iPod's - is there a limit to how many you can use??

[dealmaker]

I'm trying (and failing!! Grr!) to get the latest iPod (a 160Gb classic) to sync with my copy of iTunes.

The PC is seeing it - but i Tunes wont!

Its a new unit that I've had in a box for a year or so - it seems to have picked up the correct day and date but won't sync to load up the music library?

Now we as a family, over the years, have had LOADS of iPods, Nano's, Shuffles and now Iphones syncd to the one iTunes account (some of which my wife and kids have managed to lose I might add!) - so the question is - is there a limit to how many iPods can be syncd to your iTunes library?? If so how do you go about deleting some of the old lost ones?

many thanks!

[PJ S]

Just checked on Apple's Support section, and the only reference to limitations I can find, is DRM'd music purchased can only be transferred between 5 computers (PC and/or Mac), and sync'd to as many iPods/iPhones as you own.
Therefore, in your situation, it might be wise to try Restoring the iPod software, to see if that does the trick.
Are you connecting to a PC or Mac? If the latter, FireWire or USB?

[dealmaker]

Cheers. The bit I dont understand is that all of the other iPods, nano's, iPhones are Syncing fine - it just seems to be this new one that wont register.

I am using Windows XP on a PC and have the latest version of itunes installed??

[CommanderJameson]

Sounds like it's fooked. Back to Apple with it!

[Jack Blag]

You are limited to 5 iPods for iTunes... could this be your 6th iPod?

[CommanderJameson]

Jack Blag said:

You are limited to 5 iPods for iTunes... could this be your 6th iPod?

I don't think you are limited to a specific number of iPods, you know.

[only me]

i think the 5 you are talking about relates to the number of liscences you can have on purchased stuff from itunes and not the number of actual devices i am currently syncing 6 without issues, but cant play purchased stuff on 1 of them

[shakotan]

iPod's what?

[PJ S]

dealmaker said:

Cheers. The bit I dont understand is that all of the other iPods, nano's, iPhones are Syncing fine - it just seems to be this new one that wont register.

I am using Windows XP on a PC and have the latest version of itunes installed??

So the iPod shows up on the left hand panel okay, you just can't sync anything to it?
If so, then follow this guide, and see what that does - http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/

[dealmaker]

PJ S said:

dealmaker said:

Cheers. The bit I dont understand is that all of the other iPods, nano's, iPhones are Syncing fine - it just seems to be this new one that wont register.

I am using Windows XP on a PC and have the latest version of itunes installed??

So the iPod shows up on the left hand panel okay, you just can't sync anything to it?
If so, then follow this guide, and see what that does - http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/

No the iPod doesnt even appear in the left hand panel of iTunes.

it does appear in "My computer" - so it doesnt seem to be a PC or USB/cable problem - and its charging fine. It just wont show up in iTunes - yet every other iPod will? I wonder if its because its on an older firmware version and the new iTunes won't "see" it? I cant find a way to manually update it outside of iTunes?

[PJ S]

No mention of whether you tried the 5 R's linked above, but here's something more specific - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1363

[dealmaker]

PJ S said:

No mention of whether you tried the 5 R's linked above, but here's something more specific - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1363

Yeah - tried the 5 "R's several times and worked through the list of supposed fixes - no joy.

I then installed i|Tunes on a diffferent PC and tried to sync and no joy either?

Strange - as apart from the fact theres no music on it the iPod is functioning fine?? Normally when you plug a brand new iPod in to iTunes it asks you to register the serail number and all the usual malarkey?...BUT NOTHING??

I wonder if its because the iPod is over a year old and has an older firmware that isnt supported by the latest iTunes version - and because I cant get it to register I cant update it?? My other iPod classic is howing software version 1.1.2 - where as the "new" one -, when I go into the settings, is showing as version 1.0 !

Edited by dealmaker on Friday 1st January 16:55

[AlexC1981]

You could try an alternative programme such as Media Monkey instead of iTunes.

[dealmaker]

Well I sorted it.

I suspected that the problem lay in the compatibility (or lack of) of an older iPod software with the latest version of iTunes.

I installed an older version of iTunes (version 8.0) on another PC - I then attatched the iPod to that - low and behold it connected fine - I then updated the iPod's software from version 1.0 to the very latest version (1.3.2 or something).

Once the iPod was updated with the latest software I connected it back to the original PC with my iTunes library running the latest iTunes version (9.1.2 i think) - and guess what - it syncd perfectly!!

