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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?
not interesting. mod parent down. The first version of iTunes for Windows released had a bug which caused some Win2k machines to crash. I bet that's the first time any first-release windows software had a problem like that. There's an update which fixes that problem anyway ( I think it was out about a week after the first version ). The issue isn't with new, Windows-compatible iPods, it's with old, first-generation Macintosh-only iPods that you have no business hooking to a PC anyway. Duh. I'm looking for the report where a Windows-compatible iPod is broken by iTunes... none? No? Why is this article posted? This guy needs to re-install the last iPod firmware update and remember not to try that again, end of story.