iPod
So as I am sure you all know by now I am a total techophobe. It's not that I don't want to know or understand, it's just that mostly people who I want to know stuff from talk about stuff at me (this is not their fault its just I go into a daze when people start talking about certain topics).
So help me someone. I got a new iPod, it's lovely and is black and shiny. It's just a normal iPod Video 30G from the US of A from Ebay yah? So I connected it to my lovely laptop and it was "syncing" or whatever (iPod furiously flashing at me to not disconnect) this took about 10 mins or so as it was getting all my music and that, so I just turned it on there and all my music is NOT on it. What is the deal with this. It's 30G and only has about 3G of stuff on it. I know I have more stuff than that as I checked it and my stuff is not on it. Weird no? As in basically on my Creative I had about 3000 songs or more, but on this I have 827, where is all my music gone to? Its still in "MUSIC" on my vista blah laptop so why did it not "sync" or whatever hmmm?!
In other "geek" news I discovered today that I have the typing speed of a legal secretary (rawk - I knew all of that frantic emailing was would be worth it in the end!!) but I do not "touch type using the correct home keys - whatever!) . I want to learn to touch type now, just to do. I think I will be able to do it. Currently I only use one of my fingers on my left hand and three from my right so if I am only using 4 fingers now and I start to use four from each hand that will therefore double my typing speed yah? I am also deadly on Excel, who would have thought that would ever happen? I hate Excel. It is the bane of my life and it hates me back as much as I hate it.
Anyway, I am off to bed, if anyone knows what is up with my iPod please help me!
(posts)
4.1
Geek Support, fixing of bugger-ups, moral support, code splicing, tech. administration, whining, über-nerdery and fetching of fluffy coffees by 
Comments
It's possible that some of your music was imported in WMA format or something, which doesn't work on iPods. You'll need to convert them all to mp3 if that's the case.
Posted by: Matt | January 26, 2008 2:00 AM
Get Matt round to look at it! Sounds wierd.
Posted by: Destructor | January 26, 2008 6:08 AM
I don't know how to convert them to WMA format - AAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!
Posted by: Babs | January 26, 2008 12:02 PM
It's not even a might be, that is the problem!!!
You have betrayed windows with your iPOD!!! And this is the price you must pay!
In other techie news, it took me a full half hour last night to realise my new external 500 GB drive from Western Digital required formatting before my laptop could see it... Oh dear...
Posted by: TUG | January 28, 2008 10:42 AM
It's not about betraying Windows though is it? Seeing as every other mp3 player sucks balls when compared to an iPod, there's really not that much choice.
Formatting hard drives? Mac OSX makes that incredibly easy. I have mine partitioned into HFS+ and FAT32 sections, just for the hell of it. [/geek]
Posted by: Matt | January 28, 2008 11:35 AM
In all fairness, last time I bought an MP3 player, IPod were having serious reliability issues which they seem to have ironed out.
My creative zen has never given me a single problem and with 40GB in the tank, was one of the biggest available on the market storage wise.
Admittedly, I'd have to take a look around now, if I was in the market but I do most of my listening now on my Nokia 5300 Xpress Music!!!
Posted by: TUG | January 28, 2008 5:54 PM