Apple seemed to have dropped the ball big style on this one judging by all of the disgruntled posts over on the Apple support forum!

[Blue Meanie]

dealmaker said:

Apple seemed to have dropped the ball big style on this one judging by all of the disgruntled posts over on the Apple support forum!

Not really. They made the update available, you just chose not to update the ipod.

[dealmaker]

Blue Meanie said:

dealmaker said:

Apple seemed to have dropped the ball big style on this one judging by all of the disgruntled posts over on the Apple support forum!

Not really. They made the update available, you just chose not to update the ipod.

No not at all - it was in a box and brand new- bought 9 months ago - so how could I "choose" not to update it? It wouldnt work "out of the box" - I couldn't connect it to iTunes AT ALL - ergo it was therefore un-updateable [sic] - they dropped the ball because they did not make the "new" much-lauded iTunes version 9 backwardly compatible to all of the software versions of iPod. It should have connected and "updated" on first plug-in - it didn't! Lots of other people all over the globe are having these issues and it seems Apple are now aware of it (so I am sure a software patch is imminent - they seem to do one every week!). If you subscribe to the "apple can do no wrong" school of thought then I'm afraid you are very sadly mistaken!

Edited by dealmaker on Friday 1st January 21:43

[Blue Meanie]

dealmaker said:

Blue Meanie said:

dealmaker said:

Apple seemed to have dropped the ball big style on this one judging by all of the disgruntled posts over on the Apple support forum!

Not really. They made the update available, you just chose not to update the ipod.

No not at all - it was in a box and brand new- bought 9 months ago - so how could I "choose" not to update it? It wouldnt work "out of the box" - I couldn't connect it to iTunes AT ALL - ergo it was therefore un-updateable [sic] - they dropped the ball because they did not make the "new" much-lauded iTunes version 9 backwardly compatible to all of the software versions of iPod. It should have connected and "updated" on first plug-in - it didn't! Lots of other people all over the globe are having these issues and it seems Apple are now aware of it (so I am sure a software patch is imminent - they seem to do one every week!). If you subscribe to the "apple can do no wrong" school of thought then I'm afraid you are very sadly mistaken!

Edited by dealmaker on Friday 1st January 21:43

I don't subscribe to the 'apple can do no wrong' thing, but you go ahead and moan at apple because you left your ipod in its box for a year.

[Frik]

I think he'd be perfectly within his rights to moan. It seems to be a bit of a fk up on Apple's part.

[dealmaker]

Blue Meanie said:

dealmaker said:

Blue Meanie said:

dealmaker said:

Apple seemed to have dropped the ball big style on this one judging by all of the disgruntled posts over on the Apple support forum!

Not really. They made the update available, you just chose not to update the ipod.

No not at all - it was in a box and brand new- bought 9 months ago - so how could I "choose" not to update it? It wouldnt work "out of the box" - I couldn't connect it to iTunes AT ALL - ergo it was therefore un-updateable [sic] - they dropped the ball because they did not make the "new" much-lauded iTunes version 9 backwardly compatible to all of the software versions of iPod. It should have connected and "updated" on first plug-in - it didn't! Lots of other people all over the globe are having these issues and it seems Apple are now aware of it (so I am sure a software patch is imminent - they seem to do one every week!). If you subscribe to the "apple can do no wrong" school of thought then I'm afraid you are very sadly mistaken!

Edited by dealmaker on Friday 1st January 21:43

I don't subscribe to the 'apple can do no wrong' thing, but you go ahead and moan at apple because you left your ipod in its box for a year.

...seems it's happening to lots of people who have bought "brand new" classics ...that the retailers have been sitting on (due to the sucess of the iTouch rendering the classic out of favour).....so it's nothing to do with the fact that it sat in its box for 9 months - it could quite easliy have sat on a shelf at the retailers for that period.....I'm sensing a fan boy!!!

[PJ S]

Would agree that Apple's made a boo-boo on that front.
Worth feeding that back to them through iTunes Feedback.
Bit strange though, because they're normally on top of such things - mind you the first revision of iTunes 9 had a problem, whereby the mini-player function (normally when you hit the green traffic light) had been changed or left out.
I fed back my annoyance, and within a week or less, I think, there was a new version available, with one of the fixes being what I'd given them both barrels about.
Don't think it was my feedback that made them fix it, but nevertheless I felt better afterwards, and now everything's back to as it always has.
So, worth doing it, even if you think there's little chance they'll take any heed.