Back in the days of the Atari 800, there used to be one golden rule: NEVER open the disk drive when the light's on. Today, you don't unmount a drive when the computer tells you it's in use. Yesterday I ejected my iPod for my lunchtime walk when for some reason iTunes said that the iPod couldn't be disconnected because it's in use. "In use? By what?". There were no open windows, no apps were using it (except iTunes which wasn't playing anything from it). Thinking that my XP machine was lying to me just to get attention, I disconnected the iPod anyway.
And I lost everything.
Yup, I went to find whatever it was I felt like listening to and my iPod told me nothing was there, but the "About this iPod" screen told me there were 7k files and 200+ pictures still on it. I brought the iPod back, and sure enough iTunes laughed at me. I had a dead iPod.
Or did I?
I make playlists based on music from the iPod and on my Windows machine at work. It's a mash-up because I don't like keeping 2 copies of things. Well, I tried a playlist I thought was based on files from my hard drive, but it was actually based on files from my iPod. Yup, the files were still there, it was just the directory iTunes used that was dead. Not one corrupted file in the iPod_Control folder. The problem was that they were all renamed KDFF.mp3 or somesuch. I backed up a few, even though everything is on CD at home and ripped to my Mac's hard drive and restored the iPod when I got home.
It's a totally useless story, but I hope I keep someone from pulling the plug on their iPod prematurely.
Friday, June 01, 2007
posted by Starman at 2:32 PM
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On both my HP laptop and my gaming rig, Itunes runs like a piece of shit.
It will sync with my Nano8gb, seemingly forever. When I try to exit Itunes, it warns me it still syncing, so say exit anyway, and it just crashes with 100% CPU load.
Same when I choose the "Disconnect" option, it just hangs and never ever actually disconnects the Ipod.
So from day one, I have been yanking my ipod out after I was sure the files has copied over, I dont even pay attention to the "Do not unplug" warning anymore.
What will usually happen though, is that the nano will crash on the first track you try to play. After a reboot its fine though.
Now Itunes crashing like this consistantly, and syncing forever I could possibly forgive if it was just on 1 pc, but on both my machines?
To top it off, it refuses to download Taverncast Afterhours epi 3. What a piece of crap software.
well i just recently got myself a ipod video in japan for really cheap and just getting used to the ipod and itunes together so its a fun experiment and rather trying one cause i have to use a pc atm and soon i will move to a mac if i can get net access for my mac which i am hoping in a couple of months also cause i want to reinstalll wow (how i miss it) but to get over my loss of wow for the present time i am downloading the podcast and the first wow podcas i downloaded was "worldofwarcast" and i am addicted to it and is perfect for when i am studying and such when i am bored and u guys are so helpful to teach me to become a better toon (its what my friend ad i call our chaacters) i know some of this belongs on review on itunes or ya forums but can't hop on those atm so that sucks big time so sorry bout putting this here oh and hear u and perfect co-host are ppl with web knowledge and such which is coool studying graphic design atm and learning bout web and its the best area to learn bot i reckon anyway i've rambled for to long so i'll leave u to ur busy life (only guessing but i take i'm right)