Lots to read and learn, but his may help.

OK, In theory, my previous post sounded great, but in reality FAT32 must REALLY suck. Now all this could just be some kind of coincidence, freak phenomena that caused my iPod to not work well.
So I plugged my iPod into my room mates windows machine and used the iPod updater to restore the iPod. This formats the iPod for windows use, in FAT32,and updates (if needed) the iPod to the newest firmware revision. All went smoothly, took a little longer than I thought because his computer only has USB 1.1 not the high speed 2.0 that I’m used too. After […]
Source: newtonick

In other news, someone was heard asking where can I get a free mp3 player and it was pointed out it may be possible.