Digging around in my garage last week I unearthed my old iPod. I bought it around 2005/2006 and lost it a couple of years later. It's missing over a decade. It's a 5th generation I believe, 160gb.
I have spent a week listening to my old music, and the trip down memory lane has been cool, but I would like to add my current flavors to what's already on it. This is where I need advice.
I have a traumatic incident in my past involving iPods. The iPod I had before this one (early 2000's), I had full of music, and I got a new computer and when I plugged the iPod into the new computer, it "sync'd" with the new computer that had no music on it, therefore the iPod now had no music on it. I was horrified. That music did not exist anywhere except on my iPod, and now it was all gone. I don't remember the exact details; exactly what I clicked, what agreements I agreed to, etc. All I know is I was left with a lasting phobia of plugging an iPod into a computer.
Also I know more than a handful of disenchanted post-iphone users who are now android fans due to Apple pushing iPhone updates to older phones which bog them down and make them crash. I don't know if Apple is doing the same thing to iPods.
Should I be afraid to plug my iPod into my computer? Is there any real danger of all my old songs being erased? If, so, is there any workaround? Should I be afraid of iTunes pushing a crippling update to my iPod? If so, is just safe enough if I just unplug the internet while the iPod is plugged in?
I have spent a week listening to my old music, and the trip down memory lane has been cool, but I would like to add my current flavors to what's already on it. This is where I need advice.
I have a traumatic incident in my past involving iPods. The iPod I had before this one (early 2000's), I had full of music, and I got a new computer and when I plugged the iPod into the new computer, it "sync'd" with the new computer that had no music on it, therefore the iPod now had no music on it. I was horrified. That music did not exist anywhere except on my iPod, and now it was all gone. I don't remember the exact details; exactly what I clicked, what agreements I agreed to, etc. All I know is I was left with a lasting phobia of plugging an iPod into a computer.
Also I know more than a handful of disenchanted post-iphone users who are now android fans due to Apple pushing iPhone updates to older phones which bog them down and make them crash. I don't know if Apple is doing the same thing to iPods.
Should I be afraid to plug my iPod into my computer? Is there any real danger of all my old songs being erased? If, so, is there any workaround? Should I be afraid of iTunes pushing a crippling update to my iPod? If so, is just safe enough if I just unplug the internet while the iPod is plugged in?