Today, my 4th generation 40GB, click wheel, iPod was erased. Needless to say I was shocked. It is perhaps the most depressing/confusing/stupefying moment in recent memory. I don't know what or how to think about it? Either I am completely crazy for caring so much about nothing more than a little music toy, or this is a completely justified reaction, considering that I lost almost 5,000 mp3's and the iPod has long been my main method of listening to music.
My iPod has been acting kind of strange lately, as of about two days ago (i.e. playing the last part of the previous track in the beginning of the next one.) This morning while shuffling Led Zeppelin songs for about a half an hour, it just stopped, returned to the start screen. I quickly just chose another artist to "song shuffle, all albums" (Oasis, if you must know). It began shuffling alright-- without any music playing, and skipping through each track for about a second (just long enough to read the names)! I pulled it off my sounddock and decided to connect it to my iBook (via dock) to erase some artists (the Fiery Furnaces latest album sucks). Low and behold, the computer came up with a "! Disk insertion Error" kinda like this...
Since I just moved forward by clicking "ignore," I might have lost my chance to eject the pod correctly, but I'm not so sure--it didn't show up at all in iTunes or on the desktop, as icon. So, not knowing exactly what to do, I hastily pulled the pod off dock and I saw the Apple icon, indicating the reset function, only this was not the usual reset, this was the kind of reset back to "factory settings" erasing everything I had in an instant! -where the first screen you see is the "Language" selection, as if it had never been used before. So my iPod is not "broken" by most meanings of the word, but it has been erased and is no longer recognizable by my computer. I guess that means it's broken, though, huh?
Maybe none of this would have happened if I hadn't called in sick to work today.(?) Thankfully I do have 6.7GB of music backed up on my harddrive (including all my Stones, Beatles, Dylan, and Zeppelin albums). In the end, music is replaceable, which I guess means this isn't the end of the world, just a shitty feeling.
3 comments:
Sick day eh?
Urgh! That totally sucks. I have had nothing but issues with my ipods. I have the mini and the nano. The mini does the same thing you said yours was doing, where songs show for a second and never play and the nano randomly locks and won't unlock. Both were acting up this past weekend and it is really hard to run with out one. The most annoying part is that there is no reason for this, it is almost like they just do it when they feel like it. They are so great, but so delicate.
An ipod is way more than a "a little music toy" as you can see. I've
been worrried about such a thing from the beginning. This is another
good reason to purchase an external hardrive, a small price to pay to
preserve what might as well be an entire record collection. Good luck.
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