My iPod Nano crashed because…
So what happened to make my iPod Nano crash after loading the music onto it using AmaroK? I’m not 100% sure, but I do know that it had to do with certain songs on certain playlists. I know that there was some sort of issue with a Misfits playlist I had created (I love the boxed set they released a few years back by the way). It would play just fine within AmaroK, but whenever I used AmaroK to load it onto my iPod, it seems that those particular tracks caused the iPod to crash. Workaround: delete the tracks from the iPod and listen to something else.
Yeah, it’s a sucky workaround, but until I know the actual reason as to why those specific tracks caused the crash, I’ll either have to avoid them or load them using iTunes. And since I’m avoiding Windows XP like the plague, looks like I’m avoiding them for now.
The good news is that after deleting the tracks from my iPod I can now use the “Shuffle Songs” option again. I’ll have to see if there’s some sort of plugin for Amarok that does some sort of error checking or something like that.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
I’ve got a 2nd gen nano 4gb and when loaded using Amarok certain songs cause it to reset and display the apple logo. My workaround was to install gtkpod and use it to load the songs onto the iPod. It worked for me and previously unplayable songs are now fine. It’s strange though because both gtkpod and amarok use the same libgpod library…