OK? now this! is really really really! really really weird.
I got my dad an IPod 8gb Nano 4th Gen Blue for his birthday. I! have an
IPod 8gb Nano 4th Gen Yellow. I currently have just over 75gb of music in
my library which resides on an external Firewire 300gb drive. I am running
the latest build of ITunes 8.0.1 with the latest Macintosh based IPod Nano
Firmware. Basicly, because of the fact that I have so much music, there is
no way! I'm gonna fit all that on my IPod, nor! on my dad's, and frankly,
neither do either of us, wanna! do that. So, what I thus did, was, I have
mine set up under the summary page, open ITunes when this IPod is connected
is checked. Sync only checked songs and playlists is unchecked. Enable
spoken menus is checked. By the way, this is how it is set on my IPod,
let's not talk about my dad's quite yet. I wanna give yall a good thorough
background of how mine's! set first. You'll see why here in justa sec. So,
obviously, I have used this IPod under Windows XP SP2 in the past, never
SP3. but, I restored the IPod so I could use it on Leopard. Well, what I
basicly did, is went to the sources list, and hit command+N to create a new
playlist. I called it Transfers. I then went to the music tab of my IPod.
I made sure that sync Music was checked. It was. I then did a vo down
arrow, from that check box, and then hit vo right arrow once to get to the
radio button to sync only selected playlists. I hit vo+Space on that. OK,
great! Then I did vo right and interacted with the table. Super!
Transfers was there, so I hit vo space on it and checked it. Then I quit
interacting, and did vo+shift+End, to get to the Apply button, and hit vo
space. So awesome! My IPod was set.
Now, all I had to do was go to the music library, tab over to the search
box, put say... Beatles... Then tab to the songs list. once there I simply
would interact with the songs table, then would select what ever tracks I
wanted. Then I did vo shift m, and then would hit the letter A, which then
said add to Party Shuffle. Well, if I then down arrowed twice, I'd be on
add to playlist. I then would right arrow, as it was a sub menu, then I'd
go down to transfers, and hit return. Boom! those tracks were added, and
upon my next sync, they'd be put on my Nano. Well, the problem arose last
Saturday afternoon. I went to Best Buy, and got my dad an 8 gb 4th Gen Nano
Blue. I got it home, opened it up, took my! USB cord instead a his, since
they essentially are identically the same, plugged his in, registered it,
yoddie yodda, named it Steve's Nano, etc. I then went to the music tab of
his IPod, made sure sync music was checked. It was. I then went to sync
only selected playlists and vo spaced on that radio button. It was then,
that I realized: Awe! Crap! I forgot to make a playlist for his IPod.
Dammit! Whoops? So, without clicking Apply, I then went to the source
list, and went back up to music. Now, I mean music in my library, not music
underneath his IPod. Be aware. I mean music under library, right at the
very toppa the source list. I then did command N, and named the playlist
Dad's IPod. I wrote it just? like, that. Dad's? with a capital D and an
apostrophy s, IPod new word capital I and capital P.
So: cap D A D appostraaphy S, space, Cap I cat P o d.
I then copied a 10 disc set into that playlist with the method discussed
above. So now, that playlist had 119 tracks in it and was just over 600MB.
All the tracks were mp3's.
I now went back to Steve's Nano, which is what I named his IPod for the
mountpoint. I went back to the music tab, and noticed that the radio button
still was checked for sync only selected playlists. So, awesome! I went
over and interacted with the table of playlists. Well guess what! Not
only! did I not see Dad's IPod in there, I neither! saw any other playlist I
manually created. O Sure, it's got CD Burning, which I created manually,
for burnin CD's, and it has all the preinstalled smart playlists like 90's
Music, my top rated, Most recently played, and all that jazz, but no
transfers! No? Arobics! No Bedtime! No Dad's IPod! None a that! Over in the
sources list, they show up, and have things in 'em, and o yeah, they play
all right. They're not in the table though of lists I can manually sync.
I always can set the thing to manually manage, then just drag and drop
things onto the IPod, which now is the only way I'm seeing to do this. I
created another playlist, it did no good. I renamed a few playlists, no
good. The odd thing's why? does it see CDE burning, when I created that
one, by hand, yet... not see! any? others! I'm totally perplexed! I
restored the IPod multiple times with no luck, I even went as far as to
check for updates. All updates were current. Yup? ITunes 8.0.1. The very?
latest. All's good there. Now when I plug my? IPod Nano in, I have the
same problem. I don't see any of my playlists, and all a sudden, I neither
with mine now see even CD burning, let alone any others.
I deleted the itunes library database as well as backing up the ITunes music
library.xml file from my home direftory/music/ITunes. I then restarted
ITunes, and BTW, ITunes wasn't running when I deleted those. I'm not that
stupid. LOL! Then under ITunes, I went >>File>>Library>>Import database, I
think it says. I then went back to that xml file, and reimported my
database.
I then closed and reopened ITunes again. The playlists were back now in the
sources list with all my other music, but, again: neither with his nor my
IPod, can we see those playlists under the music tab. When I used JAWS 10,
and looked under Windows XP, I tried creating the same senario. It worked!
All my playlists showed up under the music tab, including! my transfers
playlist. I was able to use the jaws cursor, click it, then move the jaws
cursor down, click apply, then sync with just that playlist. This problem's
only on my Mac. I created another user account, and set up a whole new
ITunes library. That neither worked. Again, they were not there. They're
sure in the sources list though! I spent about 3 hours literally? speaking!
on the line with an Apple Product Specialist today, and they even! are
stumped beyond human recognition!
Do any a you have? a, slightest? clue? This! is Bazaar!
Chris.
