Today, it started acting very weirdly: I was playing songs, and between songs, he always decided to go for a 5 minutes break... and some times, he took this break right in the middle of the song.
I then decided to change of artist. It loaded the play-list fine, but somehow, the album art wasn't the good one. And of course, the music wouldn't start... ever!
So I plugged it into my PC, saw it wasn't detected, unplugged it... and then it kind of auto-formated itself: no more music. However, when I'd go under "Settings", I'd see "0 Kb free", and -all- the space was used by the category "Other" (there's also Game, Music, Films, etc.). I suspect it somehow decided to move all my music into a new folder or something, thus not considering it as music anymore, but simply as raw data.
Note: Even before it'd bug today, it'd show it had no space free. However, I can't remember if it was labelling the music as taking all the space. What I am sure, though, is that I only have 37 Gb worth of songs... so there's no way I could fill my 80 Gb.
The first time it had broken a bit similarly (without the space-usage weirdness), all I had to do was to connect my iPod, back-up all the files of the disc on my desktop, delete them from iPod's disc, and copy back my back-up. Somehow, it completely repaired the thing. This was years ago.
Second time, it'd not should the space-usage weirdness either, but it'd have some 1-minute-long breaks from times to times. All I had to do was plug my iPod, and format it disc. This happened some months ago. After this format, I left the iPod plugged in, put all my music back in it, and unplugged it. From there on, my iPod would never be recognized by my computer.
Now... well... I'm wondering how I could play within the disc if it isn't even detected by my computer! D:
I plug it in, and the only breach of hope I see is the fact that in the explorer, the disc "K:\" appears. However, (double-left or single-right) clicking it freezes the explorer. And usually, it should have a black iPod icon; as it is right now, it just shows the same icon as the other empty discs that my computer always detected for no reason (because none are plugged in... I believe): E, F, G, H, I.
I believe before my last format, the disc-letter associated to my iPod was "J".
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