hey this will be one of my last posts for a while guys. ill be checking in periodically with everyone and making new videos maybe once every several months but not near as much as i do. that said, my brothers ipod is having trouble. it has about 150 songs on there, and everything was fine until one day. it suddenly stopped letting him upload songs to it, and also stopped lettting him delete songs from it. we tried deleting the whole itunes shortcut and redownloading, but it diddnt work. he doesnt know what to do and has asked people and checked their site, but it hasnt helped. he has had the same songs on there for over a month. any help is appreciated. much love.
i’m not that experienced with computers and such, but it sounds like it needs a restarting. just turning it off won’t do it either. run it until the battery is totally dead, so the memory is erased. then, if/when that fails, send it back to apple.
i have an ipod-imitation, and a 4-inch wide iron bolt fell off a table and crushed the screen.
Thats why I dont like Ipods that much, I can get another mp3 player, which is about 5gb large, and it is detected as a usb massive storage, then I can just drag and drop what songs I want into it. Makes it very simple, and they are about $70-$100, and pretty small, way msaller than an Ipod.
Im not a fan of ipods…I agree completely with jerrick. I got a 1g mp3 player for $150 and i just use Sony Sonic Stage(free program) to upload songs to it. Mine holds about 700 songs.
I got an RCA Lyra 20gb “ipod” thing on ebay for $30, it was broken and needed a new hard drive, I put in a 10g drive from an old laptop I had. The player works fine, you can just copy songs to it from the computer’s usb port and it will find them and add to the playlist, no itunes needed!
my wife’s ipod broke about a week after she got it, had to send it back and get a new one. the new one has been working ok for a year and a half, but itunes software still ****s. I had to build a computer for her to use with it because I don’t want that stuff on my computer.
Ok, my friend brought over his Ipod just yesterday with a samiliar problem to yours. After I downloaded the programs from apples Ipod support page, I continued to go and just reformat the Ipod, then reload the program that the Ipod uses, after that, it was working perfectly again, then I charged it up for him.
So if you havent already tried this, do a complete wipe of the Ipod, then continue with a fresh slate. =p
my solution to all ipod related problems-
step one- throw it across the room
step two- put pieces in the trash
step three- go buy something that will actually work for more then a week
Oh that icky Apple software. It’s always clogging up PCs and causing bluescreens!
I hadn’t noticed any problems with iTunes, other than its proprietary nature. What I like about it is the very easy-to-use database that it basically is, so I don’t have to figure out my own system to deal with my 7000 tracks. Without iTunes or something similar, it would be a big fat mess that wouldn’t get nearly as listened-to.
Sure are a lot of iPod haters out there. What is Da Doofus using that he/she likes better? If it has a hard drive in it, it’s no less likely to die if dropped while reading/writing, which brings me to my latest story. Yesterday I worked with my nephew to see if we could revive his “dead” iPod. All it did was make clicking noises, and show an icon of a sad-faced iPod on the screen. This same screen gives the web site where you should start for troubleshooting:
This site has instructions for resetting, putting it in disk mode, or other troubleshooting things you can do to restore, or revive a problem pod. Alas, as it seemed from the beginning, the hard drive was toast on this one (otherwise it wouldn’t click). All attempts to get it to a simpler state of being ended the same, as it couldn’t talk to the software on the drive. Dead iPod.
Somehow, this ends up in my wife getting a new one, while Austin gets hers! We also found instructions online for replacing an iPod Hard Drive, but that isn’t very cost-effective unless you have an old laptop hard drive already. It does work however!
Well…it requires you to install quicktime, which wants to sell itself, and generally thinks it knows what is best for the computer user. Either MS software doesn’t do this, or I somehow automatically disable it when I set up windoze. There are alternatives out there such as quicktime alternative and media player classic.
Also itunes seems to be pretty dumb about allowing you to use the same ipod on different computers, or use different ipods on the same one, and the playlist stuff is not the way it should be, etc. I’m talking about an older version, from about the end of 2004, which is the only one I’ve played with. It was bad enough that I never want to mess with it again. I tried to save all the configuration info from one computer to use on the new computer, it didn’t work so she had to go thru the whole thing setting up the playlist again, and reloading all the music onto the ipod again, because it’s too stupid to just see what is on there play it. It frustrates me just thinking about it. grrrrr
The hard drives used in most ipods are quite a bit smaller than a regular 2.5" laptop drive, thus they are a bit more expensive. The lyra player I have is very big and bulky and uses the cheap old laptop drives. It is not suitable for a younger person though. Although it might be ok for a unicyclist…
You’re right about that. I remember Quicktime being mildly annoying on my old PCs. It doesn’t do the same on a Mac; just plays files when you double-click them. The opposite is true of WMP on the Mac, which usually doesn’t play files, and generally has trouble playing lots of the stuff I download. I guess that’s part of the price for “free” players that come with rival OSes.
iTunes has been updated many times since 2004, with many upgrades & bug fixes. But it is still geared around one copy per user account per iPod. Easiest way around is to use a second user account, but then you may end up duplicating lots of songs depending on your needs. My setup involves having two sets of music library (databases) on an external HD, one for me and one for my wife, which it automatically connects to when signed in as her.
I know what you mean. I’m still trying to figure out why my nephew “deserves” a new one (he got it for Christmas 2004). He is not aware of the shock/drop that killed the HD; says it was working fine before he charged it, then clicking only afterward…
The ipod has the ability to act as a USB mass storage device. If it were well designed, one could play media files that have been copied to the ipod without having to use itunes (or any other “computer” software). My lyra allows me to do this. too bad the lyra is otherwise a total piece of garbage!
im using a creative zen vision: m (a little bit of a longer name, but its worth it), and so far i havent had any problems.
your nephews problem was far from uncommon, and all of the above listed steps and troubleshooting that apple suggests, dont work unless you can get a menu screen, which obviously you cant get to, because your stuck on a screen with a unhappy ipod face. (this is what happened to mine) and chances are, there never was any shock/drop, more a gradual accumulation of little shakings.
I hadn’t thought of that. If the device gets lots of bumping around while playing, this can add up to HD damage. Kind of like the metal fatigue that leads to broken axles or cranks. It’s not “how high can I drop…”
USB mass storage is great if you like organizing your files manually. Most players, including iPod, can do this but in the proprietary ones you can’t play the “stored” stuff. Similar with my iPod Photo, where you can’t simply upload image files; they have to come in the way it “understands,” and generate the right size thumbnail for onscreen viewing.
Anyway, now it looks like I may be the one getting a new iPod! Mine will go to Jacquie, and her 3rd generation one will go to Austin. Though he should probably have a solid state version (Nano or similar) if his gets banged around more. Ours generally ride around in our cars.