Songs not visible after a few days non-use
I've heard about this "problem" (i.e. apparent built-in functionality) of the iPod, but have just experienced it for the first time. I've not used my iPod for about a week and today when I went to turn it on none of my music was visible. I'm sure it is all still there because the space is being used on the disk (I can see that via Windows Explorer), but there is nothing to listen to. Someone told me in the past that the iPod hides all audio files as a form of theft protection or similar if it isn't used for a certain number of days. To me it is just annoying. If anyone could provide a fix (especially if it doesn't involve reformatting the drive), I'd appreciate it.
For bonus points: I'd like to ideally solve this without using iTunes. I very happily use Winamp with an iPod support plugin (http://mlipod.com/) to manage my music library and syncing with iTunes will completely mess up months of organizing. If anyone has a solution for this "no music" problem, I'm all ears.
Thanks!
iPod 4th generation Windows XP Pro Using Winamp for library management
Update: iTunes could also not recognize the iPod even with the latest firmware installed. I had no choice but to do a restore to factory state, which wiped my hard drive clean and required me to spend about an hour restoring about 10GB of files. Thanks, Apple!
Although it seems this may have been a software/firmware problem with the iPod, I'm still interested in whether or not anyone has heard of songs being hidden after X days of iPod non-use. Is it just an urban legend or, in fact, true? Is there a way to deactivate such a stupid feature to avoid future calamties?
Thanks!
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