IPOD music failures

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I was wondering if anyone can help me here.

First off, I hate itunes. I utterly despise it in fact.

I have however given up on my quest to avoid it and I have installed it just to try to get some music onto the ipod.

The thing is, that when I added my MP3 folder, it took almost half an hour for it to eventually collect all the data, and it was so slow at trying to get any music onto the ipod that if seemed to fail when I only tried to add one song.

I decided that I hate the ipod as well.

So, I gave it to my daughter.

She also now hates it but, we are still trying to get some media onto it.

We are using itunes and my daughter only has half a dozen or so albums on her PC and so itunes is able to cope with those, but every time we try to sync, it seems to fail... It goes through the entire process but then wont finish.

Unles we do quite simply two or maybe three albums max?

WTF?

Itunes is clearly a load of crud for a massive collection of albums, so, is there any alternative?

I have tried to jailbreak my ipod, or rather I have given it to peopel who know how to do it properly and it wont jailbreak for some reason... Again, it goes through the process but wont actually complete the jailbreak and it always recovers itself back to stock.

Now, my mobile phone simply lets me copy my MP3s over like a flash drive, and so, is there any way to do this with the ipod?

I simply cannot understand how the hell these piles of junk are so popular?
 
I'm going to go with the fact there's a problem with the iPod, what generation is it and have you updated its software since purchasing it?

Personally I think iTunes is flawless and it syncs my iPod in minutes without a single problem. I can't say a bad thing about it.
 
Wellibob:
I have copytrans, that does the same thing.
It does however have a better interface that I prefer to iTunes.

Emphacy:
Lots of people do have good times with theirs... Lots of people dont.

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Anyway, yesterday, I went back to itunes and it said this time that my ipoo'd software was out of date and it did a download and installed the software which was about 8 minutes, but then it kind of failed to update ( Nothing new there ) however, now it was stuck with a USB cable pointing to an itunes logo and I have never seen that before?

I tried on my PC and my daughters PC and in both cases it gave me the notice that the ipod was in the middle of an update, but the ipod was utterly stuck.

Sod it, enough was enough I went to bed before I threw it at the wife.

... A few Z's later...

Well, I had a giggle last night, about 1am I woke up and I shot up into the attic to try something out...

I went onto my youngest sons PC cos thats a completely fresh install and I installed iTunes.

It acknowledged the same as the other 2 that it was in need of an update, I left it and 8 minutes later it said it was successful, it then verified itself and then restarted and it looked back on track.

I copied a couple of albums onto his PC in his My Music folder, and I copied one song and it went on.

I then copied both albums and they did indeed look like they have gone on.

Everythign was successful?

I have a mate down the road, who is a huge itunes fan. His Media PC is only a 3700 Clawhammer and itunes is murderously slow on his PC, but it does seem to work fine.

I wonder if there is any reason whyt both mine and my aughters PCs dont work Itunes 100% when my sons and my mates does?

I will have to have a look into that.
 
It may be more messing around than you are interested in but are you aware of Rockbox? It is a free firmware replacement for a number of MP3/audio devices, including some Ipod models.

I feel the same way about itunes and got rid of most of my old apple devices, keeping only an old nano (gen2 maybe?). This is running rockbox and allows me to play FLAC if I want and also access it as a regular removable USB device.

Worth a shot if yours is compatible, obviously usual risks/warnings apply with replacing stock device firmware :)
 
Rockbox?
Ah, I have heard of it but know ziltch about it... Its a replacement O/S is it?

I have a ... Another ipod on its way a 20GB job thats only a Music player ( why bother when my Samsung Chat does everything I need it to? ) but I might try that then?

Right now I think I am having some semi-luck with this now?

I have been toying about on my laptop with it and (Mint Mesa) seems to like it.

Although, and again forgive my utter ignorance here, but how the hell do you add one song to it?

All I seem to be able to do is fully wipe the lot.

