do with tags

Can't remember where the option for Restore is (except that you do it on the computer, not the iPod) and it's probably different on a PC anyway.

When I attempt to import/rip tracks into iTunes, the resulting mp3s are choppy. When I do the same with other software, the results are fine.

This problem might not be completely tied to iTunes, though -- I just noticed that the sound is also choppy when I'm listening to mp3s off otherwise fine data CDRs.

Any ideas? I've had all other applications and whatnot closed out while doing this, so I know it doesn't come down to having too much stuff running at the same time.

It started just the other day. Everything was smooth until then.

I've had this problem while running no other apps.

Does it happen with every CD?

It has happened with the four or five that I've attempted to import/rip since the problem first started.

And I do think that the issue goes beyond iTunes, since playing an mp3 off a data CDR through Windows Media Player gives me the choppiness as well. HOWEVER, if I copy an mp3 off a data CDR and PLAY THAT through WMP, the sound is fine.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Yes teeny, you can drag and drop if you want, but iTunes works with this thing called a Library, which makes life great in so many ways, but it's kind of a pain if you just want to listen to something other than an audio CD just temporarily.

It is lame if it doesn't show up as a playlist. Maybe you have to have a playlist burned onto the cd?

Otherwise, use some other MP3 playing program ...

-- N. (nickdastoo...), May 21st, 2004.

O.T.M.

I love iTunes 'cept for this one issue. I would rather try and fix it.

(x-post)

And Adam continues to be a weirdo -- I just grabbed a CD of AACs that I burned a while back (in iTunes) and it's letting me play them, in iTunes, off the CD, just like Adam was hoping it would. So I thnk he's hiding whatever his real problem is.

It doesn't work with burned DVDs, apparently, though.

http://www.dotpod.net/

It stems from the fact that I've only got about 13GB of available memory on my laptop for my iTunes library, so if I want to fill more than a third of my iPod I've got to delete stuff from the library to put more stuff in there, and then manually transfer stuff over to the iPod rather than use the default automatic transfer.

This is fine (even if it's a bit more of a pain), but the problem is that I've already deleted a load of stuff from the library, and iTunes is still set to automatically sync with the iPod when it's connected up (which will obviously then delete all the tunes from the iPod which I've deleted from the library).

According to the manual you change the setting to manually transfer stuff by selecting the iPod in the Source list and then changing it. The problem is, it's got to be connected up to do this.

There must be a way of changing the setting to manually transfer songs without losing half of what's on the iPod at the moment, but I don't know what it is.

Please can anyone help?

Pleasant Plains, I could try that, but if it doesn't let me stop it then I'm fucked. But if you're confident it will let me then I could give that a go.

I'm just being a bit cautious as it'd mean having to reload about 100 albums if I mess it up.

But surely there must be a risk-free alternative way of doing it?

I am not confident it will let you. Oh, I wouldn't need that kind of guilt.

Hopefully that'll mean I can avoid Pleasant Plains' slightly riskier option.

Pet peeve alert:

MEMORY is not the same as a HARD DRIVE.

Context clues are your friend, but still... It's really not rocket science.

Sorry for the brief interruption.

No, but it is computer science, and that's tricky enough.

hah, that's one of my pet peeves as well, everyone at my fucking office makes that mistake

Heheh... On the other hand, I wouldn't call iTunes "computer science," but then I'm a little bit of a computer elitist.

xpost

2 choices.

the new itunes has a feature to mark albums as compilations, and then it will not list every artist separately.

OR

you can list the artist as "Various Artists" and put the artist AND song title where song title usually goes. that's my workaround, works good for the ipod. nothing i hate more than random comp artists strewn all over the place.

When you enter/download the tag info, there's a flag for comps. (It's a checkbox in the iTunes interface for "is part of a compilation.")

If that flag is true, iTunes notes the track number (X of Y) based on the compilation title. So if you display your collection by album, the comp tracks will be in the right order even if that means the artist names aren't alphabetical.

