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Achievement Unlocked!
Aug. 15th, 2014 09:42 pmFinally figured out how to (re)load all the music on my iPod to my iTunes player on my laptop. Previously, everything was on both it and my desktop computer and then I let my iPod's battery die down and suddenly there was no turning it on, no recharging it, and three stupid preloaded songs in my laptop's iTunes library. And the desktop was deader than a doorknob. I was at "LoI deadline" then and frustrated, so just set the whole mess aside grumbling that I couldn't access the music I wanted to listen to while I made those 'fun' decisions on the hard submissions.
Ha! Shawn-Boy, Youngest Son and giver of my first iPod came over tonight for dinner and sat at my elbow playing with my new phone's Zedge app while I tried to figure out what had gone wrong. And we made it work. All it took was
Downloading iTunes from the wrong source & filling my computer with a load of bogus programs
Uninstalling some programs, finding that my browser was all messed up no matter what
Uninstalling Google Chrome (again)
Figuring out how to start my computer in safe mode and taking it back to yesterday's settings
Downloading iTunes from *Apple* this time
Using google to find "how to back up files from player to computer"
and....
Ta-Da!
The player is happily loading up on power from my computer right now while I am listening to my music from the iTunes files on my computer. Ah, joy. Tomorrow I shall explore our little car again and make sure that the USB port it has is exactly what I need for connecting my iPod to our car's music system. And then I shall wait, like a fat spider, for the Sirius Rep to call our house one more time - and let them refuse to talk to my husband - and then I'm going to laugh like a hyena and tell them where to put their satellite music system.
Okay, maybe that last bit has nothing to do with reconnecting with my iPod. But they did tick me off when they refused to speak to the co-owner of the car and insisted that only I was authorized to talk to them instead. To confirm that the system we never used is really one we don't want to subscribe to now that the trial period after our car's purchase is over.
Ha! Shawn-Boy, Youngest Son and giver of my first iPod came over tonight for dinner and sat at my elbow playing with my new phone's Zedge app while I tried to figure out what had gone wrong. And we made it work. All it took was
Downloading iTunes from the wrong source & filling my computer with a load of bogus programs
Uninstalling some programs, finding that my browser was all messed up no matter what
Uninstalling Google Chrome (again)
Figuring out how to start my computer in safe mode and taking it back to yesterday's settings
Downloading iTunes from *Apple* this time
Using google to find "how to back up files from player to computer"
and....
Ta-Da!
The player is happily loading up on power from my computer right now while I am listening to my music from the iTunes files on my computer. Ah, joy. Tomorrow I shall explore our little car again and make sure that the USB port it has is exactly what I need for connecting my iPod to our car's music system. And then I shall wait, like a fat spider, for the Sirius Rep to call our house one more time - and let them refuse to talk to my husband - and then I'm going to laugh like a hyena and tell them where to put their satellite music system.
Okay, maybe that last bit has nothing to do with reconnecting with my iPod. But they did tick me off when they refused to speak to the co-owner of the car and insisted that only I was authorized to talk to them instead. To confirm that the system we never used is really one we don't want to subscribe to now that the trial period after our car's purchase is over.
