Backup iPod Classic (video)

I manage my music manually, as I use different computers to upload music (mostly CDs) to my iPod Classic (video). This means that the music on my iPod Classic is much more than on either of the computers. How can I back up my iPod Classic (without syncing!) to preserve its contents?

Its possible that the LCD display's ribbon cable was not properly attached to the iPod's logic board or was damaged upon replacement. I would take the iPod back to wherever you had it serviced and explain to them what is happening.
B-rock

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My IPOD Classic Video 5. Gen. showed videos, but now it does no longer show them, instead i see a black picture on my IPOD and it doesn`t work. I have to restart it every time, i try it. i restore the software with itunes, but the problem still exists.

My IPOD Classic Video 5. Gen. showed videos, but now it does no longer show them, instead i see a black picture on my IPOD and it doesn`t work. I have to restart it every time, i try it. i restore the software with itunes, but the problem still exists.
The Videos are showed up front 4 months, but now they are no longer to be seen. When you star a video first the hard drive starts, but then it stops and hangs up. I have to restart it, starting with the apple logo....

Here is what worked for me:
My usb hub, being usb2, was too fast. I moved the wire to a usb port directory on my pc. That is a usb1 port which is slow enough to run your snyc.

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how do you backup ipod classic songs to computer? i am only seeing how to backup my itunes library. i want to backup the specific music on my ipod so that when i get a new ipod, i can just restore that music that i've already filtered from my library to what is on my ipod. thanks!

I have about 6000 songs on my itunes library and i've filtered it down to 4500 on my ipod (so far) that I like and really listen to. I don't really want to go through all of that again...

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Unsyncable video? From iTunes? Meets iPod Classic video spec! Why not?

Lots of posts on this issue with plenty of versions of iPod but apparently no real answers other than "convert it" with third party software or iTunes. So, even though there are plenty of questions and answers, I'm going to ask it again but hope someone can also explain the technical reason why this happens.
According to Apple's iPod Classic Technical Specifications for the Classic, it is supposed to play the following video/audio:
H.264, up to 1.5Mbps, 640x480, 30FPS, AAC-LC audio up to 160Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
H.264, up to 2.5Mbps, 640x480, 30FPS, AAC-LC audio up to 160Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
MPEG-4, up to 2.5Mbps, 640x480, 30FPS, AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
Fair enough. So I download a video from the iTunes Store and, using Quick Time "inspector", it reports the following specs for the video:
H.264, 1.05Mbps, 640x480, 21.96 FPS, AAC, 44.100kHz, Stereo, mp4. ALL of which are at or below the specifications above.
So, why is this video "out of spec" and can not be synchronized much less played on the iPod Classic especially when it was downloaded from iTunes??
Someone please explain why this fails.
Thank you for the help,
Kevin

Double check to make sure podcasts are configured to sync to your device from under the iPod's Podcast configuration tab.
To access the Podcasts tab for your iPod, plug your iPod in and click on it from under the Devices section in the left hand pane of iTunes. This will bring you to the Summary tab. Along the top you should see a Podcasts tab, so go ahead and click on it. Here you can configure how and what podcasts sync to your iPod.
If you do make any changes to do this tab, make sure to hit the Apply button in the lower right hand corner to apply the update changes to your device.
Otherwise, are you getting any error messages when you sync your iPod Classic with iTunes?
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The question here is does anyone know if Creative will do a software upgrade so that the video portion of the ipod can be seen? Can the Xdoc receiver be upgraded via USB cable?, or does iPOD has a sofware upgrade so that the iPOD classic can be used with the Xdoc?.
If upgrade are out of the question why sell a product that is not compatible with the newer version of iPOD? Not fair to those that want to be always up to date with their electronics, makes no sense to go BACKWARDS.
Message Edited by watsal on 06-24-2008 09:00 PM

Hey OfficeMaven...
I also have one of the newer DLO Homedocks and a 80GB iPod Classic. I only have music on the iPod, so I don't know if the video out feature is working for me. As for the music features, they all seem to be working fine EXCEPT I am not able to PAUSE songs. The Play/Pause button has no affect once the song has started. Do you have this problem also? Not sure if problem is with iPod or Homedock. I really don't care about the video, as I am using primarily as a music server. BTW, mine also doesn't display album art... a little irritating, but I can live with it.
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Yep, it's through the dock. I don't get why Apple keeps "updating" and taking away features. It happened when at first you could shuffle "songs" and "videos", and the videos would play as such. Now they play as "songs", only audio without video.

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I purchased a creative lab xdoc which connects my ipod classic to my home theatre system, everything works except for the video portion, for some reason the ipod classic does not work with it,the question here is if Apple is working on a software upgrade so that we can use the video feature on the classic ipod,it is a shame that people try to be up to date with technology, but instead we get stuck with electronics that do work with later model, only with OLDER MODEL, i don't see the glory on this, do you?
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watsal

I purchased a creative lab xdoc which connects my ipod classic to my home theatre system, everything works except for the video portion, for some reason the ipod classic does not work with it,the question here is if Apple is working on a software upgrade so that we can use the video feature on the classic ipod,it is a shame that people try to be up to date with technology, but instead we get stuck with electronics that do work with later model, only with OLDER MODEL, i don't see the glory on this, do you?
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IPod Classic Video Out Question

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I would like to connect an iPod Classic 160GB to my car stereo with a screen and use TV out to navigate the menus of the iPod. Is this possible or does the TV out function only work on actual video and not navigating through menus? Thanks.