As far as I know you can still order tracks by artist and have the comp split up and show up listed under the individual artists by track if you want. Setting the flag just lets iTunes keep track of which tracks belong to which comps when you organize by album.

If you don't like what you see while it's loading, just hit the "stop" button at the top of your browser. :-)

also, describing something similar to you, maybe? http://tandoku.com/2004/February/the.ipod.is.clicking.and.whirring.php

NB: i am so not the best person to advise you on this, i've just had to force quit mine a couple times, and can't remember the key pattern to do it off the top of my head.

(xpost)

good luck!

glad to hear it sorted itself out though :)

But don't press UP, UP, and X at the same time, or all you will do will be to unlock the tiger costume worn by Gorgar.

I bought an ipod in America a couple of weeks ago, and started importing songs there.

Now I'm back in the UK, at what will be the only PC I'm gonna be using with the ipod in the future. Itunes asked me if I want to sync it's library with my ipod, and I clicked 'no' because I didn't know if that means it will remove everything that's already on the ipod. Would it? Do I have to have the files on this PC to keep them on the ipod?

Sharepod is a free one.

I have a large music collection. I store much of it on a large cumbersome drive. I also like to drop PHAT BEATZ FOR DANCING sometimes. I do not wanna lug a 5 pound disk thingee with 30 gigs of Dead Kennedys boots just so I can play LCD Soundsystem crap for clueless college idiots. iTunes very happily lets me add stuff to my library while keeping it in the original location. However, is there a good way to move whole albums to what amounts to a second iTunes Library directory tree on my internal hard disk?

plus it would be nice to have Artist folders wrapping all of them

maybe I need to learn applescript? :/

Or they might have something else that can help you out.

oh shit dog!

what's worse is that it copies them if the dest folder is on a different volume

Ok solution:

move artist folder to internal disk from external
drag folder from int disk into iTunes
stuff should import ok -- sometimes long / weird song titles get mangled when reconstructing db info from the file
sort by "time added to itunes"
delete old entries from library

not too bad!

my solution = winnar

weird, about 1/3 of !!! mp3s had broken id3 tags

Works like a fucking charm dude! it will prompt to find missing files but you can just hit cancel...

I AM TEH SMART

I wish I could figure out the bonared ID3 problem though....

i made some really good mixes for myself on my ancient office imac, using itunes. i didn't consider the fact that the imac will not connect to the ipod. i tried putting the songs on a zip disk and connecting the drive to my ibook, but the ibook won't recognize the files. itunes help doesn't seem to cover this. i'm getting really frustrated! it's not a big deal, but i'd rather not lose the music (a good amount of the stuff was from things since sold). um.. any thoughts?

xpost - k, lemme look into that.

you probably can just fix it by typing in admin password at the bottom of the apple i window

Anyway, it's supposed to be a one-way process only - it synchs with what's in one (and only one) computer. However, there are third-party hacks to get around this if you need to. The same question was asked upthread re:Windows (on Aug 21st). There are equivalents for Mac. Have a look on some shareware site or ipodlounge - shouldn't be too hard to find. I can't recommend any, as I've never had to use one.

How come when I enter change the id3 tag for tunes and enter the album it won't let me start it with a capital letter?!

You just need to trick it into thinking you're typing something else (by, say, all of the title except for the first letter) then go back after you've finished (with the mouse or arrow keys) and adding the first letter.

my screen has started cutting out (wtf?) when I press the play button and also, at other times, when I press the other buttons. any ideas? something loose inside? maybe a bit damp? (it has been raining a lot.)

I've never been convinced that I've been getting anything like 8 hours out of a battery charge. Maybe six, as long as I didn't leave it (asleep) for more than a night.

But I hadn't noticed it deteriorate either. But the last couple of weeks, it seems totally fucked. I charge it up. Sometimes I even disconnect when it says charged and then reconnect, just to be sure it's fully charged. The battery meter says it's full. I use it. After about an hour or so, it's down about a third of the way. Not too bad. But then it just cuts out completely. The 'No battery power remains - please reconnect to computer' message flashes up and that's it.

This can't be regular depletion, can it?

