My iPod has forgotten it's an iPod

divine` · 31 Jul 2007 at 17:31

No idea how it's managed to do this but basically it seems to have forgotten it's an MP3 player.

All the artist/playlists/albums etc. have gone from the Menu when you use it. When you plug it into the PC it just works as a removable drive, WinAmp doesn't spot it as an MP3 player...

However, all the music is still actually there.

It's a 4G i think (iPod Photo)

Is there some way to 'rebuild' the Database? as the one on it is not the same as the one in iTunes and I don't want to spend hours unticking 10GB worth of songs and refilling the whole thing...

Help?

Richiev4 · 31 Jul 2007 at 17:34

Have a look here

http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/itunes/it7-2.html

Folow the steps on the right in reverses and see what happens.

Rich

divine` · 31 Jul 2007 at 17:37

It's always been in disk mode as far as I am aware, but it still functioned as an MP3 player when unplugged, and WinAmp would recognise it as such.

I'm not sure this iTunes library is linked to this iPod either...

divine` · 31 Jul 2007 at 17:40

iTunes recognises it as an iPod, can see that 18GB is full up, but doesn't list any tracks...

divine` · 31 Jul 2007 at 17:42

Nope... actually, iTunes just felt it would be ok to remove all the songs that were on it.

Great. Gonna have to rebuild it all anyway now.