iPod Troubles...

HMTKSteve

I got up this morning and when I went to transfer the new GeekNights to my iPod I found it greyed out...



Anyone else having this problem? I can not download it to save my life and iTunes has just been bugging me to upgrade...

Every time iTunes bugs me to upgrade shit like this happens... WTF???

The image is from my "recently added" section.

Pilitus

Comment 1: You've got good taste in podcasts.
Comment 2: I've had this happen before, and I'm not sure exactly how to fix it. You can check in your personal library of podcasts if the show was downloaded or not, and if that doesn't give you a solution, I recommend deleting the file, the cycling your subscription. It's how I fixed my problem with it.

HMTKSteve

Something happened overnight as the GeekFu podcast made it through but the next two got stuck.

Some of my other podcasts have the "get" button next to them and do not appear in the recent list. If I hit the get button nothing happens...

The real bitch part is that I allow myself five minutes every morning (before I leave for work) to go to my "iTunes PC" to move all of the previous 24 hours worth of podcasts to my iPod. When I have a problem (computer re-booted on it's own, computer crashed, etc...) it just screws up my entire routine!

I have taken to changing ALL of my podcasts to have a start time of 00:01 as too many times my iPod will crash when I try to listen to a podcast from 00:00. It's a bother but when that one podcast causes the iPod to crash it can ruin your morning!

Apreche

How do people have these troubles? I have a nano and iTunes, and everything works fine. If it isn't working fine for you, I would complain to Apple. Either you screwed something up, or they did. It's not right.

HMTKSteve

How do people have these troubles? I have a nano and iTunes, and everything works fine. If it isn't working fine for you, I would complain to Apple. Either you screwed something up, or they did. It's not right.

My "iTunes" machine is an XP machine. My wife has a shuffle and has never had a single problem with iTunes!

We are investigating buying a Mac early next year to replace her 6 yr old XP machine. A few months back we had a power surge and it blew out her power supply. I replaced it but now, every time she tries to play a video, her machine crashes. I changed out the video card so I figure something else on the mother board must have been damaged from the power surge.

Because the machine is so old I'm not going to invest any more money into it. I'll probably turn it into a file share on our home network once she gets her new machine.

Yet... I have a 5th gen iPod and have had nothing but trouble with it.

I have reformatted it at least three times. I tried out RockBox but that software dumps it into disk mode if I plug it into the car charger...

If the Zune did not have such a clunky interface/control pad I would consider crossing over to the "dark side" and getting one!

VentureJ

As a temporary solution, why don't you just download the episode directly from the website?

HMTKSteve

As a temporary solution, why don't you just download the episode directly from the website?

Then it will not be in my "podcasts" section of the iPod!

Don't forget, I only have about 5 minutes of time to load the iPod in the morning. I can download it tonight but I don't want to have to do that for every podcast I listen too!

I used to use iPodder to catch my podcasts but I like having the podcasts properly sorted on my iPod.

jwallace

Would unsubscribing/resubscribing help? I've had to do this a lot since upgrading to iTunes 7.0.2 on my XP AMD machine. At work I left my XP P4's iTunes version on 6.0.5 and have had no problems. Just a thought.

The playtime lengths on half of my tracks are now incorrect, as my audio would cut off with two minutes or less left - this hasn't happened before iTunes 7.0 and is not the PC's fault. However, my four-year-old Compaq has gone through several power surges and is still fine, but if I have iTunes open the PC now crashes randomly. I see an iMac in my future.

HungryJoe

My iPod has started skipping songs. For example, I'll start listening to an album, it will start playing the first song, then skip to the next song, then the next, and so on until the album is over. It's like the fast forward button is stuck. I've searched the internet looking for a solution, but I can't find anything better that "Try to reset, if that doesn't work try to restore."

Does anyone have a better suggestion?

Funfetus

I've had that happen to me too. Never had any luck except wiping it and starting over.

Apreche

My iPod has started skipping songs. For example, I'll start listening to an album, it will start playing the first song, then skip to the next song, then the next, and so on until the album is over. It's like the fast forward button is stuck. I've searched the internet looking for a solution, but I can't find anything better that "Try to reset, if that doesn't work try to restore."

Does anyone have a better suggestion?

If resetting and restoring doesn't solve the problem, that means it is a hardware issue rather than a software issue. Based on what you say, I would guess that the fast forward button is physically stuck somehow. If this is indeed what the problem is, then you have three basic options. Option one is to attempt to repair it yourself, or get a friend to attempt it. Option two is to pay for a professional repair from Apple, or someone else. Option three is to buy a new player.

Technically there are two more options. Deal with the fast-forwarding problem while hoping it goes away, and just not having any portable audio player.

