Brain-frying question about a troublesome iPod issue.....

[tanngrisnir3]

Here's the long and short of it:

A. iPod Nano.
B. After an update some softward versions ago, iTunes suddenly shat my music library away on a permanent basis, so I had songs on my iPod, but nothing on the computer in iTunes.
C. I was afraid of ANY change of a computer to iPod overwrite, but I solved this w/some freeware a few days ago called Sharepod. I got the 185 songs off the iPod and back into the music library in iTunes. So far so good. Made sure that it was switched over to manual mode and not auto sync.
D. So this morning, I threw some things away from the music library that I never listen to, to save space, and decided to auto sync the ipod to iTunes so now everythnig would be the same.
E. after all was said and done, it informed me that 100 songs could not be synced because of the wrong format to the iPod.
F. So now I've got 100 precious songs that I can't get from my iTunes to the pod, and they've been erased from the pod during the auto sync.

Q: how do I get them onto the pod? Reformatting them? If so, how?

Thanks,

T3

[bif]

1. What format are they?

[tanngrisnir3]

2. The ones that won't copy are all AAC format, but the odd thing is...

when I highlight a song that won't copy, the 'advanced' scroll down menu gives me the option of 'creat AAC version' and if I do that, the song will then copy.

This doesn't make any sense to me.

[bif]

3. I thought you could only put MP3

and m4a files on an iPod?

[tanngrisnir3]

4. Apparently not.

[crimsonblue]

5. Audio formats supported:

AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

[tanngrisnir3]

6. So do you have any idea why.....

They would have worked once on both the iPod and my iTunes and now will not transfer from the former back to the latter?

[crimsonblue]

7. Apple makes transfering from iPod to iTunes difficult for whatever reason

If iPod is not properly formatted to the type of computer you are using (i.e. you started using your iPod on a PC and switched to a Mac, or vice versa), then iTunes won't recognize your iPod. Also, deleting songs off of iTunes but leaving them on the iPod won't allow songs to transfer back to iTunes. You have to use specialty software to do that.