Slant (Bias Tape)

[jheti]

Mornings call for a scowl, isn't it so?

(Lol orange and teal, way to back the wrong team, Jhets. XD Ten bucks says they beat the fuck out of us last night; no, I haven't looked; the student rag will scream all about it Monday, anyway.

Speaking of: I cannot believe I ever, ever thought I would want to be a journalist. Although apparently I could do it with my eyes shut. Given that it appears to be the procedure they're using. Oh, technical writing minor, you are exhausting but you're helping me meet graduate deadlines and develop--GASP--study skills.

Those of us who were forcefed them for the benefit of their immediate superiors know these things are behavior modification; sit down or I will sit you down, little girl. Shhh. No! We do not bite our classmates. Correction: we do not get caught. Om nom nom? ^_~)

Hahaha, my I-Pod is so weird. It won't update no matter what I do to it, so I've set it to manual synch, which, the new I-Tunes is a bitch. It took me TWENTY MINUTES TO FIND THE SETTING.

I have been doing this:

Make sure I-Tunes can "see" my I-Pod
Put shit in I-Tunes library
Click on I-Pod (in 'Tunes menu bar thing)
Then click Autofill from Music (in a rolldown on the bottom left)

OH WISEST FLIST, IS THERE A BETTER WAY?

Mmm, breakcore. *Licks.* Huge dark crashing stomp and wet things that skitter.

Dear Zombieland, please hurry your way onto DVD, that I may watch you over and over and over and over until there is a scratch in the disc. <3

I still have so much work to do.

Comments

[nyohah.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're on manual sync, you can just drag songs from your library over to your iPod if you know what it is you want to add. That's the way I did it for ages, and it's especially good if you don't normally use iTunes and thus don't keep all your music in it. You can just add to iTunes what you want to add to the iPod, and then drag that over to the iPod itself.

You can also try going to the iPod settings page (click on the iPod name), and do a Restore. That will erase everything off it, but it's like a reformat, and it may fix your auto-sync problems.

[jheti.livejournal.com]

I suspect I'm going to have to format her. Which entails prying all the music off her first. Because she's got things I don't have on my computer anymore, owing to the Many Crashes Past >_< Which is why I've been twiddling with Manual in the first place.

Thank you ^_^ I will try it and see if it works!

[nyohah.livejournal.com]

Getting the music off your iPod is actually really easy (or at least it is with my iPod, which is, admittedly, three years old).

1. Open the drive for your iPod in Windows Explorer. (Should be F: or something.)
2. Go to Folder Options and set it to show hidden folders if it isn't already. (In Vista, Organize->Folder and Search Options->View and selected "Show hidden files and folders" in the Advanced Settings box.)
3. There should now be a transparent folder called iPod_Control. Open it, then open the Music folder inside.
4. Copy all!

So, now your music is on your computer's hard drive. The crappy part is that every file has a file name that is four random letters or numbers, and they are randomly dispersed throughout 50 folders. If you import them back into iTunes, they will of course still have the artist name and song name, etc., so you can then go back through and rename all the files if you choose. Or just leave them if, unlike me, you are not anal about such things.