Disclaimer: This thread is not for people who want to complain about legality.
At tech today, I came out of class to have a friend come up to me and ask whether I had brought my computer in. "Yes," I reply. "Do you have any music on it?" "Why?"
He proceeds to pull out his iPod mini. My first reaction was "Is that real?"
"Nah, it's fake," he replies sarcastically. But I was amazed, I was really surprised to find a mini here in NZ. So I take a look at it - it's a 15 gig iPod, not a mini at all! This is the first time I'd ever seen one in person, and I'm still amazed at how small it is.
Anyway, it turns out that he was given the iPod, but the FireWire card he'd bought didn't like his computer. So he asked whether I could copy some music onto it for him. We went into the computer lab (where I had my G4 set up), and plugged it in.
First, iTunes popped up and informed me that there was newer iPod software available (I always run Software Update, even if I don't need the updates). So I clicked Yes, and the iPod Updater launched.
The iPod Updater proceeded to tell me that it could not update the iPod because it wasn't mounted on the desktop - although I could clearly see its icon. I clicked OK and it then told me that the update was successful - please do not disconnect the iPod, and wait for the update to complete. Meanwhile, the iPod screen has a big tick icon along with the message "OK to disconnect".
I waited a couple of minutes, and nothing happened, so I disconnected. I reconnected and tried again - same thing happened. So the third time, I decided not to perform the update. This time, it offered to synchronise my library, which would delete everything from the iPod. However, my friend had managed to get a few songs onto it, so I declined the offer and downloaded an iPod -> iTunes transfer utility.
After putting his songs into my iTunes, I let it synch, and it told me that my lossless files wouldn't work with his iPod, due to the older software. I let it go though anyway. It worked fine.
Then I realised that I could wipe the iPod and start from scratch, the music was all on my HD after all. So I started up the iPod Updater again, and selected to restore the iPod to its original state. It worked, the iPod actually responded with a progress bar this time.
Once the restore was complete, the iPod icon on my desktop changed - it now looked like an iPod rather than a generic disk. That got my hopes up, so I resynched, and it all worked fine
It was a bit of a mission though!
On a different note, I got home, started setting up my computer again, only to find that the girl I commute with had accidentally nicked off with my DVI -> VGA adapter
So she's on her way over now, and I'm typing this on the spare Linux computer. The keyboard is a nightmare, so I'll stop now. Your condolences please
At tech today, I came out of class to have a friend come up to me and ask whether I had brought my computer in. "Yes," I reply. "Do you have any music on it?" "Why?"
He proceeds to pull out his iPod mini. My first reaction was "Is that real?"
"Nah, it's fake," he replies sarcastically. But I was amazed, I was really surprised to find a mini here in NZ. So I take a look at it - it's a 15 gig iPod, not a mini at all! This is the first time I'd ever seen one in person, and I'm still amazed at how small it is.
Anyway, it turns out that he was given the iPod, but the FireWire card he'd bought didn't like his computer. So he asked whether I could copy some music onto it for him. We went into the computer lab (where I had my G4 set up), and plugged it in.
First, iTunes popped up and informed me that there was newer iPod software available (I always run Software Update, even if I don't need the updates). So I clicked Yes, and the iPod Updater launched.
The iPod Updater proceeded to tell me that it could not update the iPod because it wasn't mounted on the desktop - although I could clearly see its icon. I clicked OK and it then told me that the update was successful - please do not disconnect the iPod, and wait for the update to complete. Meanwhile, the iPod screen has a big tick icon along with the message "OK to disconnect".
I waited a couple of minutes, and nothing happened, so I disconnected. I reconnected and tried again - same thing happened. So the third time, I decided not to perform the update. This time, it offered to synchronise my library, which would delete everything from the iPod. However, my friend had managed to get a few songs onto it, so I declined the offer and downloaded an iPod -> iTunes transfer utility.
After putting his songs into my iTunes, I let it synch, and it told me that my lossless files wouldn't work with his iPod, due to the older software. I let it go though anyway. It worked fine.
Then I realised that I could wipe the iPod and start from scratch, the music was all on my HD after all. So I started up the iPod Updater again, and selected to restore the iPod to its original state. It worked, the iPod actually responded with a progress bar this time.
Once the restore was complete, the iPod icon on my desktop changed - it now looked like an iPod rather than a generic disk. That got my hopes up, so I resynched, and it all worked fine
It was a bit of a mission though!
On a different note, I got home, started setting up my computer again, only to find that the girl I commute with had accidentally nicked off with my DVI -> VGA adapter
So she's on her way over now, and I'm typing this on the spare Linux computer. The keyboard is a nightmare, so I'll stop now. Your condolences please
