iPod, iTunes, and Quicktime Problems
 

My brother hooked his iPod up to our computer for the first time in a long time last night. After disconnecting it this morning, he found that all his songs had been deleted from it. When I checked the information page, the iPod said that it had only 3 MG of 4 GB space free, so even though it didn't have any songs, the iPod acted as if it was full to capacity.

He decided to restore the iPod to factory settings and then manually put all his music back on the iPod. However, while trying to do this, he decided to download the latest version of iTunes. Now, whenever we try to open iTunes we get an error message tNewer hat reads "Newer Version of QuickTime is Required; QuickTime version 7.0.2 is installed, iTunes requires 7.1.3 or higher.

Please reinstall iTunes."

We downloaded the latest version of QuickTime, and tried iTunes again, but got the same message! So I opened QuickTime and checked "Help>>about" and it turns out that, yes, we are still running 7.0.2, even though I upgraded!

What do I do? Do I reinstall iTunes? Should I back up my music before I do that?

This is basically a huge crisis, and time is of the essence. It's up to you, Gamingforce! Godspeed.

I hate QT/iTunes. Constant source of problems for me. When syncing to iPods, I use J.River Media Center 11. Works perfectly without all the BS of iTunes. And no quicktime required.

If I were you, I'd just Rockbox my iPod and forget about iTunes forever.

Best thing I ever did for myPod. (Hah)

Well, iTunes and Quicktime on Windows PC is crap... not doubt.

Best thing to do is uninstall both iTunes and Quicktime completely, then reboot, then download the latest versions on iTunes and QT directly and install them one after the other. Then try connecting the iPod etc.

I found this siteforJ river
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/features.html

is there a free version? And is there anyway to move music onto the ipod without using itunes?