Defeated

Asked to carry out a simple task, failed. Why? What? How?

Just wanted to add some tracks to an iPod, without going through iTunes. The "normal" route would have lost all the existing data. Typically we do this using Xplay, a brilliant bit of software from mediafour. Except the iPod in question happened to be one of the new Nanos; worse, only had a short window in which to complete the task.

Fired up Xplay, connected iPod, tried for usual Explorer style interface but nothing. Error message saying transfer from PC to iPod wasn't going to happen. Looking deeper into the contants of the iPod there was purchased music, a few voice memos, and a collection of videos. Given time I think it would have been possible to copy all the non-DRM music etc off the nano, put it into iTunes and re-synced. But, I wasn't sure if we'd have lost all the personal voice / video content.

So .... I had to admit defeat. Eat humble pie. In the aftermath I have my fingers crossed that at some point in the future mediafour will come up with an upgrade to Xplay to fix this.

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