iTunes 9 kills iPod classic

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September 17, 2009 10:30 am
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Update: Apple has just issued iTunes 9.0.3. Does it fix your iPod? Tell us now.

Update: Apple has declined to comment after we investigated your claims about iTunes 9 failing to sync with iPod Classics. Take a look at the latest news on it now.

iTunes 9 might be taking plenty of plaudits. But it seems it’s causing some serious issues for iPod classic owners, with a raft of reports about the newly minted music software failing to sync with the old–school PMP. Read on for all the details.

It appears iTunes 9 isn’t just about iTunes LP and iTunes Extras. Complaints on Apple Support forums, along with a lengthy list sent to AppleInsider, show that the software is causing the iPod classic to crash, fail to sync and lose its contents.

Users have complained that iTunes 9 fails to recognise the iPod classic, while one said that their 160GB model failed as soon as iTunes 9 was installed on Snow Leopard.

iTunes 9 debuts sharing, syncing and Genius extras

Restoring factory settings hasn’t worked for some users either, with plenty left with an empty iPod and no way of loading it up thanks to the lack of support from iTunes 9.

We’ve got a call in with Apple, but in the meantime let us know whether you’ve had any problems down in the comments section.

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  • http://is-the-ipad-worth-it.wikispaces.com/Apple+Ipad+First+Thoughts Michaele Cudan

    I just recently picked up the ipad touch,havent dug through it to figure out all the ins and outs but from what I can see its a pretty decent little piece of technology.

  • Nikolaj

    Hi there! @Sandra: I Had the same problem with my nano, but I got it t work again by opening the drive through explorer and deleting all content on it (You have to switch on hidden folders so you can delete the hidden one as well)!! Then I reinserted it and iTunes told me that something was missing on the ipod. I pressed restore and iTunes did so. It worked.. Now I haven’t dared reinserting it, but my guess would be that I’d have to go through the same process every time!
    I don’t know if that will work on the iPod Classic, but I’m going to try it out now since I have the same problem on that one as well (And I’ve already “restored” it using iTunes).

    Hope this will help you :)
    - Nikolaj

  • Simon

    I hadn't upgraded until about a month ago (as I don't use my Classic that much) but since then I can't synch my entire library. I can occasionally synch a small part of it but what's the point in that as I have the 160Gb because I have about 120Gb of files to upload – and it won't all fit on my 80Gb. I have however synched my 80 Gb with no apparent problems – so not sure if this is just a 160 problem

  • Darkblue

    got the update Thursday, sync'd ipod sunday night, now dead ipod classic it wont repair / restore as I dont have admin privileges????? mental I wiped it in disk utilty to start from scratch it did sync at this point then blocked out all access and thinks its a ipod nano
    brillant I love being Apple's Beta testers

  • Tonylebaigue

    Both my son and I have iPod classics – today his ipod would not sync, crashed itunes and got error 126 forcing a reload of itunes and the software for his iPod – however after this is reloaded the crashing problem persists everytime he tries to sync his ipod

  • Annoyed

    I had this problem. The solution was to reinstall iTunes 8.

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