It's a 3rd gen, 15gig iPod. I just took 2 hours 20minutes to put 1,458 songs onto it. I've known people have around 4,000 songs and take alot less longer than that to update. It's the same no matter which USB port I plug it into. My comp's specs: Intel P4 1.6ghz 1024mb SD RAM Radeon 9600 Pro It's a 3-4 year old Dell. My friend has one about the same age and his updates 10times quicker. I got the newest version of iTunes (running Windows XP) and the newest iPod software. I got one of those Dock Connector to USB + FireWire cables and the iPod works perfectly as well as my computer. Anyone have any idea as to why it is updating so slowly? Thanks, Tyler
were you running any other programs at the time? though you do have plenty of ram... i'm at a loss...
I might know why.... Find out if the USB port on your computer is v.1.1 or v.2 There is a HUGE speed difference between the two of them. Seeing your computer is 3-4 years old, there´s every chance that you´ve got USB 1.1 USB 1.1 transfer rate = 12Mb/sec USB 2.0 transfer rate = 480Mb/sec That is of course theoretical maximum transfer rate.
I'd guess your USB port is USB 1.1 and your friend's is 2.0. Buy a USB card and it will be 2.0, and things will go faster...Assuming that this is your problem. EDIT: Beaten by Ívar, curse my slow connection!
Well, if yours is USB v1.1 instead of 2.0 or something, there can be a signifigant difference in the time it'll take for the transfer of songs to occur. Also, in some system's BIOS, you can select your USB to be fullspeed or HIspeed. I'd say go into yours and see if it has that option, and see which is selected. HIspeed is 40X faster than fullspeed. Lastly, the same thing happened to my 3rd Gen 10GB iPod... after a couple of weeks, the harddrive in it went bad. If you happen to be under warranty, or have the couple of bucks to have it checked out, I suggest that you do. If it's still under warranty they'll fix it for free... if not, you might as well expect to buy a new one (IIRC it was a $100 parts + labor to fix). And no, there's no real alternative to it, even though there's a few places out there that will put a new drive in, it'll be ~$100 at least. I hope it's not that though, and that you get whatever's wrong solved quickly . -Ray Edit: lets see how many people say the 1.1 vs 2.0 thing, eh?
How exactly do you check to see if its a 1.1 or 2.0? I'm going to try out that BIOS thing you recommend. The iPod actually has always done this since I got it, I just today had nothing else to do when updating it so I got really annoyed and frustrated. I wouldn't think that the harddrive on it is bad at all because it runs perfectly fine and doesn't hang up at all when I'm using it. My friend said he might have a 2.0 USB that I could use if in fact it is a 1.1 that I have (which is might be from the sounds of it).
I just got a USB 2.0/Firewire PCI Card off of eBay, so now I can take 20minutes to update my iPod instead of 2 hours 20minutes. Thanks for helping me figure out the problem -Tyler
Tyler, what OS are you running? IIRC only XP supports USB 2.0 My desktop has 2.0 hardware but since I was running Win2K, it only operated as 1.1