Some iPods not Working on the Xbox 360 Anymore? Posted by XanTium | November 26 00:33 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From xbox360fanboy.com: [QUOTE] Word handed done from a few iPod owners is that Apple's latest firmware update has rendered iPod playback on the 360 iffy. Tony sent us a tip stating that his 5G iPod is no longer recognized by his 360 after updating the firmware on his iPod. We've also heard from various iPod / 360 owners that, for some reason or another, their iPods either never worked (in the case of the the iPod Touch) or just quit working (2GB iPod Nano). [/QUOTE] Full Story: xbox360fanboy.com

Apple on that BS i see.

Them are just some rotten apples.

"word handed done"? I'm not going to bother

I think this is the same problem gtk-pod went through, not a big deal

The reason the ipods wont work anymore with the 360 is because apple removed the disk mode from ipods so they cant be read by anything but itunes. Even when you plug your ipod in it wont come up on the desktop/ My Computer.

The only way i know how to force the ipod into disk mode is by using the terminal through mac to run a couple of files to access disk mode.

iphone shows my images, but doesn't even recognize as a device for music.

Problem: Apple related devices no longer working properly on the Xbox 360

Solution: Stop using Apple related devices

what he said

O NOOOOO,

wait there are currently at least 10 other ways to easily stream music to your 360.

That's quite fucking rediculous

i can't believe that apple would remove "disk mode" since some people like to transfer document files on their ipod devices like a USB flash drive - but than again apple likes to keep thing proprietary...there are still many 3rd party apps that can enable disk mode on the pc.

playing music on the 360 should not have anything to do with disk mode though...

i will try my iphone when i get home from work and see what happens...it has the "newer" 1.1.2 update...

You have got to be fucking kidding. I use my ipod as a storage device nearly as much as i use it for music. I use it to backup my files, and get things off friends. I highly doubt they have removed disk mode, especially since they have just released the 160gig ipod and claimed how good it is for storing files. And if they have, that is the stupidest fucking move in the history of apple and i am extremely pissed off. Im just gonna wait to see if this is confirmed before i update. It doesnt sound right.



Thats probably how it works. Winamp works that way from what i know. It just needs to find the database file on the ipod and then it knows what filename is what song. I beleive thats how it works.

Strange. My classic (latest firmware) is showing up in Explorer as a disk, even when I didn't choose to have it running in disk mode. My guess is apple changed the database structure slightly with the latest fixes and everyone has to play catch-up.

Its not the devices but how iTunes is writing the playlists to the ipod. Downgrading to iTunes7.2 will fix the problem. iTunes 7.2 can be found here.

http://oldapps.com/itunes.htm

When my ipod started showing up as an Audiobook device I knew something was up. Downgrading corrected my problem.

So thats why my 2G nano doesnt work!!

If you have a 2 gig nano whats the point of even hooking that up just stream your music. I have a 80 gig classic and it works great so all good here.

Nah i ment 2 generation.

If your using a version of iTunes greater than 7.2, then yep. =)

As for the newer apple devices such as the iPhone or the new iPod nanos I don't know. Older versions of iTunes may or may not work with those devices.






no kidding...

Fawk APPLE!...


Use Archos

Archos really doesn't offer anything like the new ipod nanos and zune2 flashs.

Looking at google and version history etc, i cant see anything about them removing disc mode. My guess is, as someone said, they must have slightly modified the databases on the ipods for their own reasons, or for this reason of stopping other things, like the 360, reading them.

Im still on itunes 7.4 i think. Havnt updated in a while and dont plan to. Waste of time. And now im even more inclined to not do it.

I usually only use my iPod when i go to friends houses. I've always streamed music from my PC for a few reasons. The main one is an external PMP that the 360 can recognize is still limited to 100 songs max in any play list. This sucks for long runs with games like Mass Effect and CoD 4 Multi Player. Meh it won't effect me too terribly in the mean time, I do hope M$ figures out an update for this.

I've started using my ipod again because about a month ago, my UPnP server stopped working. Used to be great, but i went to check it one day to play some music and it was gone. Have checked so many things and its just gone, wmp aint putting out. Im running vista.

Also, i just checked for updates to my ipod (5G) and it told me to get 1.2.3. I have looked around and cant find much info, so it looks like its brand spankin new. Maybe this 360 not working problem was a bug in 1.2.2 and 1.2.3 fixes it? Anyone got any info on this?

Sorry to dig up an old dead post, but I have spent hours on Google, and cant figure out how to get my 360 to recognise my Ipod again.

The Ipod still works on its own.
The Ipod still goes into diskmode...so thats not it.
The Ipod still works with my PC, as a disk, or using Itunes.
The 360 stll recognises my kids 1gig flash memory mp3 player.

360 doesnt recognise it at all when I plug it in while both are on.
If I power cycle the Ipod when it reboots it says its charging.


I reluctantly used a program called Ipodwizard to reflash the Ipods firmware back to 1.2.1 and everything seems to have worked there...but I really havnt a clue.... the Ipod says its version 1.2.1, but it also says it has 13 gigs left (what it has always said) even though I know theres only 9 gigs free.


I tried to install Itunes 7.2 like the guy on the first page of this post said, but that was a huge waste of time... to get it to even run, I had to uninstall, then go manually delete everything Itunes on my PC I could find. And now it will let me delete songs, but freezes when I try to add a song.

I have basicly tried everything on the Ipod except restore... and I really dont wanna do that.


Any Ideas would be appreciated.
Thx


Sorry for the wall of text in an old thread.

I was having this problem too, I found a post on another forum where someone said they did a "restore" on their ipod and it worked...

The restore option (on the summary page of the ipod in itunes) will delete ALL music, photos, videos... (everything) from your ipod.

I just tried it and... it worked