Updated: iPod Technical Post (warning: rated D for Dull)

Ahhhh ... my iPod has been resurrected.

For a few months there, I neglected my iPod.  Last week I charged it up and I updated iTunes...to...7.3 something. After I did that and did a Restart of my PC, the iPod just sat numbly in the port, and it did not even bother to show up in iTunes. It showed up in MyComputer, just not iTunes.

Still, I inherited from my Dad a little of the belief that if you leave it alone it will heal itself. So since the iPod appeared to be all charged now, I took it to work and found that it would spend about 2 seconds on each song before moving on the the next. Reset did no good.

I have one of my five allowable installations of iTunes on my work PC, and I hadn't updated that one. It recognized my iPod and I did the last R: Restore. I pulled over all my work tunes, but since the home iTunes was still shunning my iPod I couldn't get my home music on there.

Well, yesterday Apple came up with yet another version of  iTunes, and after doing a hard boot of everything and plugging the iPod into a different port, I started iTunes again and it was there.

I pulled over all my home music (this time I was very careful to wait for the last batch to be pulled over before I started the next batch) and did a sort by playing time. I had a few songs that were truncated (and thus played too fast), but I deleted them and brought them in again.

So. I'm happy. As always, I have no idea what the magic step was that fixed it.

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Updated to add: Oh, and then after I fixed the iPod I urinated on myself while having sex with the vibrator and Gary at the same time.

Not really, but this is the type of thing you seem to want to hear.

Comments

[Friend #3]

Whoo. (And I mean that in the most loving way.)

[Troll]

(eye roll) So much for your technical skills, Programmer.

[Christy]

I have an iPod. I have had an iPod for 4(?) years. It is sitting, empty, atop the Bose iPod system I have had for 3 years. Technology is wasted on me, I applaud your patience.

[ajooja]

I've had several iPod/iTunes issues but it's mainly because I'm 41-years-old and I don't read directions.

I mainly just listen to podcasts now.

[Hot Mom]

TMI in a Public Service Announcement format. Yawn.

I'd rather hear about how you were banished from your own bedroom.

[KC]

I did that iTunes update also. Now, when I want to release my iPod from it's USB stranglehold, iTunes will not release it without all kinds of error messages. What's up with that crap? Don't they know I'm a technophobe and I can't be bothered with this stuff?

[Kathy]

I still don't have an iPod, but I love using iTunes. Makes me feel like a Mac person.

[Friend #3]

Updated to add: *yawn*

[TheQueen]

Friend #3 - Suck Mah Ballz.
Troll - Dude, where is your email? Usually I get Screwoff@shutupQueen.com or some such.. So lazy.
Christy - Wow! Have you listened to iPod? Oh, wait, you don’t work next to Robin, the grunter, so you don’t need one.
ajooja - I liked the BNL podcasts – are there others? Like, amusing ones?
Hot Mom - Yeah, well maybe later. Plus, I updated it for you.
KC - Yeah, I think a lot of people have that eternal “Do not eject” message. I think I goofed up my iPod port by sticking other stuff in it, like the camera and the jump drive.
Kathy - My Mom’s a Mac person. But the PC guy in the commercials is so much more appealing than the smug Mac guy, don’t you think?
Friend #3 - Right at this second, John Cougar Mellancamp is on the Daily Show singing your favorite song, “This Is Our Country.” So, Updated: Bite Mah Ballz.

[sue]

You've given me hope. I'm going to have to get out my iPod that's been sitting in the drawer for 3 years because I was frustrated with the whole 2-second-per-song thing and give it another go. You really are my hero!

[TheQueen]

sue - I am iPodia, the patron Saint of iPods. I hope you iPod finds peace and healing.