gona make ipod photo play videos

**rayltx** · February 15th, 2006, 07:44 PM

ok so my friend is gonna make my ipod photo play videos. he already did it in his ipod nano and they work good. but i was wondeirng like will it mess up with the baterry or something. cause i heard it would. oh his making them play them by installing linux

**eric2006** · February 15th, 2006, 07:49 PM

You can always do the "Factory Restore" in the ipod software updater, which should revert back to good old iPod OS, unless linux has somehow damaged your hardware.

**rayltx** · February 15th, 2006, 07:52 PM

but the thing is i restarted my computer but i didnt back up my music so i dont wanna loose all my music b restoring it

**eric2006** · February 15th, 2006, 08:11 PM

So.. all your music is only on your iPod, not your computer?

**rayltx** · February 15th, 2006, 08:12 PM

unfortunatly yes oh by the way is there a way to export all my music out of my ipod

**eric2006** · February 15th, 2006, 08:17 PM

You should download your tunes back to your computer - just in case. I used iLinkpod (http://www.ilinkpod.com/) to do this on my computer. You will definitely want to do this if you are putting linux on your iPod, because if anything goes wrong, your tunes are gone.

**Qion** · February 15th, 2006, 08:19 PM

Ha, that's funny... Actually this just happened to me. Be *extremely* careful with trying to catch iTunes before it "syncs" up your iPod and destroys everything... if you haven't made a user profile in iTunes yet, tell it "No" when you plug your iPod into the computer.

I tried one program that was reccomened by a site I was reading, but it basically did nothing... a bit of research would of helped...