iPod Mini user - need help please

[Conrado]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]My iPod is skipping all the songs without playing them[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]Two week ago, I lost all the music that was stored in my iTunes, but my library was okay on my iPod Mini.

So I copied all the music from the iPod to my iTunes doing like this:
- set the Windows Explorer to show hidden files (enable me to see the music files on my iPod);
- the files appear in a odd form (saved in files with names like F00, F01, F02, ...);
- I added the files from the iPod to iTunes using the "Add File to Library" command on the File Menu.

I have all my music back in iTunes, but ever since, I can't listen to any music in my iPod anymore. Whenever I press play, iPod Mini just skips all the music without playing them. I tried reseting, but it didn't work.

A friend of mine told me that it might be a virus (!) and that I should take it to an Apple store to have it replaced. Is that true? Is there any other way I could fix it?[/FONT]

 

[Scoobie]

Have you tried wiping your ipod and reloading all the music onto it again?

 

[silvia]

Conrado,

There's a huge spanish mac-users community called macuarium, they have a specific forum for ipod users. Your spanish is good enough and there's some people around there that know better the product than steve jobs:
http://www.macuarium.com/foro/index.php?showforum=40

 

[Conrado]

Gracias, Silvi! Voy a ver se encuentro respuesta para mis dudas.

 

[Conrado]

Hey everyone,

I found a iPod forum where you can find answers for tons of iPod problems. It's good to know where to find answers, it's awful to know the amount of problems my new iPod can actually have...

http://forums.ilounge.com/

 

[Morbyd]

Sorry I'm so late on this...

there's a great program called ephPod that is really good for copying all your files from the iPod back to your harddrive. You can even set up how it renames the files based on their metadata (to repair the truncated iPod file system names).

Then you could, as stated above, just wipe the iPod and reload the files you want.

IPod Lounge is a very good site for iPod info, by the way.