Due to my crazy schedule recently, I've not really had time to blog about my wonderful toy called the iPod Touch. All has been well since I got it last November until I upgraded to firmware 1.1.3. Before the upgrade, I had a boat-load of content on my Touch that played crash/skip free. After the upgrade, every movie on my Touch would crash and ironically, all music on the device that I purchased from iTunes would crash as well. Since upgrading to 1.1.3 was no picnic and my content all the sudden was worthless, I started to feel like I had wasted $399 plus tax. That is when I went on my Google tour to find a solution.

Google had been treating me fine but as usual with these search terms, false positives were everywhere. I decided to post a thread on the Apple Discussion Site and before I got an actual answer, or even guess, to my problem, I found what may be the solution. While googling, I had found some random threads about this being a Vista issue. While not a Microsoft fan, other than the XBox 360, I didn't believe these threads. The problem is that I felt like I had tried everything so I decided to give this Vista-caused issue a test.

What I did was I took the same problematic content from my Vista box to my PowerBook, synced to my iPod Touch via iTunes and to my amazement, all content played flawlessly. All the sudden I felt this sense of joy come over me since now my $399 plus tax Touch was great again. Sure the Application Pack released in January made these problems seem more like hiccups but now, the device was as it should be. I'm not sure if this is some anomaly or if it is in fact an iTunes on Vista issue. I just know that I now have working content on my iPod Touch and this might fix someone else's problems too.

P.S. - If this is an iTunes on Vista issue, I hope that Apple fixes it sooner rather than later. I do have to admit that this juggling of content is quite the pain.