I’m not a happy camper as I am writing this. I simply wanted to add some music to my iPod. Gtkpod froze and my computer was heating up. Must be a bug. Rhythymbox works but I decide to try Banshee 1.4, Bad idea! I am able to load new music fine. I unplug the iPod after it says that I can disconnect it. No music on the ‘pod. What is going on? Plug the iPod and I can see the music so I disconnect it once more and still no music. I restart the ‘pod by pressing the “Menu” and “Select” buttons simultaneously. The iPod restarts, still no music. I am pissed off!
I connect the iPod back to the computer and I “Drag’N’Drop” the songs, all 11016 of them, on my laptop. I don’t feel like pulling out all my CDs and ripping them again so that I can place them in the ‘pod. I boot Windows XP from the only computer that I own which still has Windows on it and do a factory reset on the iPod using iTunes.
I spend several hours, over several days loading up my iPod with music. I used Rhythymbox Music Player to load the music in the ‘Pod. I have to mention that this post has been written in three steps: the first paragraph was written when my iPod “lost” all of it’s songs two weeks ago. The second paragraph and the first sentence of the third paragraph was written a week later. The rest was written today the day I published the post.
I now know that Banshee 1.4 is the culprit in losing all the songs. I taught that maybe gtkpod was since it had frozen and I had to terminate it because my computer was overheating. It took all my courage to try uploading songs in my iPod using Banshee and it worked but when I eject the ‘Pod it says that I have “0 songs”. I know for a fact that I have 11037 on it since I just loaded 21 songs using Banshee 1.4. Damn, damn, damn. I plugin the iPod to my laptop. I launch Rhythymbox. I see all 11037 songs. I play one of the songs I just uploaded using Banshee. It plays fine. I unplug the iPod and low and behold all my songs are there. I am so glad, that I am glad, that I’m glad; to quote Cream. I must dig out their CD and add that song to my iPod. So I have learned that I cannot use Banshee as my all purpose music player/iPod loader. I must keep on using Rhythymbox.
I really liked Banshee 1.4 but I cannot use it because of this problem. If you do not have an iPod I whole heartily recommend it, but if you do I cannot recommend it. Apparently I am the only person that has this problem since I cannot find anybody else on the web with the same problem. I wonder if it is because I have the 64 bit version of intrepid installed?
If you know of a solution please leave a comment, thanks.