The point is - will getting the battery replaced solve the problem, do you think? Or is this suggestive of some fault with the iPod itself. I don't really understand battery technology - are there individualy cells, many of which might have failed in some way, leaving just one operative or something?

I don't want to waste my money buying a new battery only to find it makes no difference. AAARGH!

The battery meter is never even close to being accurate. Are you listening to playlists or albums? For a reason that would best be described by someone who knew better than I, the battery gets used up much more when listening to any music put into a certain sequential order. (The iPod has spends part of its resources "looking ahead" to cover for any glitches.)

Mine was doing this, too, even after one hour. I realized that some of the ten-minute songs in my hour-long playlists might've been messing with it some. I tried it without the long songs, and it's acted better. I really couldn't tell you if this is going to work in your circumstance, though.

So, um, good luck with that.

I also returned the iTrip because it worked in everyone else's car but mine (shitty FM receiver I guess) and got the cassette adapter instead.

i tried resetting; it wouldn't reset. i disconnected, reconnected, toggled the hold switch, updated the songs -- it didn't make any difference.

any advice, short of restoring the damn thing altogether?

This is actually really bad advice. All I wanted to say was that it happened to me, and it came back to life after a bit of futzing. I couldn't tell you what to do to accompolish this, unfortunately.

Since we originally mentioned that procedure, we've heard from three AtAT viewers who have resuscitated "dead" iPod batteries the same way, based on our suggestion. So it's not just us. Again, it may not work for everybody, but clearly it works for some people. If you've got an iPod that's similarly afflicted, you might consider trying a restore with the latest iPod software updater after running the battery all the way down-- at least before you plunk down $50 for an install-it-yourself battery or $100 for Apple to do it for you.

There is a hack available here to remove the cap > http://www.pochoirs.de/leechs/iMod.zip

Taken from this German site > http://www.pochoirs.de/software_es.htm - the Google translator says that this mod will "Killt the European Laustaerkebeschraenkung iPods. Small and powerfully!"

I'd sniff around some more reliable sites/forums before installing - just to make sure the thing actually works.

yr fucked. yr gonna have to send this to apple. if you are under warranty they will give you a brand new one. sorry man.

ok i take it back. still broken.

And what IS "ipod updating"?

Short answer: yes, you probably need a new battery. You have to send it to Apple, and they'll replace it for $99.

http://homepage.mac.com/paalb/iPod/iPod2.html

My learned method, I didn't make this up and it's from memory so don't beat me:

0. Create a playlist which has all the songs you want/have on the iPod (optional duh)
1. Create a playlist that has nothing in it. NOTHING.
2. tell iTunes that's the playlist you want it to update into the iPod automatically when you plug it in or whatever
3. Do this. Erases all the songs! Awesome.
4. tell iTunes to stop doing that after you verify the iPod is totally blank
5. Refill the iPod using whatever other playlist you like, maybe that one from the optional step above would be a good idea.

See if that doesn't help.

Can't I just use disk utility?

You CAN'T use Disk Utility? It looks like I can.

i couldn't find any settings in the preferences that would tell it to browse other locations

any ideas

Apparently she got it to work last night after much googling and then mucking around in the registry or something (this is on a PC btw, I should have mentioned).

basically, i've got an old ipod that went with my dell laptop. i got an external USB 2.0 harddrive to keep my music on, since my dell didn't have enough space for music. that worked ok.

so now i've got my lovely new powerbook. i've got some music on the powerbook, mostly stuff i've downloaded or ripped, just for my shuffle.

i've been putting off figuring out how to put the music on my powerbook, since i made a mess of it last time. basically, i'd like suggestions on the best way to essentially start from scratch, so it's more organised. i'll be re-formatting the pod this weekend to use it when i'm back in the states, and will need to reinstall all the music.

currently, when i download music, it goes to a soulseek folder, or download folder, depending. even if i drag it to the itunes folder, the music doesn't appear(is that normal? why is that?) i have to highlight newly downloaded songs and drag them into the library while itunes is open. i've got the setting so it copies music to the itunes library folder, but can change it if people suggest it.

i think i'd like to keep most of my music on the external drive, and only use it when i'm updating my pod, which isn't that often. can i add a folder there as a library? can i have a separate library that's just looking at the external drive, so i don't have greyed out songs that i can't listen to most of the time?

hmm. not sure this post makes any sense, but i thought i'd ask for advice before i just start muddling along. i clearly don't understand how itunes works, even though i use it nearly every day. any suggestions for the best way of organising things are welcome, and sorry about the super long post!

