Question: Q: Question: Q: ipod cannot be synced. I've had this happen to me several times over the past few months. Until now, It's erased all data from my iPod and I've had to spend close to 24 hours reloading it each time. How do I resolve this problem without having to do that again? Reply I have this question too 9 I have this question too Me too 9 Me too. All replies Drop Down menu.
Loading page content. User profile for user: Mitch Mitch May 8, PM in response to badnewscrewse In response to badnewscrewse It can be either some bad sectors on the HD of your iPod or there are couples corrupted music files on your iTunes For the bad sectors, see doing the following helps For Mac computer 1.
Post by quartz » Fri Feb 03, pm. Post by Lowlander » Fri Feb 03, pm. Post by quartz » Sun Feb 05, am. Post by Lowlander » Sun Feb 05, pm. Post by Ludek » Mon Feb 06, pm. Post by quartz » Tue Feb 07, pm. Post by Ludek » Tue Feb 07, pm. It should be noted, however, that this only transfers the playlist itself, and not the tracks in the playlist.
The contents of the playlist will only be updated if the tracks already exist in your iTunes library. It should also be noted that although iGadget is available for both Mac and Windows, this does not appear to be a direct cross-platform port, as there are some noticeable differences between the two versions. While the Mac version is a day trial with no other restrictions, the Windows version trial seems to have more stringent usage restrictions, such as being able to only transfer one song at a time.
Further, the Windows and Mac versions are both sold separately, so this would not be a practical solution for somebody looking to move data between both platforms. That having been said, iGadget does do a very good job of recovering all of the extra rating and play count metadata into iTunes, and the additional features it offers may make it a more attractive option for the price tag. It is not, however, nearly as well-suited as the more dedicated options for one-button recovery of an iTunes library or regular backups of iPod content.
In addition to the standard recovery of data from an iPod, it can also provide synchronization in the other direction—from iTunes to the iPod, but only adding new files, rather than removing those that do not exist in the iTunes library. Further, this tool also provides a very effective means for comparing content between the iPod and iTunes libraries.
Ultimately, this is a solution intended for those who would prefer to manage their iPod manually, but still be able to perform comparisons and selective synchronization of content between an iTunes library and iPod. From an iPod recovery point of view, iPod. Further, while complete reverse-synchronization is fairly straightforward, recovery of selected data is a two-step process similar to that found in iGadget, with a first step to recover selected music files, and then a second step required to recover selected playlists.
It has the additional advantage of being able to try and recover information from an iPod database that has been damaged or corrupted. Note that this feature is not compatible with the iPhone or iPod touch, however, due tot he different sync protocols that are being used.
Fortunately, issues of database corruption on non-jailbroken iPod touch or iPhone devices should be relatively uncommon. Although iPodAccess lacks some of the more advanced features of other similar products, it does have the advantage of being available for both the Mac and Windows platforms. Some of the more advanced recovery features may be useful as well in the event of a seriously damaged iPod database, however the trial version does not allow even basic access to this mode, making it difficult to determine if this particular tool would work in a specific situation without actually purchasing it.
A trial version mode that could actually indicate if tracks could be successfully recovered and how many would probably be a much more practical approach for helping people to discover whether or not this tool would be suitable for this purpose. MegaPhone formerly iPhoneDrive is a tool specifically designed with the iPhone in mind, and like iGadget provides a more comprehensive feature-set than mere media recovery. As a media recovery tool, it is rather basic, providing only the ability to copy tracks from the iPhone and optionally import them into the iTunes database.
No metadata is restored in this process, and there is no option to recreate playlists. MegaPhone could be a useful solution for those who might want to purchase it for its other features, but it falls short of most dedicated iPod recovery tools. Music Rescue, formerly known as PodUtil, is still one of the staples of basic iPod data recovery, although it does not yet provide support for the iPhone or iPod touch.
The Windows and Mac interfaces are virtually identical, and the iPod license actually installs both the Windows and Mac versions on your iPod, so you can easily use it to copy music from your iPod on either a Windows or Mac platform assuming that your iPod is formatted for Windows.
