my nano has fallen and can't get up!

[lupi]

After a year and a few months missing, I finallly found my nano in a drawer that someone had tossed it in to. So I took it out to the car, hooked it up, and played through it over the last week. Noticed that on abouut every album that a couple of songs didn't play right; the display showed the correct name but another song played instead.

So yesterday I loaded itunes back up and opened the music folder on it and itunes flagged about a third of the songs as bad. My first thought was that this is a data intergrity error from an extended period without power. Haven't gone through the process yet of reloading it to try, but anyone think there's a more than a minimal chance of the problem being an actual physical storage medium problem?

 

[gorcorps]

No way to know until you reformat it and use it like normal again.

 

[Phynaz]

Nah, it's database just got hosed.

Do a restore and you'll be fine.

 

[lupi]

I've been working on the restricted network more often at work lately so I haven't been able to listen to my podcast on the computer. So I went to fix the nano and use that. Even after deleting all the old files, explorer was only showing about 660 meg free of the 2 gig. Show I did a restore in itunes and it now shows the full 2 gig.

Unfortunately now that I am using it for daily podcast which involves loading and deleting from it daily, I longingly look forward to reading the news story where the lead itunes development team where all on a bus and involved in an accident which caused them to be run off a cliff.

 

[Phynaz]

If you don't like iTunes why use it?

There's got to be 100 alternatives.

 

[lupi]

I'd prefer to not use anything. Simple drag and drop of files would be nice.