In the past year I've jumped the Ipod train. I uploaded some 8,500 songs onto it and I think it's great to have all of that music at my fingertips. So, today I get in my car and go to put on my Ipod. As I look for music, it is all gone.

ALL OF IT!

Wiped out! I frantically searched for the "About" screen, it says that I have 0 songs, but the same amount of memory is still accounted for.

This has happened before in Australia. The songs are still on the Ipod, but I can't access them at all unless it is plugged into a computer. I've gotten around it by plugging in my Ipod, changing the preferences to show the hidden files, and uploading all of those files back onto the computer, then putting them all back on my Ipod after I reconfigure it completely. All in all, it takes about 8 hours. Moreover, I had made about 40 year-specific or decade-specific playlists of hundreds of songs each. Reworking it all will be a bitch!

So, here is my desperate and pathetic plea for help.

Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know another way around this? It's incredibly annoying and has happened some 5 times now...

no but that scares me

that's awful,over 8,000 songs. I'd be pissed. Some iPods just up and quit all together though.

Static electricity can erase memory. So can't emp. Grounding yourself before touching the ipod and keeping it in a place were it can't be effected by electro megnetic pulses will help to.

MickG said:

Is there a way to recover the songs without jumping through the 8-hour hoop?

Moonbeam said:

Just the fact that you can recover is enough. I would assume not. you should count yourself lucky if you can recover in hours instead of how long it took you from the start or at all.

MickG said:

Not when this has happened at least 5 times... something is wrong.

Moonbeam said:

that is why I am sudgesting you change your routine.

Please keep in mind I am only guessing based on understanding of static and memory.

MickG said:

I can't think of what would cause it, though, because there has been nothing that should interfere with my Ipod each time it has happened.

One of the reasons I rufuse to stop buying CD's instad of going the digital route. Itunes is not for me because

it is proprietary to a computer,

the restricions they have for mp3's purchased from their store,

no recording function,

and that they make old versions obsolete when a new one comes out even if that new one comes out a few months of the previous release.

superspaceboy said:

I still buy CDs as well, so it's not like I've lost the ability to listen to the music. I just can't listen to it on my Ipod.

Fucky! Then do you have to preview all the songs and rename them?

superspaceboy said:

iPod or iTunes? Whenever Apple comes with a new version of iTunes you can easily updates without losing your library, mp3 is mp3.....these updates are compatible with all iPods, all generations!

I buy the cd's then rip them. I file them away on my computer and put them on my MP3 player. I store the ripped files to dvdrs.

I you have a MAC, you should be able to use iSync, I believe.

Return that piece of junk (if you can), and buy a Creative Zen Micro.

http://www.creative.com/p.../zenmicro/

evenstar3 said:

I have a creative, and I am very happy with it.

MickG said:

they rock!

Nobody at either Best Buy (where I purchased it) or Apple Support (where I have called) knows an easy way around it. Apparently Ipod Photo models are more problematic.

It appears that this time I'm not so lucky, either. None of the songs show up in the hidden folders, either.

Buy a new one....after 5 times of that I woulda thrown the damn thing out the window...cursing apple....but hey that's me....

PS I tripped up the stairs the other day as I always do atleast once a day....thought about you....and laughed so hard at myself my stomach hurt.

notoriousj said:

I just went to Best Buy. Fuckers wouldn't even replace it though I have a Service Plan and explained that this had happened 5 times. So now I have to go 14 days without it as it gets "repaired". Bet you a new Ipod it does this again.

Thanks for the laugh, Jess. I'll never forget you tripping up the stairs.

Moonbeam said:

Stupid Best Buy Bastids....Hey if I can make you laugh at my expense then I have done a good job.

Moonbeam said:

Whatever happened to the good ol' days when you could get an exchange for returning their crappy merchandise?

(I upgraded one of my old computers twice that way about 10 years ago. )

notoriousj said:

Ah, good ol' Valpo days...

VISA parties
Ghetto-ass Brandt Hall
Sleep-overs
El Amigo
Screaming 7 year olds

...

MickG said:

me too!

Moonbeam said:

Okay, as someone who has spent too much time in Valparaiso (but did not attend the University), I must know... what is a "VISA party"?

Moonbeam said:

OMG I so remember the night of the 7 screaming kids and buying all the redi wip the grocery store had....

matt said:

VISA was the Valparaiso Internation Student Association.

Moonbeam said:

I've done that more than I care to admit.

notoriousj said:

Man, we were desperate that night.