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In a magnificent piece of mistiming, I've discovered that Apple have released a firmware update to my iPod, one day after I managed to completely corrupt it and had to restore from scratch! Maybe the new firmware will prevent a recurrence of the corruption if I'm foolish enough to plug it in while there's a network drive mapped to the first drive letter... it might even fix the annoying problem where all my photos are displayed with a date of “Feb 2040”.

Also revisited the XSL and added a few tweaks to my Recently Played play-list. Artist names and song titles now link to last.fm (was audioscrobbler.com). It still doesn't get built automatically though....

A minor stupidity on my part and I plugged my iPod into the laptop while I'd mapped a network drive to the lowest available drive letter. The iPod started flashing its “Do not disconnect” message, iTunes started up and all looked normal... after a long time I had a look and saw that iTunes had decided that the iPod's name was the volume name of the network drive, but still nothing was happening.

Eventually I stopped it and restarted. Next time around iTunes seemed to think that the iPod had been renamed, but then claimed that it was synchronised to a different library, so I had to go through the whole rigmarole of blowing away all 6713 songs and reloading the lot — a ridiculously time consuming task!

Even after it had finished everything is still not right. Somewhere along the way the iPod has lost 23G of storage, only a subset of my library can now be copied! Next step is to restore it via the iPod updater, but that stalls wanting me to plug it into the external powersupply — the USB power isn't good enough! It shouldn't be this hard!

Interestingly, there seems to be a new folder called iPod Control created on the fileserver volume that I had mapped to drive F:, and it seems that iTunes was busy filling it up when I interrupted it! Definitely a no-no there Apple!

Stay tuned for tomorrow where I see if I can successfully access all 40G of the iPod and transfer my entire music library into it....

Note to self: DO NOT plug the iPod in when there's a network drive on the first available drive letter!

My iPod got sick... but it seemed to get better. I'm not sure what is happening, but sometimes it won't power off, ever since I got it, it doesn't seem to like powering off when in the photo menus. Today it got very confused, started displaying screen images over the top of other screen images. After about half an hour I could finally power it off, then when it came back on again it was behaving normally.