ipod music transefer help

Wait, you stored all your music only on the iPod? Why would you need to re-rip all your CDs?

It SOUNDS like iTunes was just doing a Sound Check scan? Or maybe a gapless scan? Either way, I don't think it's "IRREGULAR." Did you hit the little X button next to the progress bar when it was running? I think it's something iTunes does when an iPod is connected that Winamp doesn't, and then you yanked it out in the middle of a process. And you were SURPRISED when it was corrupted?

Which gen iPod do you have?

In the end, you're using an iPod with an unsupported (by Apple) user-created plugin for a third-party program. If it fucks up, that's kind of on YOU, and I wouldn't act so surprised. But, a little more information (and a little less conjecture on your part) would be helpful.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

iTunes is great. I love it. Especially version 7. So no, I won't.

And besides, "just pulling out" any USB mounted device is asking for trouble. You should always go through the safely disconnect thing first.

And finally, the iPod isn't meant to be a storage device for music, it's meant to be a portable music player. You really should get a larger hard drive to put in your computer. I mean, think about it—the 1.8" drive in your iPod is not meant to be used constantly, as it is when it's plugged into your PC. It's meant to spin up every once in a while to fill the memory cache for playback portably. If you drop the iPod while its hard drive is spun up, you might kill the drive, and then you lose everything you have. Not a good situation.

In any event, I'm chalking this up to user error: you didn't know how to cancel the process in iTunes (which you can do, a little x in a circle will appear in the "LCD" area whenever an ongoing process engages, which you can click to stop that process), and it sounds like you just yanked out the dock cable while it was mounted and processing. Both of these are Bad™ things to do.

One way to disable that "determining song volume" thing is to turn off Sound Check in iTunes' preferences.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Sosei

I personally don't like iTunes 7 (runs slow as fuck on my computer, retardedly wants to check gapless playback when I don't even use it - no option to stop it besides clicking the 'x' and hogs memory like a raped Firefox left open over the span of a month) even though I use it anyway because I like to stay updated - although that's not what the OP asked XD

I am surprised there's no option to turn off gapless (just checked for it myself)... then again, considering it's something so many people seemed to bitch REALLY LOUDLY about (especially here), I guess I'm not entirely surprised. In any event, that's a one-time process, which checks your library for gapless information. From then on it'll just do it real quick as you import or add stuff. And, I guess it'd hog memory if you used CoverFlow all the time, but that shit's just fucking logic. I've had it open for a couple weeks now, and it's chilling at 40MB, so. Have you gotten the 7.0.1 update? I heard that resolved a number of hitchy/memory consuming behaviors on the Windows side for a number of people.

Merv Burger: Typical elitist Windows user bullshit. I'm not sure I should expect anything more from you, since you're clearly out for blood whenever I post anyway. EARTH TO YOU: You are not who matters in the Windows world. You are a tiny portion of the computer using public. The massive, overwhelming population of computer users knows far less than you. They don't care about memory usage (which is retarded to get one's panties in a wad about considering how cheap and plentiful RAM is these days) or have some huge anti-Apple/QuickTime/iTunes bias. They use what's easy and provides a level of functionality they need. They neither know nor care about esoteric formats like OGG or FLAC or APE or whatnot. So, you can use whatever you like, that's great. But I don't understand your militant need to hate everything I like. In sum: Go fuck yourself.

How ya doing, buddy?

Just the update took an hour? By itself? ...Jesus fuck, man, what have you done to your computer?! That's WAY outside what I'd consider normal.

Well, even I wouldn't run a machine with less than a GB these days, if only because the combined weight of everything I want to do at once takes more than that to be comfortable (or, on occasion, the weight of the ONE thing I need to do). One thing that I find helps is closing the iTunes window but leaving iTunes running. I guess I don't know if you can do that in Windows. Then again, I've got global hotkeys set up for play/pause/next/prev, so...

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