iPod & iTunes help

[Our Nail Loney]

Don't wanna annoy ya main street cuz appreciate your help but could ya walk me through how to do that step by step please, that was sorta too complex for y simple mind!!

Do I connect it to the computer then wat?

[Main Street]

Are you using Windows?   
It´s easier for me to expain using Macintosh disk utility

If you are using Windows, then if you have exhausted the usual steps inside iTunes, resetting etc, then you treat the iPod as if it had a sick hard drive and try to repair it. This might work if the hard drive is not do do dead. If you have a disk repair utility program, fine use that, if not, then
1. change the usb port that ipod was attached to (that fools Windows every time)
2.  ipod is recognized as a hard drive,  go to MY COMPUTER , right click the ipod icon under my computer, click properties, then chose check disk (under tools i think). check both boxes, run check disk
then you have to wait a long time
3. with the ipod plugged into a different usb port, run ipod updater again. click restore, etc etc

Option
before moving to nr. 3
I don´t use Windows with iPod so I can´t remember if Windows cannot recognise a frozen device totally and asks you to reformat the "fat32" storage device.  The iPod has to be formatted to FAT32.  Once  you have reformatted it go back and "restore" it under the ipod software. Go to Programs-->Ipod-->Ipod Updater-->Ipod Restore. It

Any clicky whirly noise is bad news for a hard drive, you are usually up sh1ts creek then. In general use, an iPod should be treated as a hard drive and handled with due care.

[Our Nail Loney]

Right I am just giving up and assuming my iPod is bucked!! If I send it away to apple will they repair it for me? And will it cost me anythinh?

Only got the f**king thing couple weeks ago and so the warranty just two weeks old.

[Over the Bar]

I've found my iPod after being lost for about a year.  In the meantime I got a new one.  Now I want to transfer all the songs from the old one onto the iTunes which is synced with the new iPod.  Anyone know how to do this?

[ziggysego]

Never tried it, but worth a go.

http://www.downloadatoz.com/ipod-to-ipod/

[heganboy]

Just thought that I should post a correction

previously on this site I have posted that I loved the iphone. Having had the fecker for 3 months now Im over the initial glow, I'd like to retract that statement, It drops calls like a dodgy keeper, the touch screen gets hit by my wee tiny ears when I have my ear to the phone and randomly conferences in other people. The battery is a disaster and I have to top up during a busy day and the vpn times out far too often for it to be useful.

rant over

[Main Street]

I've found my iPod after being lost for about a year.  In the meantime I got a new one.  Now I want to transfer all the songs from the old one onto the iTunes which is synced with the new iPod.  Anyone know how to do this?

My 2nd iPod has been missing for over 18 months, it's a mystery, I always keep expecting to find it someplace, how did yours turn up? 

[Owenmoresider]

Alright, finally got an iPod after all this time, had an i-river but a downward trip to our driveway eventually did for that. A few questions:

1) Is there a good setup for connecting it to a car radio? Or does it sound fuzzy and require the sound to be turned up loud?
2) Can you sync from an external drive, or do you have to put it onto the iTunes library (NB there's 15-odd GB of that)?
3) Can you select individual songs to add to the iPod, rather than syncing it in full? Tried to see if I could but couldn't get anywhere with that.
4) Is it possible to play realplayer videos or other similiar videos from youtube etc. on it? Or is there a programme to convert them?

Probably been covered already, but time may have brought improvements.

[Main Street]

Alright, finally got an iPod after all this time, had an i-river but a downward trip to our driveway eventually did for that. A few questions:

1) Is there a good setup for connecting it to a car radio? Or does it sound fuzzy and require the sound to be turned up loud?

Depends on what Americans call your Head Unit (car audio unit)
I have a Pioneer unit with a rca input, a mini jack input and a usb input.
That means I have 3 options to connect.
I prefer to use the mini jack and use the iPod screen for scrolling
If the iPod needs charging then I use the USB input, then I use the head units screen for scrolling.
Sound from the unit is excellent, good speakers help.

