Frustrated!

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Now, here is a little thing that's really getting to me.

Yesterday, I had a small windfall from the tax office, so I went out and bought a new iPod Nano 16 gig (seeing as how the internal battery of my last Nano carked it about two years ago).

I've been using just a generic MP3 player I bought for $20 in the interim.

So, I opened it up, plugged it in and went into iTunes (I have about 200 songs in my iTunes folder) and the damn iPod refused to synchronise. I clicked the 'Synchronise' button over and over...but nothing happened....nothing.

So, I thought; 'hey, maybe the iPod DID synchronise when I wasn't looking, so I went into the music folder of my iPod and it said 'empty'.

I tried hitting the Synchronise button a few times more, and nothing happened again...

So, I thought 'right, maybe I need to register this iPod FIRST', so I went into the page that does that, filled it all in, submitted it and it came back with an error (as online forms always do for me), with 'please enter post code'....problem was, there wasn't any space to enter my post code...so I typed in my post-code in every box I could place my cursor in, but the error still came up 'please enter post-code'.

Then, I went on the internet to find out why iTunes wasn't letting me enter my post code and I found I had to change the country code on iTunes main Store page...so I did that...and nothing changed. I STILL couldn't enter my post code...

So, I decided to skip the registration procedure with a 'register later' and tried to synchronise my iPod again....no luck.

Then, I re-installed iTunes and updated it, turned the whole PC off and re-booted it and tried it all again from scratch...nothing. I restored the iPod to factory settings and tried again....nothing.

It was then, I figured the problem must be in the iPod itself and not the PC or iTunes, so I packed it away and I am going to return it to the shop and get my money back and only use my cheap MP3 player.

At least I can plug it in, download songs straight from my music folder onto it through 'drag and drop' and I am ready to go...only problem being, it doesn't 'shuffle' and I cannot re-arrange the order of songs once I put them there.

Nah, iPods. iTunes and all of that is far too complicated for me to understand now (I can fully admit to being a 'technophobe') and when things are far beyond my capability of understanding them, sometimes it's just better to totally give up than to even try.

God, iTunes and stuff was so easy to use when it first came out...wtf happened to that?

Solved your own problem there, good on yer!

All you really get for the extra cost is that you can see the name of the song playing, and making yourself a target for thieves or risk having someone calling you a C.U.B., that or driving yourself barmy when you misplace it!

Your extra money will be more happily spent elsewhere, maybe get quite the haul at the tip shop

Additionally, most anything you'll want to hear can be cued up on Youtube, Spotify or Grooveshark which cost nothing