Well, it just so happened that iTunes refused to read my iPod one day and said, “go reset your settings”. I did not notice the Reset button IN ITUNES.. but went ahead and chose the “Reset to factory settings” on the iPod menu. Guess what, that just deletes EVERYTHING on your iPod WITHOUT warning you about that.
So there goes my thriving 240 song collection! A frantic search on the internet for iPod recovery softwares later, I found “Recover My iPod”. I wasn’t too optimistic about it since the “undelete/recover/resurrect…” softwares always produce too much of strangely named junk – in my opinion – that needs hours and hours of investigative work.
But this one wasn’t that bad. Only thing is, it pulled some of the songs that were supposed to be left in their graves. So anyway, I had to take care of them separately and push them back in their graves on my iPod. But overall, I did recover all my songs but not my Playlists..
So, I now have a single all inclusive Playlist sorted alphabetically.. better than nothing I say! Another lesson learned – backup your iPod more often! Is there a backup software that can backup your Playlists too?
Finally I found something interesting to blog about! So here is what happened. I was searching for my iPod for a good bit of this week. And finally yesterday I found it in my washer. I had accidentally left it in the pocket of my Tennis shorts and that went for a nice 60 minute tumble wash! When I found it, the poor thing was lying there in the washer.. lifeless and quiet.
I looked at it and saw any hopes of getting my precious music out of it, going down in drains. But as if some unknown force was guiding me through these troubling times, I sprang into action and started with my emergency instincts. I quickly put it on ‘Oxygen’ – aka – connected it to its charger. I made sure nobody knew about this.. I knew I had to revive it first before basking in the limelight of my own stupidity. So I left it there to recover on its own for about an hour.
And I was thinking.. what if it doesn’t work? My rare song collection was never backed up. I guess I was too arrogantly confident about technology and also about my own self! I could see myself standing in front of my music loving 2yr old son like a criminal. My wife would have scored another victorious moment, with me standing there trying to defend my forgetfulness and clumsiness. No way! Can’t let that happen, o’ great iPod, don’t you die on me now.. come on, fight for your life, fight for me! And so the prayers went on…
I came back after doing some ‘tense’ grocery shopping and saw that the iPod was…….. A L I V E ! The screen was cloudy with some soap water, but it could play all the songs with a very *clean* sound! A few more hours and that too was gone and the screen was clean too. First thing I did? – downloaded ‘EphPod’ and backed up my music to my external hard drive.
Now I didn’t say, you should clean your iPod this way to keep it looking new, did I? Nor did I say you should take it with you while you are swimming. But if you did so by mistake, just remember, no need to get suicidal (!!), it just might be alright after all! And well, driers are a different beasts, I guess……… will let you know if mine ever goes through that ordeal in the future 