Re: More iPod BS


MoParMaN wrote:
> "Dennis" <drjudsjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:44esp1l39jdfcpcuq01m14ic5do2ski8nt@xxxxxxxxxx
> > "Tom Enright" <freddy_hayek@xxxxxxxxx> You're digging it round, when
> > it aughta Be SQUARE
> >
> >>
> >>I've decided to have another go at that piece of crap
> >>known as my iPod. I think the wife is a bit disappointed
> >>that I haven't been using it very often.
> >>
> >>So I go on iTunes buy a few more songs, plug the iPod
> >>into the USB port and my experience has told me to
> >>expect a few different reactions from my iPod:
> >>
> >>The circle with a diagonal slash through it, the universal
> >>sign for "Don't" blinking on and off with the words "Do not
> >>disconnect" written underneath. This means nothing.
> >>Sometimes it results in the iPod syncing, sometimes not,
> >>sometimes the battery charges sometimes not.
> >>
> >>The blinking battery. AFAIK this means it is charging.
> >>Which means it may be charging and it may not be.
> >>I'll go to bed, wake up, put it in my pocket and it will
> >>be dead. Sometimes it lasts a one hour, sometimes
> >>three days. It's a crap shoot.
> >>
> >>Okay, the "Update iPod" in iTunes under the "File"
> >>pick is grayed-out, of course, because I want to
> >>update my iPod. Sometimes at the top of iTunes
> >>"Updating iPod" appears. This means that the iPod
> >>is updating, except for when it isn't. In which case
> >>the words may or may not be there.
> >>
> >>My question is is there some way to force your iPod
> >>to update? I can plug-in the USB and there may be
> >>some indication it is updating but I never really know.
> >>
> >>BTW: The help site, directions and manuals are useless.
> >>Suprise! Nothing to tell me how to monitor the update or
> >>figure-out if an update is actually going on. Most of the
> >>help I find is: "Look at the 'Source' in iTunes pick the name
> >>of your iPod...." of course the name of my iPod is not
> >>in the "Source" list so rsfc them.
> >>
> >>BTW: Have I mentioned iPods really, really suck? I
> >>mean they suck. A lot.
> >>
> >>BBTW: Also, somehow, about 20 of the songs I purchased
> >>simply vanished. Not there anymore. The names are still
> >>my library but the actual file is gone. That's pretty neat.
> >>A complete search of my system finds nothing.
> >>
> >>-Tom Enright
> >
> UT oH! I got TSH a 30GB Ipod thingy for Christmas, the one with video, are
> you saying the average stoopid Okie Engine is gonna have problems turning
> the damn thing on?? I is doomed.

I got the wife unit a nano. So I'm wondering the same thing.

The trick is to get her out of the damb house long enough for me to
plug it in, charge it up, and load some songs to verify it works before
Christmas morning so there's still time to return it and get her
something else if it turns out to be a bust (which is a real possbility
considering we only have a win xp machine with usb 1.1 and firewire,
the latter being no longer supported by ipods).

.

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