Ipod 160g classic issues.

Hi Please help.  I have a Ipod 160g classic. Ive been on the phone today to apple support for over an hour and a half to try and resolve this issue and its still happening.  I am trying to transfer music from my windows 7 PC to my Ipod and it keeps freezing after transfering a few diffrent albums tracks. Im having to switch off my PC and start again as it locks the whole PC up. I have the latest software on the Ipod and the latest itunes which I have unintsalled and reinstalled this afternoon and it is still happening.  this issue has only seem to have started since downloading the latest version of Itunes. Is anybody else experincing this issue.  Thanks

chappy007 wrote:
I have audio books and have been informed by Apple Support that in order to keep the audio books in the audio book folder of my iPod and I have to have the iPod set to disk use mode and therefore cannot have iTunes and my iPod sunc. In other words I have to drag and drop new items into my iPod. This is time consuming when I add new songs to iTune.
That's nonsense - use Sync with selected playlists and it works fine, although there are a few issues you certainly don't need to use disk mode or manual management.
With iTunes 8.x you have the option to tell iTunes to treat any audio file as an audiobook. Simply select the tracks, *Get Info.*, then on the options tab set *Media kind* to Audiobook. You can also set options to *Remember playback position* and *Skip when shuffling*.
Assuming, however, that the books consist of more than one file you may have problems if you plan to listen to them on an iPod. The Audiobooks feature was originally designed for books that have been stitched up into a single file and hasn't been updated to reflect the changes that make multi-track audiobooks easy to work with in iTunes. There are tools for creating iPod-friendly audiobooks for which Aldo on Audiobooks is probably the best reference. Personally I don't bother with the extra effort and just have an "Audiobooks" playlist folder containing sub-folders for each author and within these playlists for each audiobook.
Having established that the files are of kind Audiobook, they will then only show in the Audiobook section of the iPod plus any playlists they are explicity included in. The files don't show anywhere else in Music, i.e. Coverflow, Albums etc.
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