Re: [Hampshire] Losing data on iPod

Vic wrote:
>> For my birthday, Laura my girlfriend got me an iPod shuffle
>>
>
> OK - first up, I have no knowledge of the Shuffle. 'Er Indoors has a Video
> iPod; I'm assuming that these are smiilar, and that might be a huge
> mistake :-)
>
>
>> Now, it almost works absolutely fine, except I mysteriously lost a
>> load of songs from it yesterday. I put this down to it auto-mounting
>> with the wrong character set.
>>
>
> Are the tracks stored in files on the Shuffle? The 5th generation units
> use a database-type affair. This sorts out namespace collisions nicely
> (you can have as many tracks called "Song 2" as you like - whether they're
> by Blur or not), but means you need the right tools to talk to it...
>
>
>> I'm using Ubuntu Edgy
>>
>
> How are you talking to the unit?
>
> In Linux, I use gtkPod, which is just fabulous. But on Windows, you're
> stuck with iTunes (AFAIK, anyway) - and iTunes does not play well with
> others...
>
> If you've added a number of items with something else (like gtkPod), the
> next time you allow iTunes to "sync" (which is probably done automatically
> when next you plug the iPod in), you will get exactly what it says on the
> tin - a synchronised copy of what iTunes has as its "library". So anything
> that was on the iPod but not in iTunes is now history. I've lost a lot of
> data[1] that way.
>
> gtkPod, by comparison, has a quick moan about not being told what you're
> up to, then goes about sorting itself out.
>
> Vic.
>
>
> [1] Videos. iTunes won't see the stuff I encoded as valid video files. So
> I put them onto the iPod with gtkPod, and it plays them *flawlessly*. And
> the next time the iPod is plugged in to iTunes, they're all wiped.
>

Not especially helpful ion this instance I know, but consider the
competition next time around. I have an iAudio X5 that simply shows up
as a hard drive. I copy stuff across into the 'MUSIC' folder, using any
operating system that supports USB, and it works. It looks good, sounds
good, it's built to withstand rough handling, and it supports oggs.

Sean