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Dratted iTunes!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software

Over the week­end, I started vis­it­ing some MP3 blogs and down­load­ing some of the free tracks out there for extra lis­ten­ing mate­r­ial on my iPod. Today over lunch, I booted my home com­puter into Win­dows; so I could trans­fer those tracks to the iPod¹. How­ever it seems I’ve been biten by a bug in the iTunes/iPod software.

See, iTunes wouldn’t launch with the iPod con­nected; it would start in the back­ground but wouldn’t dis­play the GUI (at least it wouldn’t do it quick enough to sat­isfy me). If I dis­con­nected the iPod, launched iTunes, recon­nected the iPod then iTunes would con­tinue to run but would fail to see the iPod. I tried dink­ing around with this for a while (reboot­ing, dis­con­nect­ing, recon­nect­ing, check­ing for updates and what­not) but didn’t get any closer to hav­ing iTunes rec­og­nize the iPod. Though at one point an error mes­sage did pop-up telling me I needed to refor­mat the iPod.

I started search­ing Apple’s web­site, as I remem­bered hear­ing that there was an issue like this back in April when the last update for iTunes/iPod was released. The most info I could find basi­cally told me to backup, refor­mat the iPod and try again. *sigh*

That’s not some­thing I really wanted to hear. I guess tonight I’ll be boot­ing back into Linux; back­ing up the data from the iPod to DVD-Rs and then try­ing some more dras­tic mea­sures to get the iPod work­ing right again.

Oh and the other rea­son I’m upset with iTunes; is that I for­got to go buy some songs from them over the week­end and hence had zero chance to win a free Power­book. *dou­ble sigh*

¹ For the record, I am famil­iar with gtk­Pod but it gives me errors every­time I try and get it just to read from my iPod which makes me dis­in­clined to use it to write to the iPod.

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