So today I got my iPod and SG-1 Season 8! I have renewed faith in Federal Express... the iPod was waiting for me as soon as I got up. (UPS followed about 10 minutes later.)

First, Stargate... I believe my copy of Threads is the much sought after long version. I don't think I'll have to exchange! All the other episodes are about 45 minutes long (00:43:36, to be exact) and Threads is 01:05:37 long. Yippee! I'll have to compare it to the one I recorded, though.

Next, the iPod! 60 gigabytes of musical goodness. It took me several hours getting the thing set up, because a silly plugin called "Multi-Plugin" (that I used to get my Inspiron's media control macro buttons to control iTunes) kept crashing for some random reason. 500 songs into the transfer and BAM! iTunes crashes. At first, I thought it was because one of my albums is written in Japanese, so I managed to upload one album at a time, and, well... it worked. So okay, whatever. Then I noticed the album artwork wasn't showing up on the iPod's screen, so I went and cleared it all off and tried to put them back on. 35% of the way through, iTunes crashed AGAIN. So, okay... maybe it's the album art that crashes it. So I go and mass recompress all the cover images and retag the files with them, and retransfer all the files. CRASH! This time, however, I decided to see if the crash message had anything useful in the debug information and...................................... yup, it did. The problem was occuring in DLL "multi-plugin.dll". So I uninstalled that dude and retransferred everything AGAIN and, tada! Works perfectly now.

After that, I experimented with encoding video for it. It went smoother than most of my experiments. I was able to locate a free program called Videora iPod Converter that quickly and easily turns just about any video into an iPod video. It's not the most streamlined program ever, but it works. I was able to transcode a Simpsons episode and watch it, heehee.

Next on my list is to figure out how to synchronize notes, contacts and calendar entries.

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 29th, 2005 at 9:55 pm and is filed under General.