It is very simple to use on either platform, while also sporting some more advanced features, such as sorting presets and selection rules. Sorting presets are used to define where recovered music is stored based on the internal database and tag information , and provides an extremely flexible set of options in this regard, even allowing metadata like ratings and play counts to form part of the naming structure even though this data cannot be directly imported into iTunes as of yet.
Further, sorting presets can be used to determine whether tracks are added to the iTunes library after copying, and whether playlists are rebuilt in the process. Multiple presets can be defined for different purposes, and simply selected from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the main screen prior to actually performing a copy.
The selected tracks will be copied to your computer, and imported into iTunes if the current preset is configured to do this. Further, if you have configured the preset to rebuild playlists, a dialog box will come up, prompting you as to which playlists you want Music Rescue to create for you. In addition to selecting tracks manually, Music Rescue can also select tracks based on user-defined rules, similar to those used in Smart Playlists. These can be done either as a one-time quick ruleset, or a more complex defined ruleset that can be saved and reused:.
Music Rescue is especially useful for its ability to be carried around on your iPod, making it a very useful solution for recovering content from your iPod to more than one computer—even between Mac and Windows platforms. Using SenUti is extremely straightforward.
When opened, it shows a summary of your iPod content, as well as a collapsed listing of your iTunes playlists. SenUti lacks many of the advanced features of its commercial competition, such as smart syncing of metadata or the building of complex rulesets, but it has the major advantage of being a free solution.
Additionally, the current beta version provides preliminary support for the iPhone and iPod touch. On the Windows side, SharePod provides a free basic iPod management solution that will also allow for the recovery of playlists and ratings, although metadtata such as play counts and last played dates are not recovered.
Using SharePod for iPod recovery is fairly straightforward. SharePod will prompt you for which directory to recover these tracks to, and how you want these tracks to be named. You can select from several pre-sets using the drop-down box, or you can type in your own format, using some of the basic tags such as Artist, Album, and Track Number. This file can be imported into iTunes using the File, Import function to add these tracks to your iTunes library, along with their playlist and rating information.
Like SenUti, SharePod does not provide the same robust recovery solutions and advanced features as its commercial counterparts, but can still be an effective method of handling recovery of basic data from an iPod, and has the major advantage of being a free solution. As the name implies, TouchCopy was designed primarily to support the iPod touch and iPhone, although it also provides support for traditional iPod models as well.
TouchCopy can recover media content either selectively or en masse, and provides support for recovery of playlists and rating and play count metadata. TouchCopy also provides the ability to playback your media content directly from your iPod or iPhone, as well as the ability to recover other types of content from traditional iPods such as calendars, contacts, photos, notes and even iPod Games. The final tool, YamiPod, is actually a more fully-featured iPod content manager than a recovery tool per se, but it allows for tracks to be copied from the iPod back to your computer, and allows for limited support for recovering playlists back into an iTunes library.
It is far from the most full-featured solution available, but has the advantages of being a free, cross-platform solution that can be carried on the iPod itself. Further, a Linux version is available for those users who might want to recover their iPod library back to a computer running Linux. Note that at the present time, YamiPod is only supported on iTunes v7. Using it with an iPod that has been synced to a newer version of iTunes produces a notification dialog advising you that it may not work as expected.
As mentioned earlier, the recovery solutions discussed thus far actually only provide recovery of audio and video content from the iPod. Unfortunately, photo storage on the iPod works very differently from the way that audio and video files are stored.
Therefore, the recovery of photos from an iPod requires a different approach. The best way to copy or recover photos from an iPod is to ensure that the full resolution photos were stored on the iPod in the first place. The photos in this folder will be organized into sub-folders by Year, Month, and Date, but will retain their original file names unless conflicts exist. The major advantage to storing the full-resolution photos, as the name implies, is that these are exact copies of the original photos, simply placed on the iPod by iTunes in the same way as if you had copied them there yourself.
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