I used to have all my stuff on an external HD but I would download to a specific folder in my C: drive. Then I would juste add files and folders with iTunes, which in turn would automatically transfer them to my external HD (where the organized iTunes folder was).

is there any way of having multiple libraries, so i can only look at the library that's on my laptop when i'm not hooked up to the external drive, and another for playing with my pod?

Basically, I haven't done anything to my computer in a while. The only thing that has occurred recently on my computer is:
1) Word processing files added doing work for school.
2) Ripped a CD on saturday night.
3) Upgraded OS to 10.3.9 about a week to two weeks ago (forget exact date)

Suddenly, as of yesterday (remember, OS upgrade was over a week ago and I have used iTunes and plugged in my iPod since then), iTunes does not want to work if my iPod is plugged in. If my iPod is not plugged in, it opens fine. If it is plugged in, it immediately quits. I followed their advice to rebuild the library (with iPod unplugged, obviously, because program wouldn't start with iPod in--I didn't realize at the time that the problem was to do with the status of the iPod though, I ejected it before doing library work), and discovered that SINCE I did that, my iPod was apparently completely wiped the second I plugged it back into the laptop. So not only can I not add songs to my iPod because iTunes won't speak to it, I don't have anything on my iPod anymore, the thing seems to have been reformatted, mysteriously, at some point after I rebuilt the iTunes library.

WTF? This was working as of Saturday (last time I opened iTunes before yesterday--iPod was plugged in at the time and it worked just fine). I have NOT reinstalled iTunes yet, should I do this? Can this actually be related to the system upgrade, I know that has been causing people problems--but like I said, it was working just fine for at least a WEEK after I did the upgrade. No other programs are acting oddly at all, just iTunes. In the event that I can't fix this easily, is there any way to manually add the songs back to my iPod from the finder, without using iTunes? My desktop is recognizing it just fine, but when I open it from the finder there's no longer a clearly marked folder where you'd find music files, it just has the "notes" folder and nothing else and I'm scared to fuck with it.

I'm going to copy/paste the crash report here so more technically astute people can look at it, maybe this will tell something. AFAIK the APE manager is up to date unless there has been something released v. recently. I haven't done anything wrong, the traditional things they tell you not to do like not ejecting the iPod properly or something like that--it just stopped working all of a sudden, yesterday, with no changes to the system whatsoever done on Sunday or Monday at all.

Crash report:
Date/Time: 2005-04-26 16:27:18 -0400
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2

Command: iTunes
Path: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Version: 4.7.1 (4.7.1)
PID: 513
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000130

Thread 0 Crashed:
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4 com.apple.iTunes 0x00281500 dyld_stub_binding_helper + 0x27cfa8
5 com.apple.iTunes 0x0017237c dyld_stub_binding_helper + 0x16de24
6 com.apple.iTunes 0x00281da8 dyld_stub_binding_helper + 0x27d850
7 com.apple.iTunes 0x000044d0 __code_start__ + 0x1b0
8 com.apple.iTunes 0x00004350 __code_start__ + 0x30

Thread 1:
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1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900073f8 mach_msg + 0x38
2 com.unsanity.ape 0xc0002c14 __ape_internal + 0xce4
3 com.unsanity.ape 0xc0001a28 __ape_agent + 0x40
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024910 _pthread_body + 0x28

Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90007878 mach_msg_trap + 0x8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900073f8 mach_msg + 0x38
2 ...lagutin.audio_hijack.server 0x007e929c ah_serv_loop + 0x58
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024910 _pthread_body + 0x28

