Is the iPod crashing my machines?

I recently bought a refurbished iPod Mini for my mom to replace the one that died on her. However, since she's got it she's been experiencing the following problems:
- Message coming up on screen that iPod files corrupted and needs restoring
- Occasional crashing of iTunes when syncing
- Crashing of PC
I took it from her and plugged it into my MacBook and what immediately caught my eye was the fact the iPod icon was coming up as a disc icon instead of the usual little iPod one. However, before I had chance to take it out of disc mode (assuming that's what it's in) it crashed my Mac too. Twice.
Sooooo does anyone have ideas as to what I can do to fix it?
Oh and before I forget, my mom has restored the iPod several times and I think she's reset it a few times too.

My best bet is that it's the iPod files that are corrupted in which case all you can really do is restore it. Also, reinstall iTunes just as a precaution.

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the classic ipod has crashed 4 times in the last 2 months. till i load 3800 to 3900 songs there seems to be no problem. but after that it just crashes and instructs me to restore to factory settings. just want to know if ipods have a finite life and need changing after this. i need urgent help at least if that is true i can save the trouble of loading songs every other week
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Yep, iPod classic has life of about 2 years before the hardisk, starts to suffer from arthritis.
Here is a excellent post on iPod diskdiagnostic by regular tt2.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2362776?start=0&tstart=0
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SSD Capacity is expensive,
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I am quite new at Logic and have two questions:
1
When I bounce a Logic project to iTunes, I have no problem listening to the song on my computer - in iTunes. But when i sync my iPod and then click on the song there, the iPod 'crashes' (needs rebooting) - and when it's ready again, nearly all the battery power has gone.
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therecordinggenius wrote:
I am quite new at Logic and have two questions:
1
When I bounce a Logic project to iTunes, I have no problem listening to the song on my computer - in iTunes. But when i sync my iPod and then click on the song there, the iPod 'crashes' (needs rebooting) - and when it's ready again, nearly all the battery power has gone.
I have tried most of the options when bouncing ... aiff, wave, mp3, m4p etc ... all of which give the same result.
Sounds like a F^&*ed up iPod. IMO.
2
How come the 2,000 page Logic manuals - as far as I know - never touches upon the subject of mastering?
Because Logic is mainly used to create music / post production. Not so much for mastering. The guys who created Logic are not mastering engineers..but musicians.
If you want to master with Logic, you CAN. Go get a good book on mastering... there's a few out there.
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Incident Identifier: 368E3513-5005-4D29-9DEE-AFE2A9E5F326
CrashReporter Key:   393479a1b0e22466f7d773db413de3be8cc5fba5
Hardware Model:      iPod4,1
Date/Time:       2012-05-17 05:06:08.063 -0500
OS Version:      iPhone OS 5.1.1 (9B206)
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Debugger message: panic
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iBoot version: iBoot-1219.62.15
secure boot?: YES
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Epoch Time:        sec       usec
Boot    : 0x4fb31511 0x00000000
Sleep   : 0x4fb4ca68 0x00085289
Wake    : 0x4fb4cd53 0x0000000d
Calendar: 0x4fb4cd5d 0x0001a4ce
Task 0xc0591d20: 6322 pages, 80 threads: pid 0: kernel_task
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                      lr: 0x8007ccab fp: 0xcbb1befc
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                      lr: 0x8021fd7f fp: 0xcbb1bf78
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therecordinggenius wrote:
I am quite new at Logic and have two questions:
1
When I bounce a Logic project to iTunes, I have no problem listening to the song on my computer - in iTunes. But when i sync my iPod and then click on the song there, the iPod 'crashes' (needs rebooting) - and when it's ready again, nearly all the battery power has gone.
I have tried most of the options when bouncing ... aiff, wave, mp3, m4p etc ... all of which give the same result.
Sounds like a F^&*ed up iPod. IMO.
2
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Because Logic is mainly used to create music / post production. Not so much for mastering. The guys who created Logic are not mastering engineers..but musicians.
If you want to master with Logic, you CAN. Go get a good book on mastering... there's a few out there.
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