Fix For Sluggish 5G iPod Interface

The reason for duplicate artist entries is in fact not a bug, I suggest you actually check the artist names in the ID3 tag and rename them, you will most likely find one has a couple spaces attached to the end of it :)

The fix worked great, Thanks! I agree that the 5G's seem a bit buggy though. Sometimes I'll update the iPod only to find that some album art has mysteriously vanished. Other times it will list multiple instances of a band even though there is no difference in spelling, etc. It seems like apple is getting a bit sloppy...

this didn't help...any other solutions or ideas?

I Bought The New iPod "5th Generation" A While Ago. I Noticed 2 Flaws So Far. 1. It Scratches Too Easy 2. My Album Art Work Wont Show Up For Some Reason Even Though Its On Display Album Artwork On iPOd Prefrences For Problem #1 You Can Use Brasso, Its Something That You Can Find Near The Soaps & Sink Cleaners At Wal Mart If You Can Help Me On #2 Pleae Do. Thanx!

10: the thing with the clickers while turned off was also in my 3d gen ipod. dont think it's a software thing

I wanna try this for my nano ...

Guys - this has been a great help. I was just cursing out my iPod for being so slow. On a related note re: iPod 5G bugs - check this out. I've let Apple know, but if you'd all like to also submit bug reports, we can make sure we get these fixed for the next firmware release. 1. iPod 5G artist listing bug Environment: Bug occurs when an 'Artist' has songs attributed to only 1 album *and* you have tracks for that artist that are not associated to any album (album ID3 tag is blank). Problem: When you browse to Artist, and select the artist, it jumps straight to the album listing of the 1 album you have, not allowing you to browse 'All' to see songs that are not connected to any album. The songs are definitely on the iPod though, as they are listed in the 'Songs' area. Desired behavior is for 'All' to list all tracks, both on albums and not. 2. Artist 'All' view song order bug Environment: When you have an artist that has many albums of content, all with songs. Problem: Go to an artist you have lots of albums for, then choose 'All' instead of an album. The tracks are ordered alpha *by album* (with the album details not shown, just the song names, obviously). The songs are not listed by alpha irrespective of album. How on earth are you supposed to find anything on this list? This has to be a bug. Expected behaviour should be that if I browse to an album, I want to see the tracks ordered by track listing, and if no track listing ID3 info, by alpha instead. However, when I go to 'All', I'd expect an alpha ordering (unless shuffle was on, of course!).

Hello all..I'm not trying to flood this messageboard with off-topic posts, but I was curious if anyone else has noticed some flaws in the new ipod with video. I have been playing with mine for about a week now and have really been annoyed with a few things. ONE: notice how, once you enter an artists album listing and then back out to the main artist menu list it still lists the artists name in the menu heading instead of 'artists' as it should. and... TWO: When you power-down your ipod 5g you can rotate your thumb around the click-wheel and still hear the audible clicker sounds...which means the touch pad is still powered even after you turn off the device...maybe greatly reducing battery life? I tried to go to the apple store in indianapolis and they were going to exchange it until we discovered the quirks were in every single 5g that they had on display...even one of the store clerks. Has anyone else experienced some of these bugs? PLEASE SOMEONE ADDRESS THIS!!! I'm hoping it'll somehow be corrected with an update or something, but yeah...very annoying

doing it again didnt work... and restarting fresh... well, i dont even want to deal with that right now.

Just did this on my 5G, which is set to manual updating, and I didn't have to wipe the library. The newest iTunes still updated the images without having autosyncing activated.