Its only a 16GB iplod too and I have almost 600GB of MP3 and sure, I dont need all of that on it, but when I try adding it all to itunes, the program kind of fails to run right.

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What possible reason can anyone have for using an ipod when a basic MP3 player that costs a fraction of the price will do the job as good, if not better?
 
FatRakoon said:
I simply cannot understand how the hell these piles of junk are so popular?
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This. Absolutely this.

I hated mine so much I wagered it on a pool game and lost on purpose.

FatRakoon said:
What possible reason can anyone have for using an ipod when a basic MP3 player that costs a fraction of the price will do the job as good, if not better?
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1. Take album art.
2. Slap a funky trademark on it (Coverflow™).
3. Market it like it's the best thing since sliced bread.

Repeat as necessary.
????
Profit.
 
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I must say the first time I added my music to iTunes it lagged so badly, since then its generally been ok, but it still time to time freezes up and crashes. Overally I would say its a hate/love thing, I do like how it organise everything for me and when it works its good, but far too often does it crash, lag and **** me off. And its not like its my computer or a single device, I have had it with 3 iphones and 2 ipods, my computer is also running a i7 with 8gb ram so it couldnt be that either.
 
asim18 said:
Profit.
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I think its the only word necessary here.




Fallen god said:
I do like how it organise everything for me
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This is something that I find painfully irritating with many many people I know.

They have a music collection, of say, oh, 30 or 40 albums, and they are all over the place, some in My Music, some in My docs, hell even in downloads or Pictures, and some in a second partition and so on and so forth, then, they seem to think that itunes has helped organise their music but its all still piled in the same silly places.

Me on the other hand have a simple method and a way to organise my... Hang on, I will tell you EXACTLY how much music I have on my PC right now ...

Ok, in my MP3 collection, I have 786GB it contains 122.675.044 files in 9.928 folders. I dont have many FLAC files, I have only a few hundred and so I wont bother with those.

But the fact is, that I know EXACTLY where evry single file is on my PC, and if I have it, I know exactly where it will be.

For example all my MP3 files are kept in this way :-

E:\MP3\ARTIST\ALBUM\SONG.MP3

How bloody difficult is that?

So to clarify, a band called Rainbow ( Showing age or what ) have an album called Rainbow rising and the third song on that album is called StarStruck. This will be here :-

E:\MP3\Rainbow\Rainbow Rising\Starstruck.MP3

And I check it and... OFFS! Ok, I forgot in this particular case, I alos added the year so it is in fact

E:\MP3\Rainbow\1976 - Rising\03 - Starstruck.MP3

But you see what I mean.

Now, in just under 10,000 albums, this is how I have them sorted, and this is how I have always had them sorted, there is no excuse to need to use a **** player like itunes to sort music out is there?

And most MP3 players / phones act like flash drives when you connect them to a PC and dont need extra software and you just drag and drop the songs you want over... Why the need for itunes at all? Pure lazyness.
 
If the music doesn't sync, then you have a problem with the ipod/iOS or PC/iTunes/windows or the USB port :p

try re installing iTunes and don't be controlling with the way it wants to set it self up, there obviously good reason for it setting itsself up in that way. I really does sort the folders out quite well, and I like the automatically add to iTunes shortcut :)

Or restore the iPod using (iTunes :D )

I use iTunes (for years) with a nano, touch, iPhones and as a music player on Mac and PC and experience no problems with home sharing, syncing 25GB of music to the iPhone, and streaming from the NAS using Remote app.

I don't see how people have so many problems with it, and ive used it with different PC's on vista/7 :confused:
 
FatRakoon said:
SNIP
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When I say organise I meant more on my phone, I have lots of different playlists, and such that I have built over the years so it helps that its all there and the same no matter what device I use. On my PC my Music is very very organised, I dont have quiet as large a collection as you xD but I know were it all is and have no problem finding it.
 
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