ITunes Freezing Intermittently when Playing from iPod
Hello,
If anyone could shed any light on this I'd be most grateful. My problem, like many others, began when I updated the iTunes software a few days ago but the problem itself seems to be different.
My iPod is mounting fine and iTunes recognises it okay. I always play my music off my iPod and don't keep it in the library, which up until now has produced no problems. However, since updating iTunes keeps freezing in the middle of playing, as if I've hit pause. It does this a few times and then re-starts after a minute or so. After doing that maybe four or five times it crashes the programme completely and iPod freezes as well.
iPod then won't eject, even if I eject it off the desktop. iTunes won't quit, even using force quit it just keeps coming back, and then the whole system crashes and I have to do an emergency switch-off. Most times, the iPod itself stays frozen on the 'Do Not Disconnect' screen and obviously I'm damaging both iPod and PowerBook by having to dismount it without correctly ejecting and switching off without shutting down. It's driving me insane!
Any ideas? Preferably ones that don't involve major things like totally re-formatting the iPod - especially because to transfer my music back on to my computer is probably going to cause it to crash again.
I've got a 20GB 3G iPod - are Apple just making software that totally ruins older generation iPods or what?!
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Jess
You should get your songs into iTunes and then immediately back them up.
To get the songs off your iPod and into iTunes, see this post from Zevoneer > http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11857456�
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