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ZZangDreamjOy
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada959 Posts
March 01 2010 21:31 GMT
#1
I'm looking for a replacement for iTunes, as every time I try to transfer music to my iPod through iTunes, sooner or later it hits a random song, doesn't matter what, and gives me a error either -53 or -69, which ends up making all the music ON my iPod not be playable. Sometimes it even freezes during the transfer, so I can't etg my music on it.

Anyone have any ideas?

HitEmUp
blabber
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4448 Posts
March 01 2010 21:37 GMT
#2
try resetting your ipod?
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mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5657 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-01 21:44:59
March 01 2010 21:44 GMT
#3
i got tired of itunes and just use WMP now and I like it wayyyyy better.

different strokes though.

also I have a Zune, not an ipod, so ya
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ZZangDreamjOy
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada959 Posts
March 01 2010 21:50 GMT
#4
I had a Zune, but it was a 80 gig, and the quality of the make was terrible. It was a great mp3 player, but without any EQ settings, and the fact that after it fell one foot, and got set on lock permanantly, eh. Screen cracks really easily too, with no pressure.

I got a 80 gb iPod for free from a friend who moved away, and iTunes is just terrible. I've reformatted my iPod 4 different times. It just randomly stopped working.

I found a program called Sharepod though, and os far it seems to be working, only time will tell.
HitEmUp
rkarhu
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Finland570 Posts
March 01 2010 22:02 GMT
#5
Use the winamp, that's what I do.
dyren
Profile Joined December 2009
United States260 Posts
March 01 2010 22:03 GMT
#6
On March 02 2010 07:02 rkarhu wrote:
Use the winamp, that's what I do.

Winamp is the best. You can sync to ipod with it too.
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zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
March 01 2010 22:27 GMT
#7
I use foobar, you need the ipod manager plugin
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21247 Posts
March 01 2010 22:27 GMT
#8
foobar2000 is basically god, get it.
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sharkeyanti
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1273 Posts
March 01 2010 22:27 GMT
#9
Try resetting your iPod before you make a full switch to a different program. It sounds like an issue with the pod unless iTunes gives you trouble in other situations?
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intrudor
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada446 Posts
March 01 2010 22:34 GMT
#10
iTunes is horrible if you're running windows. but that doesnt explain why your iPod is fucking up. it HAS to be that your iPod itself is fucked up. Just get a new one, and use foobar2000, its by far the best program.
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[GiTM]-Ace
Profile Joined September 2002
United States4935 Posts
March 01 2010 22:57 GMT
#11
you can sync winamp with ipods? ARE YOU SRS? I hate itunes =[
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Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21247 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-01 22:59:41
March 01 2010 22:58 GMT
#12
On March 02 2010 07:57 [GiTM]-Ace wrote:
you can sync winamp with ipods? ARE YOU SRS? I hate itunes =[


Yeah WinAmp too, there's an add-on, but it's a bit buggy I felt. Once after a sync my iPhone ended up crashing everytime I scrolled past the letter D in artist names so I ended up having to reset it and re-sync with iTunes. That was kind of annoying.

Even if you're not experiencing any problems iTunes, I strongly suggest you switch to either WinAmp or foobar2000. It's just a better program.
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Sosha
Profile Joined August 2004
United States749 Posts
March 01 2010 23:01 GMT
#13
On March 02 2010 06:50 ZZangDreamjOy wrote:
I had a Zune, but it was a 80 gig, and the quality of the make was terrible. It was a great mp3 player, but without any EQ settings, and the fact that after it fell one foot, and got set on lock permanantly, eh. Screen cracks really easily too, with no pressure.

I got a 80 gb iPod for free from a friend who moved away, and iTunes is just terrible. I've reformatted my iPod 4 different times. It just randomly stopped working.

I found a program called Sharepod though, and os far it seems to be working, only time will tell.


correction: Itunes is great. Itunes along with ipod is the biggest selling and most successful portable mp3 player on the market.. zune is like 1/5th as big as ipod is.
I mean, sorry to hear about ur troubles w/ ur itunes and ur ipod and im not sure what might be wrong with it.. i've never really came across a problem that serious before.. nothing that couldn't be cured with a little research.

hope u find a good, well working alternative to itunes or at least, try to start all over w/ a new itunes version w/ a reformatted ipod (u dont have to lose all ur music to do this and is worth a shot)
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VManOfMana
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States764 Posts
March 01 2010 23:13 GMT
#14
ITunes/Windows *is* clunky. It can be a nice music organizer, but it is not the snappiest program. It is good enough if all you want is to buy or sync music, but it is not the ideal everyday player on Windows.

iTunes/mac is a other story.

You can always use something else to play music. Before switching to mac I used to drag-and-drop my music files into iTunes, then sync. iTunes will not reorganize he files on your collection if you unchecked the appropriate setting.
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Impervious
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada4222 Posts
March 01 2010 23:22 GMT
#15
Itunes is terrible.

