I am having problems with my 40GB 4G iPod. About 50% of the songs when I try to play them don't work. I click play, and it just freezes for a while, then skips to the next track, t…

what format are those songs in? Can you play them on your computer? (mac? windows?) Have you tried resetting your iPod and putting the songs on anew? Has your iPod been upgrade…

im betting that its probably the songs, not the iPod

Well this has only just starting happening recently (the last week or so), and the songs all work absolutely fine on itunes. They are in aac format (i think thats the one). I have …

Have you moved or otherwise messed around with or changed folder names within your Music folder? If so, iTunes will need to be pointed to your tracks again.

my room mate had a problem like that. restore it, thats what we did, and it worked

yeah, just clear it off and put the songs back on there

update: I tried to restore the iPod using iPod updater. This failed (I got an error saying "disc write error") and now the iPod is frozen on the exclamation file icon. I have conta…

Hey all, I've heard that the iPod can be used as a hard drive as well, to back up data or whatever. Is it possible to copy mp3's, wav's, etc, as 'files', rather than copying them a…

Yes, but then you can't play them on the iPod. (although with a a bit of judicious library work you could play them through iTunes from a connected machine)

Are you talking bout backing up your MP3's on your iPod? This makes no sense because if ever anything should happen to your Mac, with the help of some 3rd party apps you could loa…

hey.. yes.. some of the stuff i'm wanting to back up would be mp3's, but i want to back up my music, meaning music that i've written myself. Thus, aside from wav's and mp3's, I've …

Don't worry about that they should be backed up just fine.

They won't be in the iPod's playlist unless you transfer the songs via iTunes. If you backup via disk mode then you're ok -- they won't be in your playlist.

wicked all.. thanks for the replies.

hope this isnt thread jacking, i'm trying not to start a new thread (dont need to get slapped by a moderator). i want to back up my powerbook. it has a cdrw drive, which doesnt gi…

I assume that you have a firewire cable that came with the iPod. Cable requirements depend on PC fit - if you have 6-pin firewire on the PC, then use it, no additional cable requi…

Quote: Originally posted by christ: I assume that you have a firewire cable that came with the iPod. Cable requirements depend on PC fit - if you have 6-pin firewire on…

Well I just bought an ipod and transferred files from pc to mac to pc no problems. The procedure given by that last reply was spot on. You have to format it on the pc first, as h…

forgot to mention in my last post, once you do this whole reformatting stuff your ipod will now be like an external hard drive, still works perfectly as an ipod but it is important…

thanks, i understood all those things, i just needed to know where i can get the adaptor / cable. =) .. i couldnt find it at best buy and radioshack was closed so i'm going to try …

hi, this is exactly the thread i was looking for. my brother will buy a ipod photo 60 gb tomorrow. so, when i hook it up to a pc, i might have to format in FAT32. after transferrin…

Format the ipod using the iPod updater on the relevant machine - don't use "format disk" or "disk utility". If you want to share the iPod between the two machines, format it using…

so i have a 5gig first gen ipod, and its been awsome since the day i had it now a couple of days ago the middle button is stuck down, ive taken it apart, and it seems the button m…

I just got my new 1 GB iPod shuffle, and much to my dismay, am having big problems with it. First, I plugged it in, updated its firmware to 1.1 and AutoFilled it. No problems ther…