Any hope to salvage my 2nd Gen iPod Shuffle?
May 28, 2010 11:47 AM Subscribe
Any hope to salvage my 2nd Gen iPod Shuffle?
Last night, I tried to change the music on my 2nd Generation iPod Shuffle. I pulled music off, but the iPod was insisting the space was still "taken" (no, I wasn't storing anything else on it).
It still played the songs that were still on it (the deleted ones were not there), but it kept saying there was space taken up.
So I tried restoring it, to no luck. Then I tried updating the firmware.
Well. Then iTunes started giving me errors whenever I tried to access it. I found a troubleshooting page, updated all my dll's which supposedly was an issue with XP + 2nd Gen shuffles, still no go. I tried uninstalling iTunes and the iPod folders and reinstalling an older version.
Still no go.
I read that if you format the iPod, iTunes will go, "Hey, this needs to be restored". So I did, iTunes tried, and still failed.
So now- no music, it doesn't show up as an external drive on XP (it shows up on Ubuntu, empty), and iTunes can't even restore or access it.
Anyone got any ideas? Ideally I'd love to play music on it again. If not that, can it be made still useable as a flash drive?
Yes, I am researching alternate mp3 players right now.
Last night, I tried to change the music on my 2nd Generation iPod Shuffle. I pulled music off, but the iPod was insisting the space was still "taken" (no, I wasn't storing anything else on it).
It still played the songs that were still on it (the deleted ones were not there), but it kept saying there was space taken up.
So I tried restoring it, to no luck. Then I tried updating the firmware.
Well. Then iTunes started giving me errors whenever I tried to access it. I found a troubleshooting page, updated all my dll's which supposedly was an issue with XP + 2nd Gen shuffles, still no go. I tried uninstalling iTunes and the iPod folders and reinstalling an older version.
Still no go.
I read that if you format the iPod, iTunes will go, "Hey, this needs to be restored". So I did, iTunes tried, and still failed.
So now- no music, it doesn't show up as an external drive on XP (it shows up on Ubuntu, empty), and iTunes can't even restore or access it.
Anyone got any ideas? Ideally I'd love to play music on it again. If not that, can it be made still useable as a flash drive?
Yes, I am researching alternate mp3 players right now.
I had something similar happen with my 2nd generation iPod touch 3 different times. iTunes insisted the device had 7GB of media on it, but the iPod showed nothing. Nothing I did to the iPod helped, including cycling the power. But, when I powered the iPod off, then powered the PC off too, then turned them both back on and resynced, that solved the problem on all 3 occasions. Hope it works for you too!
posted by Vorteks at 12:05 PM on May 28, 2010
posted by Vorteks at 12:05 PM on May 28, 2010
Response by poster: Nope. Still giving me error messages. I'm also exploring some alternate music programs that can sync to iPods to see if any of them can get it working.
posted by yeloson at 6:02 PM on May 28, 2010
posted by yeloson at 6:02 PM on May 28, 2010
my shuffle went all whack the last time i tried to program it, too. i am highly suspecting that the two most recent iterations of iTunes aren't the super "we fixed it!!!"s they are hyped to be. i'm on a mac, and i can't really tell you how i got it going again; some combination of restoring/rebooting/button banging/swear words. good luck!!
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 6:37 PM on May 28, 2010
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 6:37 PM on May 28, 2010
Response by poster: Multiple tries, still busted. I picked up a Sansa Clip+ today. Also playing around with other music programs that will best serve my needs.
I'm still open for salvage ideas, though I suspect as a player, it's a lost cause.
posted by yeloson at 3:49 PM on May 29, 2010
I'm still open for salvage ideas, though I suspect as a player, it's a lost cause.
posted by yeloson at 3:49 PM on May 29, 2010
Late to return, I would suggest hooking the iPod up to another computer and trying the reset utility. If you can wake the iPod out of its zombie state, it should hook back up to your main computer once again.
Failing that, you may be out of luck.
posted by Hiker at 6:45 AM on May 31, 2010
Failing that, you may be out of luck.
posted by Hiker at 6:45 AM on May 31, 2010
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