I had to reformat my computer last week, and since the new Itunes account on this computer is the new primary, it wants to sync my Ipod to it. Currently, my computer has zero songs on it - my Ipod has everything..... So you can guess what it wants to do to the music on my Ipod..... And you can't go the other way around unless the song was bought off of the Itunes site.....

I'll say it again. Itunes is terrible. WMP is so much better, but you can't use it for an Ipod.....
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ZZangDreamjOy
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada959 Posts
March 01 2010 23:27 GMT
#16
On March 02 2010 08:01 Sosha wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 02 2010 06:50 ZZangDreamjOy wrote:
I had a Zune, but it was a 80 gig, and the quality of the make was terrible. It was a great mp3 player, but without any EQ settings, and the fact that after it fell one foot, and got set on lock permanantly, eh. Screen cracks really easily too, with no pressure.

I got a 80 gb iPod for free from a friend who moved away, and iTunes is just terrible. I've reformatted my iPod 4 different times. It just randomly stopped working.

I found a program called Sharepod though, and os far it seems to be working, only time will tell.


correction: Itunes is great. Itunes along with ipod is the biggest selling and most successful portable mp3 player on the market.. zune is like 1/5th as big as ipod is.
I mean, sorry to hear about ur troubles w/ ur itunes and ur ipod and im not sure what might be wrong with it.. i've never really came across a problem that serious before.. nothing that couldn't be cured with a little research.

hope u find a good, well working alternative to itunes or at least, try to start all over w/ a new itunes version w/ a reformatted ipod (u dont have to lose all ur music to do this and is worth a shot)


iTunes is awful. Absolutely awful. Just because the ipod sells more, does not mean its better. I mean, look at the MAC, or a fucking iPad. LOL.

I'm hoping sharepod will work. Its still loading music onto my iPod. I have no money for another though.
HitEmUp
intrudor
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada446 Posts
March 01 2010 23:32 GMT
#17
guys, just use iPods and foobar2000.

case closed.


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ejac
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States1195 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-02 00:02:56
March 02 2010 00:00 GMT
#18
First try reformatting your ipod. If that doesn't work, I'd suggest songbird. It uses the exact same interface as itunes but is waaaayyyy better and customizable.It has ipod support through an add-on.
esq>n
sharkeyanti
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1273 Posts
March 02 2010 00:09 GMT
#19
On March 02 2010 09:00 ejac wrote:
First try reformatting your ipod. If that doesn't work, I'd suggest songbird. It uses the exact same interface as itunes but is waaaayyyy better and customizable.It has ipod support through an add-on.


I'd agree. I'm an iTunes user myself, but Songbird is a really sweet program.
Hi Mom
flamewheel
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
March 02 2010 01:11 GMT
#20
WMP is so much better than iTunes for me, since I don't like having such a huge library.
Though it does seem like you need to reformat your iPod. Have you tried calling the manufacturers?
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DeathByMonkeys
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States742 Posts
March 02 2010 01:24 GMT
#21
On March 02 2010 09:09 sharkeyanti wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 02 2010 09:00 ejac wrote:
First try reformatting your ipod. If that doesn't work, I'd suggest songbird. It uses the exact same interface as itunes but is waaaayyyy better and customizable.It has ipod support through an add-on.


I'd agree. I'm an iTunes user myself, but Songbird is a really sweet program.


I agree with both of you, I've tried Songbird and absolutely loved it. That didn't stop me from uninstalling it due to it using 5x as many resources as iTunes.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
March 02 2010 02:18 GMT
#22
On March 02 2010 08:22 lMPERVlOUS wrote:
Itunes is terrible.

I had to reformat my computer last week, and since the new Itunes account on this computer is the new primary, it wants to sync my Ipod to it. Currently, my computer has zero songs on it - my Ipod has everything..... So you can guess what it wants to do to the music on my Ipod..... And you can't go the other way around unless the song was bought off of the Itunes site.....

I'll say it again. Itunes is terrible. WMP is so much better, but you can't use it for an Ipod.....

Just google and find sharepod, you noob. Lets you transfer songs from your ipod to your PC, regardless of where you got them

Literally every complaint people have about iPod was solved years and years ago by the absolutely gigantic base of 3rd party applications people have made for it. That's why it's good to have the most popular player on the market... Just like it's good to have windows. Everything is designed for it.

That said, I got off the iPod horse when I found out there was no rockbox for the newest generation, and I prefer using ogg format. But still, 2 years ago what I'm saying is true! Shame on you if you don't do product research
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Linx_101
Profile Joined November 2008
Canada166 Posts
March 02 2010 02:41 GMT
#23
Use CopyTrans Manager

or Sharepod (doesn't work with iphones)
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Impervious
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada4222 Posts
March 02 2010 03:27 GMT
#24
On March 02 2010 11:18 Chef wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 02 2010 08:22 lMPERVlOUS wrote:
Itunes is terrible.

I had to reformat my computer last week, and since the new Itunes account on this computer is the new primary, it wants to sync my Ipod to it. Currently, my computer has zero songs on it - my Ipod has everything..... So you can guess what it wants to do to the music on my Ipod..... And you can't go the other way around unless the song was bought off of the Itunes site.....

