Near Ipod Crisis!

All Around The World by Keith & Kristyn Getty  
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Who knows why things suddenly wink out and go wrong on you when you've done nothing it seems, to cause them to?

I had just made some more great video of our little Cooper - my great-nephew, and I'm putting it all up on Facebook if my computer, connection and Facebook all cooperate. Anyway, I was going to show some of it off to my sis and my parents yesterday afternoon right after shooting it. But then something annoying happened.

My Ipod external speaker stopped working.

I figured it was just the battery dying, but even that didn't make much sense since I could still turn the Ipod on and off. With a battery near death, you can't do that - it just runs down for several seconds and then dies.

So, I recharged it anyway, and then tried to review some video after I had a good sleep and the Ipod would've had plenty of time to charge up.

Nothing! The light came on and all that, but there was no sound, not even the clicker.

Wha???

I plugged in the headphones.

Oh, good, the internal speaker still worked, I could hear through the headphones.

But shucks, I need that external speaker for times I haven't got my headphones on and just want to shoot video!

So, I went online to try and find out how to fix this.

Mostly there were articles about external speaker problems on the I-touch or the Iphone (I-touch I believe I'll be getting at some point in the future if the next gen comes out with a camera as well as all it has now and more) and something about a 5th gen Ipod nano external speaker that plays even when the headphones are plugged in.

That wasn't my problem, but the solution that was suggested, "restore Ipod to factory settings" was well worth considering.

But that meant I needed to back up a copy of my videos folder and put it back on either this Ipod or another one if worse came to worse and I'd have to get a new one. And that is something I REALLY don't want to be doing, not with looking at getting an Ipad and maybe eventually an I-touch, and a better digital piano keyboard, something else I need to upgrade because of the extensive practicing I'm going to be doing during my time off.

So, I moved that video folder to my main computer, which is getting ridiculously crowded with stuff and I'm getting warnings about that as well - argh!

Then I did a restore on my Ipod.

Once that was done, I exited Itunes, and heard my Ipod say "Ipod. Music."

YES!

It wasn't broken after all, it just decided for some weird reason not to play through the external speaker!

All is right once again, and I hope this glitch does not happen in the future!

Hehe!

So, more videos soon on the way, including Cooper playing chasies and saying "I bumped my noodle!" It's the first thing you'll hear on that particular video.

There's another one where he tries to get this top-heavy little doll thing to sit up, and laughs because it keeps falling over.

There's another video where he pulls a really pouty face.

I've got one more of dance class too, when Krista was subbing for Shana on Saturday, and she had the class do what she calls "Paint the Floor" where they do a number of steps across and around the room, giving their feet a workout. She used this really neat Celtic music from her Ipod for that.

I can't record any more of my playing for dance untill I make a new stand for the Ipod to prop it upright, the last one broke in two, thankfully not while the Ipod was in it. It fell apart in my hand, actually.

Okay, so much for my Ipod almost misadventure, at least all's well that ends well, and maybe I'll have something interesting and out of the ordinary to write about again soon.

Until next time!

Capri

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