Something decided to make my iPod sick today. I was listening to it fine before lunch, yet after work when I went to listen to something in the car, it suddenly told me I had no podcasts or music! I couldn’t believe my eyes. I even reset it thinking it was just a glitch, but it still said “no music” and “no podcasts”. My notes, photos, and games were still there, however.
As soon as I got home, I plugged it into iTunes thinking that would solve the issue. iTunes informed me that it could not read my iPod and I needed to “restore” it, which removed all the content and reset it back to the factory settings. Talk about a suck fest!
The thing is, re-loading my data was quick and easy. I even had the forethought to grab everything I had dumped onto the drive in disk mode and copy it to my desktop before “restoring”, so I didn’t lose my notes. I went upstairs to work out while 34 GB of crap transferred. So overall, getting my iPod back to the way it was before was relatively painless.
What sucks is that my favorite game, Peggle, had to be synched again so I lost all my progress… and I was on the very last stage of the game!!! I never ever beat games so that totally blows. That’s hours of effort right down the drain.
But the absolute worst part is I still don’t know what caused this to happen and how to prevent it from happening again. What if I was on vacation and couldn’t restore my music? I guess I’d be shit out of luck, huh? Not cool, Apple!
I read an interesting thing one time… iPods are computers just like any other computer on your desktop. The difference between the two is that iPods do one thing and only one thing while computers do thousands of things at any one time. If your computer glitches, you likely never notice because it’s one thing in a few thousand. Your iPod glitches, you notice because it’s the one operation it’s meant to perform.
I’m not trying to make excuses. Believe me, mine has glitched out too. If it happens too often, take it back to the store and cash in on your warranty. That’s why we have them.
I hope it all works out.
I got rid of my nano last year. It constantly did stuff like that. It only syncs with iTunes and it’s a hassle for me on Windows. Constant software updates. I had enough. Especially when I added new music I had to run a special program just to get it to recognize new music.
I switched to a SanDisk Sansa. LOVE it. Plays videos, music, photos AND stores data files AND I can add memory to it with a SD card. Way better than an iPod. And it hasn’t crashed yet. Syncs with WMP which automatically recognizes I’ve added new music.
I’m glad I dumped my iPod.
~Jef