When you have a lot of music like I do, loading up all the shit you want on your iPod is a time-consuming activity. Doesn't matter how fast your transfer rate is, the simple fact is that it's insanely annoying. Well, I had the misfortune of having to reload my iPod Touch last week.
The problem was my videos. They weren't showing up on the screen when I pressed the video button. The screen would just go white for a few seconds and then crash to home screen. I looked up the problem online and it seemed a lot of other people had this exact same problem, yet Apple itself hasn't been able to figure it out.
Well, I figured it out.
It seems the more stuff you have on your iPod Touch, the longer it takes to access the list of videos and display said list on the screen. After I completely wiped my iPod, I added back my videos first just to see if they would load. They did without a hitch. However, once I started adding on more and more songs (in the thousands, people), it was taking longer and longer to cough up the videos until I was basically back to where I had been pre-wipe. Only difference was this time I didn't re-add the shitloads of apps I had also had on there so instead of always crashing back to the home screen, it now just took three or four attempts to get the video list to load.
It's still annoying as piss and shouldn't be a problem at all. Especially when I have the 64 gigger. There's tons of space left open and why the damn thing struggles to load 29 videos up and doesn't bat an eye at loading thousands of songs is perplexing.
But on top of that, the time it took me to put all those tunes back on was scattered across three frickin' days. I'm still tinkering with it, too, by putting back album art and the like that iTunes cannot seem to find, even though some of those things I bought straight from it. Go figure.
