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iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods

evil_liam asks: "In our office we've been running an older 5gb iPod with both Macs and PC's (using Xplay), but when we installed iTunes for the PC the iPod stopped working. Songs and playlists transfer over fine, and you can see them and play them in iTunes, but you can't listen to them on the iPod, itself. It shows the song details and so forth, but skips through the tracks, playing 0 seconds of each one until it finishes. This only applies to tracks added since iTunes was installed. No amount of reformatting, or rolling back firmware seems to work. When I called Apple, they stated that they simply don't support the use of the older Mac iPods on PC's and are not responsible, even though they admit that it was their own software that caused this. We're not alone, see this thread at Apple. I'm not quite suggesting that this was deliberate, but they are aware of it and don't seem to care." Does anyone have ideas on possible fixes for the afflicted iPods?

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  1. Nelson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    [Nelson] Ha ha [/Nelson]

  2. Re:Apple approved fix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod this Mac zealot and his flamebait down.

  3. yiff me, you sexy tease thang by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Logical Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who modded this shit insightful?

  5. Re:Sigh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot moderation is a fucking joke.

  6. Re:Apple approved fix by CheeseMonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Blah blah blah I have nothing useful to say.
    Can the M$-bashing idiots stay on topic for a change?
    (/offtopic)

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  7. Re:Mac Zealot Translator a go-go! by alienw · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice one. Let me guess, the Mac zealots that infested Slashdot will mod this one down in 3..2..1...

  8. Re:Not Bashing... by jazman_777 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    They don't stick with older hardware or software.

    Neither does MS. I can't install XP on my old 100MB drive.

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  9. Re:Err WTFark are you spewing forth? by milkman_matt · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    OR I can spend $499 for OSX 10.3

    Boy did YOU get ripped off... Exactly how do you figure it at 500 bucks for 10.3? My copy was only $130^H^H^H400, wanna buy a few copies off of me at a discount?

    -matt

  10. Free personality test... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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