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itunes will not update/sync ipod shuffle (1st or 2nd gen).

Hello -- I've seen a few postings with similar issues, but no answers that work yet, so I'm hoping someone may be able to help.

Recently, I can not get itunes to sync or update either my 1st or 2nd gen shuffle. itunes sees it and diagnostics says everything is fine (although the diag program takes 5-7 mins to run). Non-shuffle ipods work fine on the same USB port. Also, the shuffles work fine on other computers.

I have deinstalled/reinstalled itunes, as well as the USB driver. I downloaded the reset utility for both shuffles and run. No difference after any of these efforts.

The problem is the same for autofill or drag/drop. itunes says not to disconnect the ipod as it's sync'ing and the little sync symbol appears next to the shuffle, but itunes just locks up ~5 mins. It returns w/o an error message, but nothing has been copied. It's the same whether I try to copy 1 or 100 songs.

Any help will be appreciated. I'll cross post in 1st gen discussion as well.

Thank you,

HP, Windows XP

Posted on May 15, 2009 7:18 PM

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Jun 4, 2009 11:28 AM in response to kurgut

None of the suggested fixes in the knowledge base article you referenced resolved this issue for me. Further, I cannot use the iPod Reset Utility to restore the iPod as it is not 64-bit OS compatible.

I have been unable to sync my iPod Shuffle 2nd Gen with iTunes since the release of 8.1.1.10. The new release 8.2.0.23 has not resolved the issue. Hopefully Apple will take notice of all the problems here on the forums and release either an iTunes or firmware patch to resolve these problems.

Message was edited by: Amp300

Jun 14, 2009 9:16 AM in response to 0Ari0

I must admit I am shocked that it seems there is such poor 64-bit support so long after Vista 64bit was released.

Hopefully Apple resolves these issues soon.

Finding someone else running a 32 bit OS to run a program is not an ideal workaround, though it's not something we need to do it's not an acceptable situation.

itunes will not update/sync ipod shuffle (1st or 2nd gen).

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