So, as stated in my last post, I got an iPod, now named Suki-chan, and spent 3 hours of my life getting it to work so it would ingest some music.
First, I plugged it into a wall outlet to recharge the battery, so it wouldn't be trying to recharge only from my USB connection.
The problem I ran into, and that several others have reported on several forums, is that when installing from the cd, on Windows, the program will ask to connect the iPod to the PC to reconnize it.
I did this, and the programs finds it easily. Then, it states that the iPod needs to be formatted, so I accept, and 2 hours later, it's still formatting, with the "Do not disconnect" sign flashing on the iPod's screen, while the back of the iPod is starting to feel warm.
At first, I thought it was normal for it to take a while, since it is 20Gb, but after an hour, I started checking Google for how long it would/should take, and it seemed I was having a problem.
I haven't seen anywhere a tutorial on how to get around this, so I'll type up what I did, so this will be somewhere on the web, at least.
First, to disconnect the frozen iPod. Someone on a forum said they just disconnected it and it never worked again after that, so that's a bad idea. I simply rebooted the iPod as explained in the instruction booklet (37 pages for a 300$ player seems a little thin to me) that is, switch on and off the "Hold" button, then hohld the "Menu" and "Selection" buttons down for about 6 seconds together. The iPod reboots, the Apple logo appearing on the screen. At that precise moment, Windows gave the Ding sounds to notify that the new peripheric as disapeared. So at that moment, I unplugged the USB cable from the computer. I then removed the setup CD, and killed the setup program on the PC.
So lets give this another try. Here's what worked for me.
I had a previous iTune version on my computer, which I first removed. Then, I re-inserted the setup CD to restart the setup program.
When it asked to connect the iPod for detection, I told it to skip it. That simple. The rest of the installation went fine.
After rebooting the PC, I opened iTune, and then connected the iPod to the PC. After maybe 10 to 15 seconds, iTune/iPod Updater spoted the iPod, and asked to format it. I accepted, and that took just a few seconds.
I shut down iTunes, disconnected the iPod (once it said it was safe), then reconnected the iPod. iTune automatically starts up, and the iPod is reconized!
You can now proceed to fill it up with all your music collection!
Some people have stated that they find iTunes complicated. While it's true, by default, all you do is add stuff to your Librairy, the main list, and once the iPod is connected, it will automatically download that list.
The problem I saw immediatly was that that list is gonna get huge fast, and I don't want to keep a constant backup of all music files on my laptop, I don't have 20Gb of space left anyway. My solution is to connect the iPod, and in iTunes, click on the iPod's properties button on the bottom right. You can select to manually update the iPod. That means you have to move all music files manually from your main Librairy list toward the iPod's list while in iTunes. Once the piece of music is on the iPod, it can be removed from the Librairy without affecting the iPod. The drawback is that you have to always press the unmount button before unplugging the iPod when you're done. The other plus is that this way, the iPod can also be used as storage. It gets listed as a hard drive on your computer, and you can put anything on there.
Now all I need is an iSkin to protect Suki-chan on the go...
posted by PHy @ 2:21 PM
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