ipod woes - almost

I have an iPod shuffle that I use when I work out. It's the clip on kind and I love it but the other day when I went to listen to it; it did not want to play. Just flashing yellow and then green. <sigh> so no music as I worked out.

I thought the shuffle was a goner but a little Google and some persistence and my shuffle is back!

It was totally odd series of steps I had to take but what ever combination of the things I tried finally worked this morning when iTunes saw the iPod and was able to restore it and I was able to sync my workout music to it.

BTW: @anne my iPod shuffle has some of those same songs you mentioned and I have not one iota of guilt for liking pop music.

Totally made my day!

@tinypliny My solution was so convoluted I'm not sure it would work for anyone else. It also involved some cursing and talking to the ipod and then rebooting and going to bed!

Here is a link to the article I read



I also unplugged all my other ipod and my external USB drive while trying the recovery.

I really cannot say what exactly of all the things I tried worked.

I am fairly certain that swearing at the ipod and speaking to it probably had very little to do with it now working but you never know.