iPod playlists on the RCD 310

[Aidy06]

I admit itunes is horrible, if your looking at replacing it though then i'd defo try this first as i think it will work. Connect to itunes with your ipod plugged in, on the left hand side where it says your ipod click it and then it should show a picture of your ipod with software info, memory info and so on. Underneath where it says check for updates should be reset settings, be warned that you will lose everything saved to it and all settings will be reverted to factory settings

[Rolfe]

Good plan.

The reason I was trying to avoid that is just silly.  A couple of years ago when I got that iPod, I didn't have iTunes initially.  My home computer was on a slow dial-up at the time, and eventually it took hours to download over several sessions.  I didn't have admin privileges for my office computer.  A friend took the iPod and copied over some files from her own computer for me to play with, and she also bought me something from the iTunes store using her own identity.

Because of that, I have never been able to move these files off that iPod to either of my own computers.  It wasn't an expensive purchase, and I suppose I should just buy it again, but it's the principle of the thing.

If I do as you suggest, I'll lose that purchase.  But I can restore all my other playlists, so I'm just being silly.  I can't play it, practically, anyway.

Rolfe.

[Aidy06]

But your going to lose it either way, if you cant transfer then even if you buy a new ipod your out of pocket and still cant transfer it. Itunes is pants tbh, i try my hardest not to use it. If it works then dont forget to thank me as potentially i saved you some money 

[Rolfe]

But your going to lose it either way, if you cant transfer then even if you buy a new ipod your out of pocket and still cant transfer it. Itunes is pants tbh, i try my hardest not to use it. If it works then dont forget to thank me as potentially i saved you some money 

            

Thank you?  I kiss your boots!

Worked perfectly.  Now all I have to do is transfer the playlists back.

(Well, OK, my music collection is a bit of a mess because of stupid filenames which I changed, and probably didn't do it the right way, but that's a completely different can of worms.  The playlists work and that's the main thing.)

Rolfe.

[Aidy06]

My boots are abit filthy so you may have to clean them first  Glad it worked, tbh i knew it would 

[Rolfe]

  

The software asked me to name the iPod again.  It's now called "Prospero's iPod"  - see thread on naming cars!

Rolfe.

[Aidy06]

Great stuff   

[Rolfe]

Yes, we definitely have a result.  I just loaded all the playlists I have on this computer back onto the reset unit, and it's in the car and playing away merrily.

It's quite unintuitive to find your way around the menus, and it has a disconcerting habit of playing what seem to be absolutely random tracks from anywhere at all while you're finding what you want, but I can find the playlists and play the playlists, and that's what matters! 

Is my car the only one with its very own personal iPod?

Rolfe.

[GrantUK]

Yes, we definitely have a result.  I just loaded all the playlists I have on this computer back onto the reset unit, and it's in the car and playing away merrily.

It's quite unintuitive to find your way around the menus, and it has a disconcerting habit of playing what seem to be absolutely random tracks from anywhere at all while you're finding what you want, but I can find the playlists and play the playlists, and that's what matters! 

Is my car the only one with its very own personal iPod?

Rolfe.

Not quite an iPod, but similar: found an old passport harddrive which seems to work OK as dedicated storage...although the ID3 tags arent displaying like if I had my iPod connected 

[Teutonic_Tamer]

Yippee-de-doo-dah.... 

I don't quite know what I did, and I'm totally at sea with the instruction booklet, but somehow, it did it.

It scrolls awfully slowly down the playlists, and I've got an awful lot of them, but it does the job.  It's going to take a while if I want to play Wagner, that's all.... 

Can you not twiddle the knob in the opposite direction?  IE: A > Z > Y > X > W ??