I recently got the classic 160 gb ipod and have been having problems with it ever since I put a shit load of music on it.


Had about 130 gb on there and it was really slow and unresponsive to the point that it would freeze up after playing half of a song. The ipod tech dude erased all my music and put 20 songs on there and magically it was responsive again.

I put back about 70 gb of music and its becoming sluggish and freezing up on me again. This time not as quickly as the first but it is freezing up none-the-less.

Anyone else having problems like this?

Was curious if these new 160 gb ipods cant handle that much music.

[Edited on January 19, 2008 at 3:23 AM. Reason : s]

1/19/2008 3:17:56 AM

I had my iPod get really slow and it turned out it had something like 95% file fragmentation. I defragmented it and it ran much better afterwards.

1/19/2008 4:15:40 AM

how the hell do you defragment your ipod?


I dont remember seeing an option in itunes for that

[Edited on January 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM. Reason : t]

1/19/2008 11:17:28 AM

Assuming you're running Windows: hook it up, it will show up as a mass storage device under My Computer, right click on it, Properties, Tools, defragment.

1/19/2008 12:26:39 PM

oh snap....I thought that was the way to do it but didnt think you could do it on an ipod.

thanks

will give it a try

1/19/2008 2:24:56 PM

alright just analyzed my ipod on the disk defragmenter and it basically said I didnt need to defragment it.

Time to go to the ipod store and ask for a new one

thanks for the help

1/19/2008 2:36:19 PM

just a note for mac people you can defrag/optimize via disk utility

1/19/2008 4:43:26 PM

have you updated to the most recent ipod version, its different than itunes version

they came out with a fix about a month or two ago that was supposed to fix some coverflow/sluggish problems and it worked wonders for mine

1/19/2008 6:37:19 PM

but a bitch aint one

1/20/2008 5:33:58 PM

^^yea just did it yesterday

will hook it up to my ipod stereo thingie and see if it freezes up again

1/20/2008 6:50:11 PM

I had the 160gb ipod classic, just got it for Christmas and first thing i noticed when i got it was that it was incredibly sluggish. I had about 120+gb of music on it. I had my 21st bday party this weekend and someone stole it.

Cops are looking into this one.

2/19/2008 4:35:33 PM

Quote :

"just a note for mac people you can defrag/optimize via disk utility "

Disk Utility doesn't defragment.

The ipod shouldn't get fragmented though if you copy all the songs at once.

2/19/2008 6:00:30 PM

Quote :

"Cops are looking into this one."

2/19/2008 10:20:54 PM

it's b/c someone stole it...

but yeah, it's gone dude, don't waste my tax dollars having the cops even bother with the paperwork, you aren't gonna see it again...

2/20/2008 9:04:44 AM