Yet Another iPod Question

[Moniz Family]

Jason Shein wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2008 08:42:05 pm Moniz Family wrote:
>   
>> All of the songs diasappeared from the ipod. However, they were all
>> visible and playable with Amarok and gtkpod. If I added or removed a
>> song with one player, the change would show up on the other. But nothing
>> in the ipod. The usage reading in the ipod was showing "Other" as being
>> used, but not "Audio". I deleted all of the songs and the usage of
>> "other" went way down. The songs were there, but not registered as an
>> Audio file.
>>
>> I figure the itunes database must have gotten corrupted.
>>     
>
> That is correct. This is the issue I found when working with the new iPods. 
> The color of the ipod determines some type of encoding for the database, 
> which is why the proper color must be chosen in order to work. When I use my 
> daughters 8gb iPod nano ( green ) with gtkpod, and choose the only 8gb option 
> available ( silver ) it corrupts the database every time, and needs to be 
> wiped by iTunes.
If my daughter had followed my instructions (your instructions) and 
picked up the silver one, I guess I would not be having this problem. 
But to be fair, she was fooled by the salesman in the store.

John.

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