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Files in Password Protected Directories

Haven't seen mention of this but just found it today. If I browse to my website and authenticate into a password protected directory or directories I can get in fine, access protected content. However, If I want to play an mp3 file through it, I get an error. Lift the password restriction on the directory and the files play fine. Have not tried other formats.

Nothing major, but I would love to use the WiFi capability to use shared resources. I am password protecting the directory in anticipation that I will be putting more private information there in the future for Touch access.

-John
 
BiG PRoBLeM NuMBeR eiGHT

I have no idea if it's the new firmware or not, but I've noticed that I have a lot of problems on the Touch I never ran into before the update or on any other iPods I've owned. Here's a list of what I have encountered so far, feel free to add your own.

1. Songs not playing (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/364122/, and https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/363464/)
2. Smart Playlists not working, seems like the iPod does not sync up the play counts from iTunes (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/363398/)
3. Songs finish playing then repeat the same song (without actually playing the song) instead of going to the next song
4. Cover art not displaying (could be that it just takes a while to load, but sometimes it'll just never load anything at all, no matter how long I wait)
5. While browsing in coverflow, after a certain point the screen will black out and take me back to the home screen. I've replicated this, so it must be some sort of problem with a certain cover art, or maybe the files are too big, or it's just loaded too much or something.
6. Wi-fi not being able to connect to access points. In the same place where I know there's a good signal, it just won't connect at all, and I'll have to turn the iPod off completely, then power it back up and try again and it will work flawlessly like usual. (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/362136/)
7. Music stops playing randomly while browsing Safari at the same time
8. Random disable time
This one is very rare, although this is he second time it's happened to me. The first time i was listening when it stopped playing. I looked at it and it showed a 15 minute lock time. Confused i waited the 15 minutes and started listening to music again. That was about 3 months ago. Last night i finished listening to my ipod touch, so i put it in my bedside drawer. This morning i took it out the drawer and started to charge it. When i looked at the screen it said i had a :eek:4560220:eek: minute disable time! This is (i did this all in my head so don't get mad if it's wrong :) ) equivalent to 76003.666 hours, or 3166.82 days. THE TOTAL AMOUNT IN YEARS IS ABOUT 8.68 YEARS!!! Whats the point of having an iPod for 6months if it's just gonna freeze itself for the next 8 years. IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME FIX THIS PLeASE TELL ME. I am going to see if i can get it fixed/replaced tomorrow, but if they can't fix it and won't replace it then screw you :apple:A:apple:PP:apple:LE:apple: jk but i will be annoyed
 
8. Random disable time
This one is very rare, although this is he second time it's happened to me. The first time i was listening when it stopped playing. I looked at it and it showed a 15 minute lock time. Confused i waited the 15 minutes and started listening to music again. That was about 3 months ago. Last night i finished listening to my ipod touch, so i put it in my bedside drawer. This morning i took it out the drawer and started to charge it. When i looked at the screen it said i had a :eek:4560220:eek: minute disable time! This is (i did this all in my head so don't get mad if it's wrong :) ) equivalent to 76003.666 hours, or 3166.82 days. THE TOTAL AMOUNT IN YEARS IS ABOUT 8.68 YEARS!!! Whats the point of having an iPod for 6months if it's just gonna freeze itself for the next 8 years. IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME FIX THIS PLeASE TELL ME. I am going to see if i can get it fixed/replaced tomorrow, but if they can't fix it and won't replace it then screw you :apple:A:apple:PP:apple:LE:apple: jk but i will be annoyed

sounds like you'll have to restore it.
 
Genius is no so genius

Genius sucks . Every song I try for genius saids something like doesn't have enough songs related or something like that . I'm even trying songs like single ladies , some lil wayne songs , hits or today and still get nothing WTF ? Anyone elese have this problem ?
 
Genius sucks . Every song I try for genius saids something like doesn't have enough songs related or something like that . I'm even trying songs like single ladies , some lil wayne songs , hits or today and still get nothing WTF ? Anyone elese have this problem ?

Do you have the proper tags for the songs? Have you updated genius since you added those songs?
 
