iPod Classic and Catalina
I have a perfectly good iPod Classic that I had not used in some time because I have an iPhone and played my music from it. Today I was working again in my shop where I have always used my iPod Classic to play music through an amplifier. I had not updated the music on the device for some time so I decided to do that. I recently updated my MacBook Pro to Catalina. I have sync'ed my iPhone successfully using the new Finder scheme. Unfortunately, that is not working for my iPod.
I did as others have suggested and "Restored" my iPod to factory settings. That seemed to work. However, nothing I do can seem to cause a sync to the iPod. There are no entries in the list for music at all in the Finder pane but I assumed that would be filled in as the Sync progressed. I selected Apply and then Sync. Initially, the iPod shows the sync rotating arrows but then quickly (10 seconds) stops. It appears that it cannot locate any music.
After enduring this behavior for some time, I again went through the Restore process. Same result.
What is going on? Has anyone got any answers?