I have an older Video iPod (30GB) that just kicked the shits and refused to recognise any of the music on it. iTunes lists it as having 20GB of 'Other' data on it, which registered as Music prior to the fuck about. What I'm chasing is a way to make the device recognise the music on it.

I have my iPod set to sync manually, but just prior to the issue a small pop up appeared telling me that the iPod was syncing after I exited iTunes. After this, all music disappeared from the iPod's menus.

I'm a bit leery of restoring the original settings without more knowledge, because if I lose the music I have I'm losing seven years of songs from multiple iTunes libraries with no recourse for getting them back.

So yeah, help me DLP, you're my only hope.

 

Try to copy the music to your PC with Sharepod, restore original settings and put the music back on it. That's the easiest solution I can think of, if Sharepod still recognizes the music.

 

Downloaded Sharepod and tried it out, but it just gives me an error message whenever I try to use it. About the closest thing to an Apple support store where I live is a mob called 'Mac Doctors', so I'll hit them up. Got the iPod in '06 so I'm not hopeful for a replacement, but I'll be ecstatic if I can just recover my music. Cheers for the help guys.

 

Don't know if you're interested in an alternative solution, but I've got the same model running Rockbox so I can listen to FLACs and such. iTunes mangles the filenames but you might be able to get at them that way.