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I think having problems with iPods has fallen by the wayside. I can recall back to the days when you couldn't check your RSS feed without somebody lamenting the "Sad Mac" icon, randomly crashing desktops, and corrupted files. But these days? I guess I missed the hip time to have iPod problems, but I'm having them now.
I haven't even needed to update my ipod in forever. I was working on a show some time last year, and somebody on the crew took my pod home overnight and added at least 8Gigs of stuff to it, and I haven't had to add stuff to it since then. Over the weekend one of my funnest friends made me a "Cheer Up/No Need for Heartache/Happy time!" mix CD, which I would love to put into my Ipod.
...except I CAN'T, because my iTunes and my computer have decided that they want to pretend my ipod doesn't exist. I plug it in, little Pod is all like "DO NOT DISCONNECT, I'M IN!" and iTunes doesn't do squat. I restart. I open and close. I do all kinds of stuff, and nada.
I'm wary to screw around too much because about 85% of the stuff in the little pod are either from an old computer that's gone (from my parents), or from this random crew guy a year ago who gave me one biometric shit ton of cool music and I havent' talked to him since, so the stuff I have now could be lost forever with no way to get it back.
Anyone have any ideas? Options for back up? Something that isn't too super complicated that might save the music I have now while still enabling me to listen to Britney Spear's "Womanizer" (Track #4) in peace?
Any info that isn't "Go see the Mac Geniuses"* is very, very appreciated.
*I won't go to the Mac Geniuses. I hate them.
I haven't even needed to update my ipod in forever. I was working on a show some time last year, and somebody on the crew took my pod home overnight and added at least 8Gigs of stuff to it, and I haven't had to add stuff to it since then. Over the weekend one of my funnest friends made me a "Cheer Up/No Need for Heartache/Happy time!" mix CD, which I would love to put into my Ipod.
...except I CAN'T, because my iTunes and my computer have decided that they want to pretend my ipod doesn't exist. I plug it in, little Pod is all like "DO NOT DISCONNECT, I'M IN!" and iTunes doesn't do squat. I restart. I open and close. I do all kinds of stuff, and nada.
I'm wary to screw around too much because about 85% of the stuff in the little pod are either from an old computer that's gone (from my parents), or from this random crew guy a year ago who gave me one biometric shit ton of cool music and I havent' talked to him since, so the stuff I have now could be lost forever with no way to get it back.
Anyone have any ideas? Options for back up? Something that isn't too super complicated that might save the music I have now while still enabling me to listen to Britney Spear's "Womanizer" (Track #4) in peace?
Any info that isn't "Go see the Mac Geniuses"* is very, very appreciated.
*I won't go to the Mac Geniuses. I hate them.