Thread 3:
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1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9000e9d4 _pthread_cond_wait + 0x268
2 0x902da570 0 + 0x902da570
3 0x902da3f4 0 + 0x902da3f4
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Thread 4:
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4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024910 _pthread_body + 0x28

Thread 5:
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1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900073f8 mach_msg + 0x38
2 0x901c16e0 0 + 0x901c16e0
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5 com.apple.iTunes 0x001d1e70 dyld_stub_binding_helper + 0x1cd918
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024910 _pthread_body + 0x28

Thread 6:
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Thread 7:
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1 0x901c6af0 0 + 0x901c6af0
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024910 _pthread_body + 0x28

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Help? It appears to have made all the files hidden, including from the iPod? It claims, when I try to play songs, that there are no songs on it.

From that thread:

"Okay now, what I found in doing this myself is that you CAN keep your library if you go into the hard drive and erase iTunes 4.71 and then download iTunes 4.70. (DO NOT TOUCH THE MUSIC ITSELF)
-After that, erase your iPod updates and the software associated with them.
-Once all of that is done, you can then download the iPod update from 11-15-04 (if ou can find it online).
-Restore the iPod, and update it using the November update.
-Once all of that is done, try plugging the iPod into iTunes and you shouldn't see any more problems. If you ARE still having problems, it may be that the iPod itself was corrupted and it needs to be replaced (which happened with my 6th iPod.) "

And here's the link for the November update he's talking about
.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ipodupdater20041115.html

Someone also mentioned something about unplugging FireWire devices? I just skimmed the discussion, but maybe look into that, too.

Specifically I'd like add one called "Label" and maybe drop/replace one I never use like Kind or Description.

I've looked in My Music, and said folder is actually there. Has this happened to anyone else?

My iPod won't work on my home PC without me (presumably) updating the BIOS and re-installing XP. I can't be bothered to do that so am just copying tracks to it on the work PC.

although since you've already moved it, and not in that fashion, it might be messed up. possibly you can use tweak to regain control of the my music location (?)

Argh. This is really fucking annoying. How do I possibly get it to recognise the My Music folder? Is it even worth asking Apple?

To restore the icon (if it's missing), use Start->Run and enter "rundll32 mydocs.dll,PerUserInit".

"iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience".

You'd think, for such a massive consumer product, that they'd manage to sort out software that ISN'T SUCH A FUCKING PIECE OF COMPLETE SHIT.

so if you've got that working, did you then reinstall itunes?

http://www.compphix.com/windowsfileprotection.html ->

http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=26026

Running the system file checker

Other hits suggested it may have something with old installations of Quicktime not being properly deleted. Do you get the same message when you try to run Quicktime?

This sucks! Any idea what the problem could be? Thanks.

so then, they popped round to Vicky's work at 10.39 did they? but no one was at home eh? oh yeah, apart from the whole bastard office.

are there any third party firmwares out there that I can use instead of iTunes?

CAN I ONLY GET THINGS FROM ITUNES? CAN I MAKE MY OWN FROM OTHER MOVIE FORMATS? HOW DO PEOPLE PUT PORN ON IT?

i do this. i've been doing it since iTunes v1. i'm probably very sad. but it's a kind-of fixation now :(

since i've had itunes (5 years or so) i've massively increased the amount of music on my computer and had to move stuff around to different drives from time to time to free up space in C:

my itunes no longer has a clue where any of my music is when i go to play it and i cna't be arsed to manually find every single track. is there a simple solution to this or am i jus going to have to wipe everything out of my library and start again?

(i may have asked this before somewhere but am still devoid of a solution so i also may not have)

Pls pls pls! i know it's a boring question that who can be botherred to answer right but i'd do it for you.... i really would

1. Select everything in your iTunes window and delete it. When it asks if you want it to move everything to the trash/recycling bin, DON'T do it!.

2. Do a spotlight search (or "Find files/folders" if you are using windows) for ".mp3" Select everything in the results window and drag it into iTunes.

