iPod irony

[JavaBrewer]

The iPod has nearly put me in my grave. I've had continuous issues with iTunes running on XP. Hours and hours resolving mysterious iTune lockup, iPod & iTune lockup, the fun "iTunes arrange your library" that was defaulted to enabled and all my music renamed to unknown/fileXYZ.mpg. Good times

So, walking past the company boneyard the other day I see the poor old G4 Powermac sitting there all lonely like. I take it home with the thought of reviving it to be a iTunes server box and email client for the wife and kids. I build the thing back up with OS-X 10.3 and I installed a PCI card for SATA drive support, a PCI USB 2.0 card, and everything is looking good. The box runs quiet with the new hard drive. I copy all my music to the drive which takes half the day due to several folders having PC formatted stuff that does not transfer. Anywho, I reboot and plug in my daughters iPod nano video...up pops a warning message that the iPod cannot be used without OS-X 10.4.8 and up...

Teaches me for thinking there just might be something to this Mac thing after all. My only solution is to use my XP laptop for all iPod work as I'm not buying OS-X 10.anything for this old G4. So there you have it, the mac won't play with the iPod but the XP will with just one crash per connect. Good times.

Talk amongst yourselves.

[the]

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

[Jims5543]

I gave up on ipods 3 years ago, I purchased 2 of them, one for the wife and one for me, and they both sucked.

My wife and son both have a Nano now and I will have nothing to do with it. I purchased a Sirius Stiletto2 and I am VERY happy with my satellite radio on the go.

I really could not be bothered ripping or downloading music and spending all kinds of times managing music.

I prefer the total randomness of my Sirius.

[tchanson]

We have numerous iPods in the house that have worked flawlessly with XP as well as with AirPort Express and AirTunes. Sharing iTunes libararies via the built in Bonjour software was seamless.

Until, that is, I recently bought a new MacBook Pro that would constantly drop out when streaming to Apple's own AirPort Express/Air Tunes, after spending hours of quality time on the phone with Apple Care.

Switched to a new Vista laptop with much hesitation. All the iPods worked, connected, shared libraries and most importantly streamed via AirTunes over the AirPort Express as they should.

Over the years we've yet to break or have an iPod fail. Perhaps we're lucky, but I think its a pretty great piece of hardware. And, although I refuse to buy any crappy 128 MB, DRM laden music from the iTunes Store, I find that iTunes, as an application, has always worked quite well for us as well.







Tim

[LeRoux Strydom]

I manage 4 iPod's for the kids on my XP machine. No hiccups at all.

You must have an app on your XP box that does not like iTunes. I also found that having a solid USB port helps a lot. Are you using a built-in USB port or an add-on USB hub? Those can be flaky sometimes.

[red-beard]

WM10 and 11 work great with my cellphones and Ptunes. Plus I love being able to use A2DP head phones, with no wires.

[on2wheels52]

I'm on the fringe of putting a nano to use. I planned to use it on longer bike rides but will have to come up with workable headphones under a helmet. Then I'll have to get along with the wires.
Unsure if it is worth the trouble at this stage.
Jim

[cashflyer]

I hate iTunes software on my XP - which is why I use Anapod software instead.

[masraum]

The first time I tried to install iTunes and use an iPod (present for daughter) on my XP PC. The PC started randomly rebooting and wouldn't work with the iPod at all.

A couple of years later, my daughter bought me an iPod. I thought, "Crap, this thing will kill my PC." I installed iTunes and haven't had a single problem in over a year. I don't know what happened. I didn't change any hardware and mostly let XP do it's update thing when it wants to. I haven't rebuilt the PC or reinstalled XP or anything (I probably need to). Nothing major changed, it just works. I assume it's because when I got the ipod it was 2 years later and the software was better.

Sucks that it's not working for you. I love my iPod.

[CJFusco]

Hmm. My iPod works great, my iTunes works perfectly on my desktop's XP, and my MacBook is fantastic.

[Scuba Steve]

Works fine for me. I share an ipod between an XP 64, XP, and OS X machine without problems.

[cab83_750]

I belong to the left here.


I have 2 ipods for my myself: one for the car and one for when i walk/jog.

My kids have their own.

No issues whatsoever.

[Shadetree930]

iPod here with zero issues on an XP machine.

[Don Plumley]

We've gone through at least 8 iPods (upgrading) on XP and Mac boxes, switching between, etc. with no known problems.