{"id":3900,"date":"2008-09-26T22:07:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T02:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2008-09-26T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T03:45:00","slug":"itunes-ate-my-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/itunes-ate-my-ipod\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes ate my iPod!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kind of what my iPod now does, until the battery runs out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have, well had<\/em>, a 2GB second-gen iPod Nano. Now I have a very slim brick.<\/p>\n

When I upgraded to iTunes 8<\/a>, it offered an update for my iPod. I let it do its thing, then resync’ed it. I noticed that the iPod rebooted after the sync — no big deal — but then kept rebooting (back and forth …<\/em><\/a>) forever.<\/p>\n

I tried resetting it<\/a>; nope, it would just start doing its thing again.<\/p>\n

I tried putting it into disk mode<\/a>, then restoring it; nope, back and forth, back and forth<\/em> …<\/p>\n

In desperation, I tried restoring it on a PC, which needed to reformat the iPod. Partial success; it sync’ed music from the PC, but since my working music library is on my iBook, I had to restore and resync, and guess what? back and forth, back and forth<\/em> …<\/p>\n

I’d heard that the problem could be caused by empty podcast folders<\/a>, so I cleared out and rebuilt my library, put the iPod into disk mode and restored it on a PC, resync’ed on the iBook and … back and forth, back and forth<\/em> …<\/p>\n

As a last try I’m going to fsck it under Linux. I might be stuck using yamipod<\/a>, which is probably a bonus, as all I use iTunes for is as an iPod conduit. I really miss having a Rockbox<\/a>-capable player, as it just worked the way I expected.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> yeah, that last one did it. Shame about yamipod’s UI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have, well had, a 2GB second-gen iPod Nano. Now I have a very slim brick. When I upgraded to iTunes 8, it offered an update for my iPod. I let it do its thing, then resync’ed it. I noticed that the iPod rebooted after the sync — no big deal — but then kept […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1386,102,104,62,1387],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-apple","tag-ipod","tag-itunes","tag-rant","tag-rockbox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-10U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}