Waaah. Help me.
Nov. 8th, 2005 12:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhFor the last few weeks, whenever I plugged my ipod into the computer, I'd get a little pop-up saying 'the new version of iTunes is here! Update your ipod!'
I ignored it for a while, but eventually I got sick of seeing it and had a few minutes free, so I went ahead and downloaded the file. Except now everything has gone to hell. It warped something on my ipod, randomly selecting a couple hundred of the songs and changing their play counts to numbers in the hundreds of thousands. Which bugged me, because I'm obsessed with the play count and like to watch my Top 25 all the time, so I'd been going through and reseting them, or getting as close as I could remember, whenever I had time. And then I noticed that there was something wrong with some of the songs. They look fine, but when I try to play them, things will either freeze, skip the song entirely, or play a little bit of it and then switch to the next song without finishing. And there's no way to tell which songs it'll do this to, because their files look perfectly fine. Also, it seems that although some songs are always corrupted, some will be one day and then will be fine again the next.
And then tonight, as I was trying to fix some of the play counts while I watched TV, I attempted to play one of these songs without realizing it was going to be a problem. Itunes froze and, after waiting a few minutes and getting tired of waiting for it to fix itself, I shut down the program through Windows Task Manager. Now, my computer is not recognizing my ipod. Every time I try to plug it in, I get taken to the 'Setting up your ipod' screen, and I'm terrified if I follow the instructions that I'll wipe all the songs off my ipod (which are still there, at least when it's not connected to the computer). I've tried restarting the computer, I've tried rebooting my ipod; neither helps.
Um. So. What do I do now?
I ignored it for a while, but eventually I got sick of seeing it and had a few minutes free, so I went ahead and downloaded the file. Except now everything has gone to hell. It warped something on my ipod, randomly selecting a couple hundred of the songs and changing their play counts to numbers in the hundreds of thousands. Which bugged me, because I'm obsessed with the play count and like to watch my Top 25 all the time, so I'd been going through and reseting them, or getting as close as I could remember, whenever I had time. And then I noticed that there was something wrong with some of the songs. They look fine, but when I try to play them, things will either freeze, skip the song entirely, or play a little bit of it and then switch to the next song without finishing. And there's no way to tell which songs it'll do this to, because their files look perfectly fine. Also, it seems that although some songs are always corrupted, some will be one day and then will be fine again the next.
And then tonight, as I was trying to fix some of the play counts while I watched TV, I attempted to play one of these songs without realizing it was going to be a problem. Itunes froze and, after waiting a few minutes and getting tired of waiting for it to fix itself, I shut down the program through Windows Task Manager. Now, my computer is not recognizing my ipod. Every time I try to plug it in, I get taken to the 'Setting up your ipod' screen, and I'm terrified if I follow the instructions that I'll wipe all the songs off my ipod (which are still there, at least when it's not connected to the computer). I've tried restarting the computer, I've tried rebooting my ipod; neither helps.
Um. So. What do I do now?
