Sunday, September 24, 2006
Well, don’t I just feel like a heel. Do you want to know what I’ve been up to? Do you? Well, it all started with the computer. Everything was too easy. I figured it would be a good time to get all my music from the iPod back onto the computer. You see, I used to delete music off of the hard drive back when space was a bit more limited.
Anyway, so this is not something you can just do. The powers that be have purposely set things up so that you cannot go from iPod to computer. Something about the potential of piracy… So, I had to get on the VersionTracker and find a handy application to do this. Which was easy, but non-intuitive. Needless to say without going into a lot of detail I ended up with duplicates of over 2000 song files. When I tried to fix that with yet another handy and non-intuitive application I erased more than half of the files. So, re-transfered from the ‘pod, got my back up off of the external hard drive, and spent well over 6 hours manually cleaning up the file/duplicate/path problems of the 2675 songs.
When it was all said and done, my quest for the 150 or so missing songs set me back about 250. I now have less than I started with. Lesson learned.
oh wow. sounds messy.
Posted by antisocialite on 09/24 at 02:03 PMIn a lot of ways that aren’t publicized, iTunes kinda sucks. I maxed out on my iPod and so I have to delete crap. Ugh!
Posted by mad on 09/24 at 03:01 PMit was worse than you think. i am so glad it is over… remind me not to mess with that sort of thing again, eh?
Posted by daniel on 09/24 at 11:05 PMI feel your pain, Daniel. My ‘Pod has about 1500 songs on it that I can’t put on my computer because of that same situation. The only way I know of to do it is to somehoe magically boot up my old computer (which was declared a total loss by the computer-fixer people, and therefore the insurance company because it WILL NOT BOOT UP), make the ‘Pod into an external hard drive by using some setting on it, and then move them that way. Yeah.
Pretty much screwed on that account.
I’d attempt to use the program you found for it, but if it’s not intuitive, well, I’m scared to try!Posted by Liar Liar on 09/25 at 05:28 AMI hate that kind of stuff - spending lots of time on something only to realise it won’t work or that I’ve wasted my time. Bah!
Posted by Kirsi on 09/25 at 09:13 AM
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