How do you update your Ipod without iTunes?

Ketil · Post by **Ketil** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:57 am

Since you love your Monkey and wouldn't let iTunes even near your machine

, how do you upgrade your firmware?

Bex · Post by **Bex** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:06 am

I don't have an iPod but as I understand it, you must use iTunes for firmware upgrades.

gege · Post by **gege** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:23 am

Mine came with the latest firmware already, so I never faced this problem...

Big_Berny · Post by **Big_Berny** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:15 am

Why not let iTunes on the machine? I doesnt hurt. Just use it for firmware updates.

daelin73 · Post by **daelin73** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:01 am

Ketil wrote:Since you love your Monkey and wouldn't let iTunes even near your machine , how do you upgrade your firmware?

I use iTunes for videos (because I watch so many) and for firmware upgrades. The iPod is set to Manual sync which is how I'm able to do that.

For music, I switched back after the horrible quality I was getting from the AAC files I encoded on it compared to the MP3s from MM3.

Lauren

karimleo · Post by **karimleo** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:37 am

I have ITunes installed on my old computer which runs at a snail pace and I don't use.

I don't even have a monitor for it and it won't work with my current monitors because it is VGA and my new ones are DVI. So I VNC it with my new computer.

When I hear of a firmware upgrade I drag the old boy out of retirement, plug it into my network router, access it via RealVNC, plug in my iPod and do the necessary updating.

Works a charm and my main computer doesn't have to have iTunes installed.

Hope this helps

megal_1 · Post by **megal_1** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:33 pm

ipod without itunes is good gadget.

oldtimer · Post by **oldtimer** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:48 pm

I don't watch videos so I never updated my software. I hear horror stories of bad versions that wiped out ipods. At least ipods can be restored. There was a real bad Zune version that trashed the Zunes if you did something wrong.

I say if it is not broke why fix it?

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