{"id":101,"date":"2004-01-07T18:11:02","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T23:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2004-01-07T18:11:02","modified_gmt":"2004-01-07T23:11:02","slug":"minor-ipod-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Minor iPod Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s been a very iPod-centric day for me. <\/p>\n

I manually sync’d some new music and an interview with Bruce Sterling<\/a> (for more on my overall iPod “strategy” you can read this earlier post<\/a>). I then walked out to the car, plugged the iPod into it’s Belkin Auto Adapter<\/a> and tried to find the book I was listening to yesterday… <\/p>\n

My only<\/strong> playlist was the “On-the-go” playlist, which was empty<\/strong>…
\nso I rebooted it (Menu and Play buttons together)…
\nno music magically appeared under Playlists or Browse.
\nSo I drove to work listening to the radio and talking on the phone, thinking that some quality time connected to the Powerbook might heal my sick iPod. But, nothing worked! <\/p>\n

So I went out at lunch and bought a 120GB External Drive, backed up the (invisible) contents of the iPod using PodManager<\/a> (which I bought, upon reflection I should have learned to use rsync), erased the iPod using DiskUtility, re-installed using the iPod Installer 2.1 and connected it to Scott’s<\/a> 17 to wake it up (’cause the 12 wasn’t seeing it) and dropped the contents of the backup onto the iPod icon in iTunes…<\/p>\n

I’m now waiting for 4142 songs to be copied across! Thank God it’s over Firewire instead of USB 1.1!<\/p>\n

What have I learned:<\/b><\/p>\n

  • Don’t trust the iPod as a stable place to store music and books<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • I need more semi-portable, backup-type, storage (problem solved with the 120GB drive… at least for a while)<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • Anything having to do with music or video is a HUGE time-sink, especially when it stops working<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • I probably could have gotten away with deleting the iTunesDB file from the iPod_Control\/iTunes folder of the iPod, but I’m an idiot and had already wiped it by the time I found that advice on Google<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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