iTunes Problem -- please help?

206 songs, that is.

Thanks, John! I'll try that!

Careful about erasing songs from the iPod.

Be careful with this. I was having a similar problem and after I transferred songs to my iPod (some that had been bought from iTunes, some that hadn't) a bunch of the original files became corrupted.

I'm recomending to all my friends that they sort by "file size" and check to make sure that the same thing isn't happening to them. I had a bunch of songs change to 'Stream" and become unplayable.

No one at Apple's been able to help me and I've confirmed this has happened to at least one of my friends.

And while you're at it:

http://hymn-project.org/

Get rid of that Apple DRM.

Did it. Downloaded the updater. Installed it. Re-started. STILL HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM!

Clearly, the only solution.....

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-09-28%2011.46.43%20-0700/Image-1E4CB161305011DA.jpg

iPod? DiEPoD!!!!

Alex, please don't point that at me if I ask the stupid "is it plugged in"-type question...

When you say you've already installed iTunes 5.0.1, I assume that's on your iMac.

Have you also downloaded and run iPod Updater 2005-09-23?

doh! stupidest post ever. I was distracted by the gun and FORGOT TO READ THE THREAD.

PATHETIC ATTEMPT TO MAKE UP FOR IDIOCY FOLLOWS

this thread suggests that restoring and resynching, while tedious, should do the trick (I'm assuming that there are no tracks on your ipod that are not also on your iMac)

http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118815

(Though elsewhere it appears as though the issue is known and even the iLounge wizzes are currently stumped)

http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=119466&highlight=5.0.1

heyyy that's an nyu door, isn't it? isn't it?! i'll never miss being locked behind those beige pieces of shit. and you use itunes to steal music from other people in the dorm, no? perhaps that is from whence your problem stems? nothing with the software, just God smiting you for your sins. just a thought.

Being that I'm 38 years old, I don't live an NYU dorm. I live very unfortunately close to NYU, but am not a student.

so is that a real gun in case some nyu lackey tries to buy you out of your building

I now have an iTunes problem, please help?:

I run Windows XP. When I try to install iTunes to the latest version (5.something), after downloading the installer and clicking on it, an Install Shield Wizard box pops up and says "Command Line Parameters:"and lists a bunch of them /s /v, etc. and has an OK button. When I press OK nothing happens. What is going on here and how do I fix it?

What more can I say than: Apple seriously effed everybody with this latest release. I tried to see the bright side on this one, but now that my iPod was the catalyst of corrupting everything it touched, well just as I "switched" from being a 10-year Mac veteran to a PC user, this might just be my last (after three generations, including the first) iPod.

how do you know your ipod currpted things? I'm interested in hearing more about that, because my harddrive with my itunes library on it (an external drive) has gotten corrupted TWICE lately and I've lost everything. something to do with the indexes on the drive getting screwed up. I wonder if itunes had something to do with that, or how the ipod accessed those files when I'd synch?

anyway I'm not going to upgrade to this new version, that's for sure.

I'd jsut use winamp for everything but for some reason it suddenly stopped being able to read anything on my ipod except for two albums.

By the way, my prob was easily fixed by opening the iTunesSetUp.exe in winrar. Who knows why this works.

alex, with regards to your original problem: hopefully my tale of woe will help.

i got the same message, so i downloaded the iPod updater from Software Update. this, unhelpfully, installs not onto the desktop or anywhere you might expect, but into /Applications/Utilities/iPod Software Updater.

run it, then hook up your iPod. close the first, unhelpful, window with lots of pictures of iPods. press the "update" button and - with luck - it'll update.

if you're unlucky, it'll say "Cannot find firmware image". DO NOT DO WHAT I DID and go on a spree of downloading the updater again/discovering you can't re-install it/repairing all your permissions/running disk first aid from the startup CD/eventually realising it's because there's a receipt file for the installer/realising this doesn't solve your original problem/weeping softly/searching the archive at iPodLounge until you find a solution/e-mailing apple feedback (and phil schiller, for the hell of it), to say: "APPLE, YOU HAVE BECOME CUNTS, AND YOUR LOYAL USERS ARE BEGINNING TO HATE YOU."

instead go straight to the Options menu and click Update in there. for some reason, that will work perfectly.

an hour of my life wasted. thanks, apple.