My WiFi has also stopped working entirely since updating. The loading circle just loops endlessly without ever finding networks where I know they exist or deciding that there aren't any. I hadn't tried a hard reset yet, so maybe that'll work. Seems like Apple has quite the dud update on their hands here.
 
i pod

does any one have a problem turning their i pod on ?? coz my one wont turn on and it wont charge ??
 
Doesn't look good

I know i am a little late

whenever i go to music on my 1G ipod touch, it shows the first or so song highlited in blue. even when i scroll the same thing happens:confused:. Any others out there?
 
Ipod touch problem

Alright so i come home to play mafia on my ipod and it doesnt work. So i try to turn it off and suddenly a white screen pops up. It does not say anything. It finally goes blank so i pull it out of its case to check on it and WOW! It was burning up so it was burning up even tho all i did was turn it off and the power plug was not in. Im not sure what was up it was very strange. Has any one else had this problem???
 
I have no idea if it's the new firmware or not, but I've noticed that I have a lot of problems on the Touch I never ran into before the update or on any other iPods I've owned. Here's a list of what I have encountered so far, feel free to add your own.
[..long list..]
Note that I'm not complaining, well I sorta am, but the point of this isn't to say "the iPod Touch sucks", it's more of a wishlist of bugs I hope they iron out in the next firmware update. Luckily it's mostly minor stuff, but there shouldn't be any problems with music working and the playlist problem is really annoying.

i haven't had any of those problems really with the new firmware, granted i haven't used my Touch a whole lot on the new firmware other than Music, Weather, Stocks and Email. but it's weird that you're getting all these little bugs everywhere...
 
IMO the 3 biggest problems with the ipod function:

1. Compilation artists show up in 'Artists' view mode. They should be hidden like in previous ipods, noone wants to see a whole bunch of random artists cluttering up their Artist view.

2. Smart playlists are broken. This is a dealbreaker for anyone who uses smart playlists extensively.

3. Albums with the same name get lumped as the same album in Cover Flow. Obvious bug which surely needs to be fixed pretty soon, most obviously affects 'Greatest Hits' albums.

For all you people have problems with that, it's understandable.
If you listen to Punk music at all, they do lots of splits (albums) and they obviously would get put in the same album.
If you have the same album name, they should clumped together in Cover Flow.
Just my 2 cents. :D
 
Caps lock on 2.2.1

Update--I fixed it! I remembered that I had to reset all settings and so the caps lock on toggle reverted to off. Found it in the keyboard settings under the iPod's general settings feature.

Is/did anyone else have a problem with the new 2.2.1 firmware? The only thing I've noticed is that I no longer have a CAPS lock option with my keyboard. :confused:

If this is something other than the upgrade, I'm open for suggestions.

Mallory
:apple:Macbook 2G 250G; Timecapsule 500G, iPodTouch (1G)

(btw--this is my first post, so I ask for your patience.)
 
I dunno if this can be counted as iPod Touch problem, but it doesn't activate iTune on my MBP whenever I connect it. I've got to manually open up iTunes, even though I've set the Touch to open iTunes whenever I connect.

I had this problem on my PC and the culprit was I turned off a background process called "iTunes Helper" that would run in the background all the time. When I turned it off, iTunes stopped opening when I plugged any of my iPods into my computer.

Once I finally figured out that this was the problem, I left it alone and let it run and have not had any trouble since.
 
Can somone please help!!???!!!

I have downloaded two apps but they haven't appeared on my pages. I can't redownload them coz every time I go on them in the store in the top corner where you press to buy I can't coz it's highlighted. Is there anything I can do to redownload them and is there a maximum amount of pages you can have

Please reply
 
I have downloaded two apps but they haven't appeared on my pages. I can't redownload them coz every time I go on them in the store in the top corner where you press to buy I can't coz it's highlighted. Is there anything I can do to redownload them and is there a maximum amount of pages you can have

Please reply

I believe there is a max page count but did you try re-downloading via your computer or the wireless store? You can re-download any app at no cost that you previously purchased.
 
Ok i have looked through the pages and i havent seen this issue that i have been experiencing with my new Touch.

Every time after i charge my iPod, none of my downloaded applications will open. I will click on one of them and the start up screen will appear for the app, but then it will disappear and i will be brought back to the main menu. Any suggestions as to why this is happening?
 
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