texanpenguin
Registered Penguin
I'm not impressed. I was given a 60GB white iPod Video for Christmas, and it hasn't yet worked as advertised ONCE.
I was a bit confused that it came Windows formatted, but restoring it to HFS+ with the latest iPod Software was easy enough. Then iTunes picked it up, and started filling it with songs; perfect! Then, around 3000 songs into a 5400 song library, iTunes crashed. Since it hadn't saved out a complete library, starting iTunes again cleared the iPod and the process started again. Again, around 3000 songs into the sync, iTunes crashed.
Taking the initiative, I started iTunes again, and set the iPod to manually manage. First, I added the songs that iTunes kept crashing on. Nope, synced across fine. Then I did more and more. Eventually I decided I'd fixed the problem, flipped it back to Automatic and it started work again. It crashed at some point when I wasn't paying attention.
So then I decided to manually add all the songs, in groups of about 500 at a time. This takes... a very long time. Eventually all the songs were on the iPod (as they now are). I switched the settings back to Automatic, so it would sync with new songs when I got them.
iTunes has synced the Music (with a lot of my help), the Videos and the Podcasts, but it hasn't synced the Contacts nor the Calendars (which it DID used to sync with my 3G iPod). I can potentially iSync them across, but that's not how it's *supposed* to work. What's more, album art for music doesn't show up on the iPod (though the setting to show album art on iPod is on in iTunes), though album art for Podcasts do show up.
I don't want to format the iPod again, because I suspect iTunes will just crash again after three thousand or so songs, and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit and transfer song blocks again, especially if it seems it doesn't copy across the album art.
What do you all suggest? I'm on Panther. I've attached my iTunes crash log if that helps.
I was a bit confused that it came Windows formatted, but restoring it to HFS+ with the latest iPod Software was easy enough. Then iTunes picked it up, and started filling it with songs; perfect! Then, around 3000 songs into a 5400 song library, iTunes crashed. Since it hadn't saved out a complete library, starting iTunes again cleared the iPod and the process started again. Again, around 3000 songs into the sync, iTunes crashed.
Taking the initiative, I started iTunes again, and set the iPod to manually manage. First, I added the songs that iTunes kept crashing on. Nope, synced across fine. Then I did more and more. Eventually I decided I'd fixed the problem, flipped it back to Automatic and it started work again. It crashed at some point when I wasn't paying attention.
So then I decided to manually add all the songs, in groups of about 500 at a time. This takes... a very long time. Eventually all the songs were on the iPod (as they now are). I switched the settings back to Automatic, so it would sync with new songs when I got them.
iTunes has synced the Music (with a lot of my help), the Videos and the Podcasts, but it hasn't synced the Contacts nor the Calendars (which it DID used to sync with my 3G iPod). I can potentially iSync them across, but that's not how it's *supposed* to work. What's more, album art for music doesn't show up on the iPod (though the setting to show album art on iPod is on in iTunes), though album art for Podcasts do show up.
I don't want to format the iPod again, because I suspect iTunes will just crash again after three thousand or so songs, and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit and transfer song blocks again, especially if it seems it doesn't copy across the album art.
What do you all suggest? I'm on Panther. I've attached my iTunes crash log if that helps.
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