Problem with my iPod classic
Thursday, 17 July 2008 | 162 readers so far
My iPod classic is one of the technology tools that enriches my life the most. I have thousands and thousands of dollars worth of gadgets but the iPod gets the most use. It’s my traveling companion. It reads my audiobooks on my long commute. It plays my Free Talk Live and Dan Carlin. By the way, Dan Carlin has two of the best podcast shows I’ve ever heard, Common Sense and Hardcore History. If you check him out and you like him, give him a couple bucks. Totally worth it.
When my iPod doesn’t work right (which hasn’t happened until this morning) I get a very off kilter feeling. What am I supposed to do on the hour plus drive? I usually listen to the first half of Free Talk Live and then hit the second half on my way home. This morning, I couldn’t do that because my iPod was locked up. I took it off hold and it just stayed on hold.
This particular iPod has been gold. I was once running on a treadmill when I accidentally jerked it off the ledge it was sitting on. The iPod flew across the room and just kept playing without missing a beat. This morning, however, it wouldn’t respond to my commands to download my podcast. Plugging it in had no effect. I had no idea what to do and I was running late for work. iPods, in case you’ve never owned one, have no obvious reset button.
Long story short, I left for work in a bad mood, without my podcast. I was forced to listen to Wall Street Journal on my XM Radio. When I got to work, I was in the doldrums, thinking I would be shelling out for a new iPod. I was wrong. An iPod classic can be reset. In my case, that cleared up the issue. My audiobooks, movies, music collection and massive set of podcasts is once again available for me to have eargasms.
I’m back in balance with the universe.
1 July 17th, 2008 at 9:24 am
T F Stern says:
I had a replacement radio installed in my work truck so that iPod could be hard wired in. When I fly, not very often, I use the smaller ear plugs on the iPod to shield my ears from the jet noise and to let me enjoy “everything” that I have, books and music all stored away in that neat device. I need to buy a battery back up as my old unit is getting less and less battery time. I will do that this morning.
2 July 17th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Trevor says:
Hey TF. I don’t know how long the batteries last in an iPod, but my charge seems to be the same as it was on day one after a year.
3 July 18th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Jeff says:
So you still feel good about buying a MacBook Air, right?
Long story short, Apple rocks!
4 July 18th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Trevor says:
Yeah, Jeff, I am intimately familiar with your opinion on Mac! I am still thinking about a MacBook Air for writing my great American novel.