I have exactly the same issues. I can't believe what I hear when I compare Ipod classic with iphone 4S. The same song play on IPhone 4S with EQ set to Classical is perfectly smooth and clear but the same EQ in IPOD classic have the sound clipped and distorted. The drum cracks into many pieces instead of a solid 'TUD!' in iphone 4S. Try this songs on both devices, you will know what I mean:
Ann Sally - O Barquinho.
IPOD classics plays it like a piece of badly torn fabric, but on IPhone 4S the sound is perfect. Stevenfromwi is correct, it is about harmonic distortion (clipping of the sound) which no one can find it pleasing. Just try out the song above by setting both IPOD and IPHONE to Classical EQ and you will know what I mean.
When I search the reviews of IPOD classics, I am surprised that expert reviewers have long known about this issue of IPOD classics and put it as one of the long-standing and thumb-down problem of IPOD classics. See the review below:
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/mp3-players/272431/apple-ipod-classic-160gb
("...It's disappointing that Apple hasn't completely fixed the audio distortion..." ~ extracted from the article)
I will have to sell away my IPOD classics and find other media player now since I really cannot accept the clipping of sound. It is very dissapointing!!!

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I just encountered the same problem. I bought a new Onkyo receiver / and new IPOD dock a month ago. I had a two year old 60G Video IPOD which worked with it, but since I was running out of space - I made the mistake of upgrading to a new 160G Classic. If I want to use it with my TV, I guess I'll need to buy even more cables or docks from Apple. I read that no dock (not even Apple's) lets you use all the remote control features so it will be a manually controlled wiring kludge.
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I seem to have some major difficulty with syncing movies and such onto my iPod.
I got my iPod last year for Christmas (December 2006), and I have tried and tried to upload videos onto my iPod, except it always says ""-insert movie here- was not copied to the iPod "Fiona's iPod" because it cannot be played on this iPod"
I don't really understand why it doesn't work.
The article that Apple officially write on how to Sync videos onto the iPod DOES NOT WORK!
Please tell me something useful to solve this problem, perhaps something you have done previously that would be of use?
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You can try one of three things (or all three to find the one that works best for you):
1. Right-click on the file in iTunes and choose "Convert video for iPod". It is a long process, especially for something longer than 20 minutes, and it doesn't always work in my experience.
2. Buy a license for Quicktime so you have the options of QT Pro. Load the movie/video into QT and then export it into iPod format with the settings you desire, then re-add it to iTunes. This is basically the same as the first option, but a bit faster because iTunes itself pretty much will eat half your computer's resources just running idle. Give iTunes something to do, and it will start to huff and puff like a 400lb. linebacker running wind-sprints. But QT is much sleeker and does the job better too. Plus QT Pro lets you do some nice things, like editing your .mp4 & .m4v iPod movies.
3. For what you're talking about, this is probably the cheapest and most reliable option - download and install [Videora|http://www.videora.com> and then convert the file in this program. Videora is fast, simple, and works pretty darn well. Oh, did I mention it's free and has frequent updates? It's great for converting those Quicktime movies that just aren't formatted right for the iPod.

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Hello, bardohudson.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here is the best article to go through when an iPod is not recognized in iTunes for Windows.
iPod not recognized in My Computer and in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1369
Cheers,
Jason H.

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I have an 80Gb iPod classic video. It has suddenly stopped being recognised by iTunes on my iMac. It IS recognised by the iMac though. iTunes does recognise my iPhone and iPad. I've restarted the Mac and reinstalled iTunes but no difference.
I tried erasing it from the Mac but when it restored, prompting a restore by iTunes then it's still not recognised.
I've plugged the iPod into a pc and iTunes recognised it...so I know it's not the iPod or the cable. iTunes on the pc restored the iPod but it's now blank and not being recognised by the Mac iTunes. I've run a diagnostic on the iPod HDD and it seems fine.
I'm confused as to what to do next...other than put all my music onto the laptop and sync it with that...but that seems unnecessary and drastic.

Same problem here, on 10.10.2 with iTunes 12.0.1, my iPod Classic 160 ejects immediately, on my mavericks mac with iTunes 12.0.1, all is well.
I've tried forcing iTunes not to run, by getting it into 'choose library mode' (holding down option key, whilst starting), and the iPod stays connected, but as soon as an iTunes library is chosen, it ejects. This leads me to think, it may be a system call that iTunes is using that has changed in 10.10.2, forcing the eject.
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If I'm reading your post correctly, you mean your iPod is not waking up from sleep properly? If your iPod's controls aren't functioning correctly, a software restore on your iPod is the recommended course of action, though doing so will wipe the contents of the iPod and requires a resync to your library.
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Envision99 wrote:
Even though the connectors might be the same, they probably charge differently and use different levels of voltages. You can try it out and see if it will work, it shouldn't damage the device or anything, it will probably say it won't work if anything.
Not true. ALL USB ports and chargers provide 5 volts nominal (actually 4.5 to 5.5). Wall chargers provide 1 amp; computers are only required to provide 0.5 amp, but most newer ones provide 1 amp. The only difference is that 0.5 amp will take twice as long to charge the phone.
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