I Hate Ipods
 

my computer just froze and i lost ALL my songs on my ipod because it was plugged in. I was only using the damn thing to hold the files while aI got a new computer. All my new music, gone,

no cd's or vinyl...

obviously but not as many as mp3's. im depressed.

ummm, listen to a cd or record then to cheer you up

oh well, one presumes it was all downloaded illegally anyway. easy come easy go.

^ lol. But yeah iPods piss me off too. I mean, I sent mine through the wash, and it stopped working so I had to buy a new one. I mean what shitty little device can't handle a little bit of soapy, bubbly, water? My new one has been good to me so far, I've only had it since February/March though. When I first purchased my old iPod it took me forever to get it going. I was so confused at setting it up. It was quite pathetic. Then once I finally got a few songs on, I sync, leave, come back, plug it in again, 0 songs. AH! Long, boring story, but true, I have the hang of the iPod now though.

Word.

My girlfriend accidentally killed her laptop yesterday WHILST DOWNLOADING ILLEGALLY on soulseek, losing everything (including some epic essay about Neville Chamberlain that wasn't backed up). Pwned. I pay for all my rekkidz.

heheh, for my luck my mp3 player full of illegal crap works perfectly.. I've got to say I need new earphones. the other day I was listening to 'the beatles' on my audio system and it was awesome.. the drums were just inside my head and the other instruments around, like if I was in the same room. with my ipod earphones I just get a thick wall of noise. I just need some good headphones and I'll rule. :P

Ha ha. Funny, but really sucks for her.

ok, well, apparently the files are still there but they are "corrupted", but i can still see them under the ipod section of my documents, but they are listed as "hidden", anyone know if there us a way too uh, unhide this shit.

you using a mac?

http://guides.macrumors.com/Viewing_...files_on_a_Mac

no unfortunately not

It's gonna cost 45 clams to resurrect apparently, so again, pwned. Karma though.

i was just out with my lady friend and the whole time im spacing out thinking of the records that took me months to find and that i now no longer have.

instructions for all windows based here

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...utorial62.html

thanks man, ill hope for thge best.

this helps but i still dont know how to get those hidden files back to normal on my ipod. ill bring it to an apple store or something, im not giving up

delete the stuff off the ipod and put the new unhidden files back onto the ipod

I like my iPod, and I don't get why so many people seem to hate them (except batreleaser, he has an excuse). The thing that annoys me with mine is the play count - sometimes it won't update, and I like to see how many times I've listened to something; for example, I listened to Absolutego three times, but it doesn't show that in the play count. But that probably isn't important.

Not probably... It isn't important at all. I liked my ipod but it only lasted four years. I just use my nokia now and i don't have to carry two things.

o i love the idea of portabilizing my collection, dont like the idea of losing 24,000 songs.

My main issue with ipods, and I strongly doubt anyone on this forum is guilty of this, but "kids these days" can't even fucking listen too one song for it's full duration without flicking between tracks, let alone listen to a full album in it's entirity. Basically they're killing the ultimate music artform. End of.

This just means I won't get daily updates on the development of Ghost-Pop and Synth-Folk the way I used to. Damn.

so get this, i am dragging my files out that i found in the hidden folders, then the comp freezes agfain, so i do the same shit, now the files are GONE. period.

there is a program for macs called podworks that is invaluable for transferring files from ipod to desktop.

unfortunately, I do not think that they make a version for pc, and dragging files from My Documents is iffy at best.

I've seen programs at office depot a few years back that claimed to work, but I don't know how well. I believe they were about $20. that might be worth it if yr talking about a lot of tunes.

my guess is yr file registry is somehow corrupted. it's doubtful a pc-side error would corrupt all of the files on yr ipod. it would take forever to write over them.

ps: I have had my 30gig iPod for almost four years and have never experienced a problem with it. sadly, my trusty friend is being traded out for an 80gig (classic) this friday. once I'm finished filling up those extra 50gigs, I'm sure my sadness will subside.

Illegal downloads ? Shit, mp3 ought to be illegal for it's OWN sake !!

Too bad about the music loss, but it WAS mp3. Now just go out and get the real thing. FULL FILE.

 

That sucks, man. I know quite a few people this has happened to, or their hard drive crashed and they lost everything or whatever. That's why I never leave anything I downloaded on a shitty, easy-to-break little device. I burn that shit immediately if I can. I'm not the best person to talk about this though, as I have no idea how to use an ipod or a cell phone.

Hey batreleaser do you not have those files on your computer? Or do you just put them to your ipod and delete them?

Personally, I don't like using ipods... the ability to switch albums and songs SO easily sort of... cheapens the effect of the music to me. And I know I can easily switch albums on my desktop computer but it's a lil different.

you can easily switch albums whenever you put them on your hifi too, you just walk over to the stereo and change them over, simple as that.

what's that?

ha ha hilarious thread.
I'm getting my first ipod for my birthday in september.
but the backup of all my music is backed up on a back up that is backed up, also.

silverbacks

A one terrabyte harddrive will hold about 1300 65-70 minute FULL WAV FILE cd's. BUT, I would ALSO back that up on smaller 250-320 gig harddrives just so if one went el broko I'd still have the others. Then quickly transfer whatever you lost from the alternative storage device.

Or try Carbonite or another "offsight" storage facility. It may be too expensive or not allow enough data storage though.

http://www.devlounge.net/webapps/sav...ackup-services

I have about fifty 1.5tb external hard drives in a big stack in my room, each one with a piece of huge tape listing every single album written in sharpie.

That's not true.

and by silverbacks I meant I am neutral on the subject of ipods. I do wonder about earbud headphones though. Wasn't there a mammoth deal in the late 80s/ early 90s about how much more damaging bud type phones are to your hearing?

but who wants to spend all that time ripping their shit to a hard drive, and for what purpose anyway?

I like the backup. I can take my HD elsewhere and play my music from that, as an alternative to an iPod. I trust them more. Once your music is ripped, the data transfers are lickity split.

As far as offsight, that's a no brainer. If YOUR storage device fails, you could retrieve it from them.

It's a labor of LOVE ! :p

I backup all my music, photos and data. It's easy and I do it simultaneously as I'm online anyway. It's no problem at all.

You people who are TOO busy, you need to simplify and direct your passions toward a qualitive focused pursuit. Mine is music. I'm anal about it, but not much else, 'cept for peaceful solace.

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only lost 2500 out of 24,000. i can live with that, thats probably like one song off maybe half the records. lets just hope i still have "express way to yr skull".