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DudeEMETIB · 07-13-2010, 08:18 PM

This is almost completely unrelated to your question....but because I just found that this worked for me (for a completely different iPod problem) I figured I'd post on this thread..

I don't know about you guys, but one problem I face almost always eventually with an iPod (I've had like four or five iPods in the past four of five years) is that something will happen to it....after I drop it or sometimes completely on its own...it stops playing music, or maybe it'll "play" a song but every song just auto-skips to the next...or it'll have music and podcasts on it but it'll say "no music" but still indicated that it's however much full (like it truly is)....and this is how it starts then eventually when I plug it in....iTunes says it needs to be restored..fine..let's try

and it's happened to probably every iPod I've owned...it'll "eject" itself before Restoring can take place....it's like it purposely does NOT allow itself to get restored or something...and I'll try a million babillion times, and nothing.

Same thing happened to me last night with my current iPod...I was pissed....I was using Media Monkey (cause I fucking hate iTunes and MediaMonkey is way better) and updating my iPod with Monday's KATG and other podcasts...when in the middle of updating my iPod ejects itself...and the scenario listed above happened...it won't play anything because it says I have no songs no podcasts on it....though it's barely got any space left.

I tried the iTunes restore thing 20 times, nothing worked...I tried resetting the iPod...didn't do anything, disc mode, nope, nothing...

I connect it again to my laptop...open up MediaMonkey cause I figured I'll just let KATG play from there as I lie in bed, when I decide to check something out for kicks...

I right clicked on my iPod on the MediaMonkey source/menu thing....and selected "Rebuild Device Database" it took a few minutes, but after it finished I ejected the iPod...looked at it

PERFECT
Completely fixed.

I've had to return iPods under warranty, buy new ones, so many times because of this problem....and bam MediaMonkey fixed it.
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07-13-2010, 08:18 PM	#4 (permalink)
DudeEMETIB Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 1,599	This is almost completely unrelated to your question....but because I just found that this worked for me (for a completely different iPod problem) I figured I'd post on this thread.. I don't know about you guys, but one problem I face almost always eventually with an iPod (I've had like four or five iPods in the past four of five years) is that something will happen to it....after I drop it or sometimes completely on its own...it stops playing music, or maybe it'll "play" a song but every song just auto-skips to the next...or it'll have music and podcasts on it but it'll say "no music" but still indicated that it's however much full (like it truly is)....and this is how it starts then eventually when I plug it in....iTunes says it needs to be restored..fine..let's try and it's happened to probably every iPod I've owned...it'll "eject" itself before Restoring can take place....it's like it purposely does NOT allow itself to get restored or something...and I'll try a million babillion times, and nothing. Same thing happened to me last night with my current iPod...I was pissed....I was using Media Monkey (cause I fucking hate iTunes and MediaMonkey is way better) and updating my iPod with Monday's KATG and other podcasts...when in the middle of updating my iPod ejects itself...and the scenario listed above happened...it won't play anything because it says I have no songs no podcasts on it....though it's barely got any space left. I tried the iTunes restore thing 20 times, nothing worked...I tried resetting the iPod...didn't do anything, disc mode, nope, nothing... I connect it again to my laptop...open up MediaMonkey cause I figured I'll just let KATG play from there as I lie in bed, when I decide to check something out for kicks... I right clicked on my iPod on the MediaMonkey source/menu thing....and selected "Rebuild Device Database" it took a few minutes, but after it finished I ejected the iPod...looked at it PERFECT Completely fixed. I've had to return iPods under warranty, buy new ones, so many times because of this problem....and bam MediaMonkey fixed it. and __________________ Steam ID:EddieFSM PSN:EddieFSM Last.FM Facebook Secretary of State, KATG Film Club
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