If you have the hard drive space, after step one I would go into iTunes prefs/advanced and select "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library. Then, do step 2 (it will copy all the tracks into your iTunes Music folder), and then drag all those files from Spotlight/Find into the trash/recycling bin. iTunes does a pretty good job of keeping organized folders of all your music.

Ooo - if you have other formats (mp4, m4a, wav, aiff, etc), you must repeat these steps for them too. Unfortunately, WAV and AIFF metadata is stored in your library file, so you may lose it when you do this.

thanks. you, sir(/madam?) are a legend(/e).

how do i get to podcasts off my ipod that show up in the music>artists section but do not show up in itunes?

Shoot it.

YAH THANKS, ASS.

Sounds like something's got corrupt somehow. Have you tried Restoring your iPod?

Buy a Creative and be free of all this shit.

You know that you have to click the triangle icon in podcasts in itunes to see the list of individual podcasts under a general heading?

new query:

how does one convert one's avi, jpegs and mpegs such that i can put them on the ipod? i'm not sure i'd ever do this since i'm gonna easily fill it up with music but it would be nice to know how if i so desired to do so.

I don't have an iPod, so I can't help you. iTUNES is another matter... I think anything Quicktime can read can be converted...

for avis and mpgegs and stuff use http://www.isquint.org/

My father-in-law just gave me his son's unused iPod (haha, it had Bob Marley's Legend, a Doors best of, and Led Zepplin IV, and that's it).

ANYWAY, it was formatted for Windows & I have a Mac. So, here's what Apple tells me to do to restore it to factory settings (is this even what I'd want to do? From everything I've read, I understand this is the correct path.):

• Select your iPod in the Source panel and you will see information about your iPod appear in the Summary tab of the main iTunes windows.

So far so good, coming up just as described...but THEN:

• Click the Restore button. You will be prompted with one or more restore options that may prompt iTunes to automatically download the latest iPod Software.

And that's what the Summary tab tells me to do, as well. The problem is: there is no restore button. Uh...what?

So, could anyone help me through this or guide me to another way to make this usable on my Mac?

I tied installing the updater program too. It's giving me this message:

iPod 2 Software cannot be installed on this computer. This update requires the Mac OS X Networking Update.

And the Apple site says this in their FAQ:

This can happen with any Mac with Mac OS X 10.4 or later when you try to use older iPod software. To avoid this, download and install the latest iPod Updater.

AND the link takes me to download iTunes 7.3.1, which I did, and no dice...the updater still isn't working.

...

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And that's what the Summary tab tells me to do, as well. The problem is: there is no restore button. Uh...what?
Have you tried scrolling down in the iPod settings pane? I don't have iTunes here to check, but I remember that catching me out a few times. I don't think you need to download the updater separately anymore either -- iPod v. 2 is pretty out-of-date now.

YAY! That did it. I feel like a silly now, but thx for the help stet! :)

the iPod Updater is a truly, truly horrid piece of software. i don't even want to remember the nightmare i had with it. heap of fucking shit.

anyone have any experience with ip0d c0py software? or any other good way to prevent auto synching?

can't you just turn synching off?

i want to set up my new ipod now but i don't have my computer with me. i'm pretty sure that i'll lose anything i've put on it when i sync it to my own itunes.

but hmm... i think you're right about turning syncing off and just using the manual option. it's been over a year since i've had an ipod, and i've forgotten everything. i'm acting like an 80 yr old woman.

when you get to your computer, just turn auto synching off in itunes before you attach the ipod, and I think you'll be fine (xpost)

also, don't forget to change those depends

yeah tun auto-sync off then use http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/ (if yr on a mac)

thanks! i think i still have p0dw0rks, but i'll check senuti out.

http://www.floola.com

Keep a copy on your iPod. Takes a little getting used to, but completely worth it. I use it exclusively, but it plays nicely aside iTunes, if that's how you roll.

I just bought my wife a Nano, and I'm trying to set it up. iTunes installed on her PC easily, and it was a breeze to connect the Nano to the PC for the first time.