I'm having the same problem as the original person in this thread. I have Powerbook G4 15" with Tiger and a 3rd generation iPod. Since upgrading to iTunes 5, the songs that I've purchased from the Apple music store have not been able to transfer.

I have run the iPod updater (9-23-05), restarted the laptop, etc.

what did the iPod Updater say when you ran it? did the iPod itself - not the laptop - display a little progress bar and do some whirring and clunking? run the updater again and plug the iPod in *after* starting it: does the updater still tell you it needs to update? if so, try selecting "update" from the options menu, not just the grey button.

i know, i know: it's all ridiculous chicken-bone-shaking. but eventually i got it to work.

grimly fiendish is right: Just downloading the update will not update the ipod. You actually need to click on "Update" when the button appears giving you the choice of that or "Restore."

I was wondering why my mac kept telling me that I needed to update my ipod software when I knew I had downloaded it!

this isn't really an iTunes problem, but if someone out there can get this:

http://www.paraesthesia.com/blog/comments.php?id=791_0_1_0_C

to work, let me know, because it would make my life so much easier. I downloaded junction, put it in my path (i put it in c:\), but going to my My Music directory and running junction iTunes C:\path_to_shared_music just doesn't do a thing.....

Every time I open iTunes now, it won't play any songs unless I quit after opening, then force quit, and re-open it. I have my music library on an external drive. Is there some kind of defragmentation process I need to go through?

On a side note, I just wiped out my iPod somehow. I think I tried to transfer a corrupted file onto it and it really hated me for it so it completely wiped out to show me who's boss. Okay, iPod, you're the boss, I get it. But also, I was close to the 10% threshold of fullness, and I have been doing a lot of monkeying around with transferring and editing isolated files on my baby, and I've never run any defragmentation on it, not to mention I dropped it recently. Whatever, I'd really just like my original question answered, but I figured someone out there may have some knowledge to share on the subject of obliterated iPods.

I don't know if anyone else has this problems, or if it will help any of the problems mentioned here, but here's what sometimes happens to me & my iPod:

About three or four times, when I've reconnected my iPod to my Mac, I have received a warning that the device cannot be read. After much dicking around with update software, i've discovered a cure:

I unplug the iPod and charge it at the wall using the adapter. A couple of hours later, I plug it in and all is OK. I assume it's a low battery thing (it is rather old).

iTunes doesn't pick up my iPod properly. I think it is a USB problem and I need to do a clean install of XP.

SUCKS

davidsim, that sounds like a hard drive problem on the Pod. Try running Disk Utility and opt to 'repair' the Pod's drive. You can also reformat it from here, but repairing might solve your problem.

(When drives are suddenly not able to be read, it's often due to corruption in files that allow the disk to be read - all the data is there, and the disk is fine, it's just that its front door is locked, if you get me.)

Maybe I wasn't being too clear when I said I "wiped out" my iPod. What happened is that I had been having a lot of problems getting my Mac to recognize my iPod. The iPod was also freezing up a lot so I had to force-restart it. Finally, yesterday, it totally crashed and just wiped out (cleared) the harddrive. It would still start up, but with no files on it. When I got home, I tried to restore it, but now my Mac won't recognize it at all. Apparently the restore procedure was unsucessful. Guess I'm heading to the "genius" bar tomorrow.

The crappy ipods. I have just spent 8 hours sorting out a problem where itunes loses the CD drive during installation. Eventually downloaded the latest version to the hard disk, and after hacking the registry I appear to have it all working. What crappy software, but hey that is what the hype is all about

itunes loses the cd drive? what does that mean?

ian, how in the world did you manage to do that?

If you can't get junction working, try putting the second argument (the junction target) in quotes - that made the difference for me.

C:\Documents and Settings\Rachel\My Documents\My Music> c:\junction iTunes "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music\iTunes"