HungryJoe

I've had that happen to me too. Never had any luck except wiping it and starting over.

Did it work after that?

Technically there are two more options. Deal with the fast-forwarding problem while hoping it goes away, and just not having any portable audio player.

That might actually work for podcasts, because I can sometimes stop the skipping by pushing "Pause". Then it usually can resume playing the track pretty normally.

Funfetus

I've had that happen to me too. Never had any luck except wiping it and starting over.

Did it work after that?

Technically there are two more options. Deal with the fast-forwarding problem while hoping it goes away, and just not having any portable audio player.

That might actually work for podcasts, because I can sometimes stop the skipping by pushing "Pause". Then it usually can resume playing the track pretty normally.

Yep. I think it has to do with the database getting corrupted or something. You're talking about when you start playing an album, and it just zooms through all the tracks without actually playing anything, right?

HungryJoe

Yep. I think it has to do with the database getting corrupted or something. You're talking about when you start playing an album, and it just zooms through all the tracks without actually playing anything, right?

That's exactly what it does. I'll have to try restoring it. Thanks.

Apreche

That's exactly what it does. I'll have to try restoring it. Thanks.

Oh, maybe it's not a hardware problem. I was under the impression you tried restoring already.

HungryJoe

That's exactly what it does. I'll have to try restoring it. Thanks.

Oh, maybe it's not a hardware problem. I was under the impression you tried restoring already.

I tried resetting, but not restoring.

Jain7th

If you organize your whole music with iTunes a restore is something very trivial. Even with the slow data transfer speed with iTunes in XP it should finish over night.
If that doesn't help you can be sure it's a hardware problem and visit your closest Apple store and/or tech friend.

Funfetus

If you organize your whole music with iTunes a restore is something very trivial. Even with the slow data transfer speed with iTunes in XP it should finish over night.
If that doesn't help you can be sure it's a hardware problem and visit your closest Apple store and/or tech friend.

I keep all the music I want on my iPod in one big playlist for just that occasion. If I have to restore, I just drop that playlist into the iPod and go to bed.

CHOIS CHOIS CHOIS

Server hick up. Just delete and re-download, or just go straight to the source.

Every time iTunes bugs me to upgrade shit like this happens... WTF???

I found with any software, just wait a few weeks and usually the bugs are ironed out.

HungryJoe

I think that restoring the iPod will probably work because I have another iPod that developed exactly the same problem and restoring it worked well.

The problem with the old iPod is that I have 40 gb of stuff on it. How can I save the entirety of the iPod to my computer so that I can load it back after the restore? I've tried several programs that one can find through Google, but they've all turned out to be useless. Are there any good programs that will copy files from iPod to computer that are not riddled with spyware and that don't limit functionality in the hopes of blackmailing a user into buying a whole program suite?

Apreche

Are there any good programs that will copy files from iPod to computer that are not riddled with spyware and that don't limit functionality in the hopes of blackmailing a user into buying a whole program suite?

Linux.

HMTKSteve

Getting stuff off of your iPod is not easy. You can't drag-and-drop stuff out of it via iTunes and all the file names have been changed to things like "fjk8u84hj.mp3".

If you just want to get everything off of it make sure the iPod is set to run in "disk mode" and access it the way you would a thumb drive and drag everything out of it and onto your hard drive. you will be stuck with a bunch of numbered folders with gibberish file names but you will have everything.

I'm not sure if the iPod saves the track information in the mp3 file or only in the database so figuring out which track is which may be a major pain.

My old computer had a hard drive smaller than my iPod's so I had to do a lot of Rip-Copy-Delete back then. When the database in my iPod crapped out I was fairly well screwed. My new computer has a much larger hard drive so that problem is now gone.

Know what? I have not even used my iPod in about two months...

Tasel

Are there any good programs that will copy files from iPod to computer that are not riddled with spyware and that don't limit functionality in the hopes of blackmailing a user into buying a whole program suite?

My personal favorite is Senuti. The idea is it's iTunes... just backwards (hence the name). Works really well. Unfortunately Mac only. Not sure of any other non-apple options out there.

HungryJoe

Are there any good programs that will copy files from iPod to computer that are not riddled with spyware and that don't limit functionality in the hopes of blackmailing a user into buying a whole program suite?

My personal favorite isSenuti. The idea is it's iTunes... just backwards (hence the name). Works really well. Unfortunately Mac only. Not sure of any other non-apple options out there.

That's exactly the type of thing I need. Unfortunately, every time I look, all I can find are programs that let a user try them out for a few tracks and then lock up unless the user pays. Surely someone knows of some sort of utility program that will let me simply copy tracks from the iPod to my Windows XP driven computer.