If you haven't got any of those inputs then you can't connect your iPod unless you have a cd changer input, then you might be able to buy an adapter.

2) Can you sync from an external drive, or do you have to put it onto the iTunes library (NB there's 15-odd GB of that)?

Normally you can only transfer files through iTunes to an iPod. But you can transfer the files to the iTunes library without physically copying them to the iTunes music folder.

As my head unit has an USB input I can connect up to an 80gb drive directly to it and the unit reads the contents of the drive.

3) Can you select individual songs to add to the iPod, rather than syncing it in full? Tried to see if I could but couldn't get anywhere with that.

Of course you can.
After you connect your iPod and ITunes is open, in the window that opens, the summary window, you have the option to manually manage music and videos
Have manual transfer of songs checked and apply.
You can also manually select the playlists to sync. in another window, then you go online to GAA Board while it does the business.

4) Is it possible to play realplayer videos or other similiar videos from youtube etc. on it? Or is there a programme to convert them?

depends on the format of the video, should be mpeg 4, basically Quick Time should be able to play it.
There are a lot of software options for converting if you need to.

[Over the Bar]

Main Street, you seem tae know yer stuff.  Can you answer my question?

I've found my iPod after being lost for about a year.  In the meantime I got a new one.  Now I want to transfer all the songs from the old one onto the iTunes which is synced with the new iPod.  Anyone know how to do this?

btw it ws behind the filing cabinet in my office!

[Main Street]

Ziggy answered it already. Download some 3rd party software and it will do the trick.
There are a load of different ones afair.
All you need is some software that will recognize the music files stored on your iPod and you can transfer the files from the iPod to your hard drive and from there to iTunes and then to your iPod.
Normally when you connect your iPod, your OS will not gain access to the music files, they are hidden.

But if you still have the computer it was synced to then it's no problem. 

Nowadays you can have your iPod synced to 3 different computers.
At least with the latest generation or maybe it's since some software update.

[take_yer_points]

I use Ipod Videora for converting movies into a format that works with the ipod:

http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/

Never had any problems with it.

[DirtyDozen12]

I have downloaded a few songs recently on limewire and whenever i listen to them on the lap-top the song plays fine and plays the whole way through (like it supposed to).  However when i have put them onto my i-pod, the song in particular only plays for about 10 seconds before skipping to the next track 

Any one else have this problem before?  If so any solutions?

[ziggysego]

I have downloaded a few songs recently on limewire and whenever i listen to them on the lap-top the song plays fine and plays the whole way through (like it supposed to).  However when i have put them onto my i-pod, the song in particular only plays for about 10 seconds before skipping to the next track 

Any one else have this problem before?  If so any solutions?

No. However that happens to me when I copy my albums on the iPod.

[Main Street]

I have downloaded a few songs recently on limewire and whenever i listen to them on the lap-top the song plays fine and plays the whole way through (like it supposed to).  However when i have put them onto my i-pod, the song in particular only plays for about 10 seconds before skipping to the next track 

Any one else have this problem before?  If so any solutions?

Are you saying that it plays fine on iTunes on your laptop but once its in the iPod it skips.
Then it's likely to be a problem with the iPod's hard drive.
Treat it as a hard drive and run hardware tests.
First try to defrag the files with a hardware utility program if no luck then erase and restore it to FAt 32 format.

No. However that happens to me when I copy my albums on the iPod.

I had that about a year ago.
But the likely culprit is the iTunes decoder. First check that you have the latest version of iTunes.
I'm not positive, but an update of iTunes software might have cured it. I can't rightly remember.
When my CDs didn't decode properly in iTunes,
I used a decoding program to decode the CD  to WAV lossless format and then ITunes would decode WAV to mp3 just fine.

Then I  started to use Lame for decoding from CD  to MP3 VBR VO quality.
Lame is free for Mac and PC and blends in with iTunes. They say it is the best decoder going. I don't know.

http://winlame.sourceforge.net/download.php

PC users rave about Exact
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Exact_Audio_Copy.htm


The fix is to bypass iTunes for decoding music files that are on a CD.