I'll say it again. Itunes is terrible. WMP is so much better, but you can't use it for an Ipod.....

Just google and find sharepod, you noob. Lets you transfer songs from your ipod to your PC, regardless of where you got them

Literally every complaint people have about iPod was solved years and years ago by the absolutely gigantic base of 3rd party applications people have made for it. That's why it's good to have the most popular player on the market... Just like it's good to have windows. Everything is designed for it.

That said, I got off the iPod horse when I found out there was no rockbox for the newest generation, and I prefer using ogg format. But still, 2 years ago what I'm saying is true! Shame on you if you don't do product research


That's far from my only gripe with Itunes at the moment though..... And I wouldn't have bought it, it was a Christmas gift..... Basically, what happened was I got a store credit with my previous player when it broke, and my mother decided to spend it on an Ipod touch..... Yea..... I was thinking about getting a Zune 120 as a replacement with that credit, and it would have come cheaper too..... Considering that I don't use any of the aps other than the calculator.....

Yea. Itunes is terrible. As are Ipods.
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ejac
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States1195 Posts
March 02 2010 07:43 GMT
#25
On March 02 2010 10:24 DeathByMonkeys wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 02 2010 09:09 sharkeyanti wrote:
On March 02 2010 09:00 ejac wrote:
First try reformatting your ipod. If that doesn't work, I'd suggest songbird. It uses the exact same interface as itunes but is waaaayyyy better and customizable.It has ipod support through an add-on.


I'd agree. I'm an iTunes user myself, but Songbird is a really sweet program.


I agree with both of you, I've tried Songbird and absolutely loved it. That didn't stop me from uninstalling it due to it using 5x as many resources as iTunes.

I don't know about you, but it uses basically the exact same as me, and yes I did compare.
esq>n
intrudor
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada446 Posts
March 03 2010 18:46 GMT
#26
ipods are fine

itunes is terrible

dont confuse the two
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
March 03 2010 21:18 GMT
#27
On March 02 2010 08:27 ZZangDreamjOy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 02 2010 08:01 Sosha wrote:
On March 02 2010 06:50 ZZangDreamjOy wrote:
I had a Zune, but it was a 80 gig, and the quality of the make was terrible. It was a great mp3 player, but without any EQ settings, and the fact that after it fell one foot, and got set on lock permanantly, eh. Screen cracks really easily too, with no pressure.

I got a 80 gb iPod for free from a friend who moved away, and iTunes is just terrible. I've reformatted my iPod 4 different times. It just randomly stopped working.

I found a program called Sharepod though, and os far it seems to be working, only time will tell.


correction: Itunes is great. Itunes along with ipod is the biggest selling and most successful portable mp3 player on the market.. zune is like 1/5th as big as ipod is.
I mean, sorry to hear about ur troubles w/ ur itunes and ur ipod and im not sure what might be wrong with it.. i've never really came across a problem that serious before.. nothing that couldn't be cured with a little research.

hope u find a good, well working alternative to itunes or at least, try to start all over w/ a new itunes version w/ a reformatted ipod (u dont have to lose all ur music to do this and is worth a shot)


iTunes is awful. Absolutely awful. Just because the ipod sells more, does not mean its better. I mean, look at the MAC, or a fucking iPad. LOL.

I'm hoping sharepod will work. Its still loading music onto my iPod. I have no money for another though.


actually , if you show hidden files you can browse your ipod like a drive (maybe you have to enable this actually) and you can find all your songs in mp3 (or similar) format. They are just named all funky, the id3 tags are still i tact though, so just copy all that shit from your ipod to your comp.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
SkylineSC
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States564 Posts
April 22 2010 01:44 GMT
#28
media monkey has the strongest organization features out of winamp, itunes, wmp, uses little memory, syncs with ipod with no add-ons.
tonight
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States11130 Posts
April 22 2010 01:56 GMT
#29
I've had an iPod for 3-4years I think and I've never had a problem with iTunes.
if I come without a thing, then I come with all I need @tonightsend
madnessman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States1581 Posts
April 22 2010 01:57 GMT
#30
On March 02 2010 06:50 ZZangDreamjOy wrote:
I had a Zune, but it was a 80 gig, and the quality of the make was terrible. It was a great mp3 player, but without any EQ settings, and the fact that after it fell one foot, and got set on lock permanantly, eh. Screen cracks really easily too, with no pressure.

I got a 80 gb iPod for free from a friend who moved away, and iTunes is just terrible. I've reformatted my iPod 4 different times. It just randomly stopped working.

I found a program called Sharepod though, and os far it seems to be working, only time will tell.
hahah oh man, I thought I was the only one who owned a Zune. jk, but in all honesty- I really liked my Zune 80gb. Unfortunately I was stupid enough to put it my pocket while snowboarding on a pretty icy day... Fell on an ice patch, smashed my screen.. QQ.
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