Sometimes Banging Your Head Does The Trick...

A prior post mentioned a new iPod Nano. That's only half the story....The Nano was for me because the lack of moving parts in the device allows me to use it while riding my bike. But the limitation is the hard drive...it only has 16 gigs. I have more than twice that amount of music.

I purchased an 80 gig iPod Classic for Michelle's car. I figured if I load it up with music then we wouldn't need CD's or satellite radio (which plays some really weird stuff anyway - what I really need is Pandora in my car....but that's another story.)

The only problem was the iPod didn't seem to work. It would lock up when syncing, it would freeze iTunes on my laptop, or lock up my entire computer. Aaaaauuuggghhh. I tried everything from restarting and switching cables to syncing just one playlist at a time. I was frustrated.

Then I started googling some of the error messages and found a post describing how to completely reformat the iPod hard drive using Windows. Once I did that, the iPod worked like a dream.

I synced 5350 songs onto the iPod for Michelle. That should keep us entertained for awhile and make for a really long road trip. Where to? Not sure :)

How long of a road trip? How about 16 days...you have to appreciate a software company that converts the amount of music value from hours to days once the value is large enough.