But now it's been a few hours and the Nano still just says "Connected." No songs have been transferred (I burned four discs to the new iTunes to test the Nano), and I can't get beyond the "Connected" screen on the Nano. Should I just let it continue charging? If so, when has it charged enough? Or should I disconnect it and begin the process again?

Thanks.

you have to 'eject' it from itunes to use it

Thanks! Two follow-ups: (a) By "eject it," do you mean just disconnect it from the USB portal (or is there some other, more involved process I have to go through) and, once I eject it, (b) plug it in again?

Sorry to be so thick-headed. I'm not terribly tech-savvy.

once you've dumped what music you want on it, if you look on the bar on the left in itunes you'll see next to an icon of yr ipod a little eject symbol - click it then unplug yr ipod, you'll be able so scroll through all the menus etc

Thanks!

Gah. I "ejected the disc," but it didn't transfer any of the music files. Any further guidance is appreciated.

you have to "drag" the "music" to the "nano"

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1494#section3

or uncheck "manually manage music and videos" (should be on the main screen for the ipod), then it will copy over new songs automatically.

Not sure what you mean. I inserted four discs, and when the icon appeared asking if I wanted to import them to the nano, I clicked "yes." (I also downloaded one song from iTunes, just to test it). Then, I followed the steps DG kindly suggested. After ejecting the iPod, I didn't have any music files on it.

Do I have to drag the music to the nano beyond what I did?

--Ah--. I'll check out the support site. Thanks (and thanks to ledge; I'll try that now).

Do I have to drag the music to the nano beyond what I did?

yes

the icon appeared asking if I wanted to import them to the nano

yeah that will import to the library on the computer, then you move stuff to the ipod

Thanks again. I was able to manually transfer the songs to the nano (by "dragging and dropping" them). I'd much rather have everything sync automatically, but so far, I haven't been able to set up auto syncing (put differently, the "manually manage music and videos" option isn't anywhere to be found on my nano (as far as I can see); under Edit --> Preferences --> Syncing, there's an unchecked icon for "Disable automatic syncing for all iPhones and iPods," but it doesn't seem right to check and uncheck that box, and I don't see anything else fitting ledge's description).

in the bar on the left there's a 'devices' heading and and yr ipod will be underneath it - click on it and you'll get a status screen w/ a picture of yr ipod, you'll find the relevant check box there (as well as a 'sync' button, bottom right)

Have you tried selecting the icon of the iPod, in the left-hand column of iTunes, by clicking on it? That should give you lots of options.

xpost

i thought it'd be set to sync by default

I think auto-sync should be the default setting, DG. Not sure why it isn't (or if it's something I did -- unwittingly -- to alter the default). Tracer, I think I tried that, but I'll try again.

What's a good free solution to get music from an ipod to the computer, using Windows (I know the answer for a Mac, but this is for my parents...)?

there is a program that used to be called 'podutil' but is now called 'music rescue'.

Can you no longer show hidden files and folders, then navigate to the iPod_Control directory?

This is surely a ridiculous question but how do I rename my On The Go playlists when iTunes is up and running? I have tried souble/triple/quadruple clicking, right clicking, etc.. am I doomed to navigate to On The Go 7 whenever I need a Creedence fix?

Can you no longer show hidden files and folders, then navigate to the iPod_Control directory?

i had no idea this ever worked...the one time I looked inside my ipod the files were not named in a straighforward way and not in any kind of order.

^ this

If they're all tagged appropriately, the filename doesn't really matter.

but if you're just looking to pull a few files off, it is not a feasible solution. if you're trying to get everything off I suppose it's fine.

I did the following:

1. Point Winamp at the iPod_Control directory and load the whole thing.
2. Selected the files I wanted to grab.
3. "Converted" them from mp3 to mp3, in essence copying the ones I wanted off of the iPod and into the Winamp output directory.

*flashes boobs, leg in hopes of someone pulling over, picking her up, and showing her how to rename her playlists*

3. "Converted" them from mp3 to mp3, in essence copying the ones I wanted off of the iPod and into the Winamp output directory.

I hope it (and you) were smart enough that it didn't reencode!