Thanks - I appreciate all of your trouble, and your explanations. I definitely had the USB setting on MSC. I couldn’t figure out WHERE to fill in the ID3 tags. I guess my podcasts all have them - in iTunes, I select Podcasts and there is a list of names of radio programs I’ve downloaded, and under each title a list of the shows with date, time, size, artist, album, genre (all “Podcast”), and, for all but “Fresh Air” and “Talk of the Nation” - category. When I got the Clip+, the 1st thing I did was download the owners’ manual. It’s not too specific about putting music into the player, and doesn’t mention any of the problems dealt with in the article linked by Tapeworm, below. (For which thanks, Tapeworm). So I just plugged it into my computer, opened Clip, opened iTunes, and dragged & dropped the programs I wanted from iTunes into the Clip’s Podcast folder. For the 1st 10 days or so, it worked fine - the player showed the title of each program - Not “The Dianne Rheem Show” or “Fresh Air”, but the abbreviated title of the particular episode, describing the topic of discussion. Then I realized that, though I’d been deleting each one as I listened to them, and confirming each deletion, they weren’t deleted - the shows I’d heard and (I thought) deleted were still in the player and coming up again; I deleted each one several more times, but never got rid of them. I know I was doing it correctly, exactly according to the directions. Then I went to play a group of shows that were on the player under the title “Unknown”. They were audio podcasts (MP3) of a TV show, “Real Time”. When I highlighted Unknown and pressed the R scroll, a list of the names of the episodes would show up, just like it had with the earlier shows. But now when I had the 1st one highlighted and pressed select or Right it started scrolling crazily through everything on the player, including all the shows I thought I’d deleted. None of the buttons would stop it right away, but after several pressings of all of them it would finally highlight “Back to Podcasts”. When I pressed select or Left or Right arrow, it would start the crazy scrolling again. When I plugged the player into the computer again, there were 3 duplicate lists of folders - the original, a 2nd one named Clip, and one named Clip II. All 3 had the list of radio shows I’d deleted repeatedly in the Podcasts folder, but there was no Real Time anywhere to be found. I deleted (on the computer) all the podcasts and the 2nd Clip and the Clip II and all the duplicate folders, and unplugged the player. It still showed all the Real Time episodes, and some other titles I didn’t recognize & never heard of. I took your advice and formatted it, and that did clear everything. I tried downloading KopyMac with the CNet link you sent me and with one to MacUpdate.com in the article Tapeworm linked below. Each one looked like it was starting to download, but then the window disappeared and a new one flashed open that just said “DNS Error”. I’ve tried downloading from both sites several times with the same result. I tried loading content into the Clip again, this time from Finder, instead of directly from iTunes, as described in the coexisting article. Everything looked fine, I had a list of podcasts in my Clip. But when I selected one to play, the same thing happened - it just start scrolling through the titles, really fast, and none of the buttons would stop it. So I formatted it again, packed everything up, got out my receipt, and hied myself off to Best Buy and got a refund. The clerk didn’t seem at all fazed by my description of it’s behaviour. I guess he thought I was making it up. Any way, I guess I’ll start saving up for an iPod - my trusty old Palm Pilot is also on the fritz, and I need the scheduling and phone directory capabilities even more than its MP3 player. Plus we can use it for email and online banking & bill paying during a lengthy upcoming trip, instead of having to buy a laptop to take with us.
Thank you both for your time and for being so willing to share your knowledge and expertise.
Mike
