iPOD 3rd gen sync but music not showing

[Minion]

Hi everyone

Apologies in advance. I’m going to be slow. I’m recovering from a brain injury so this is tricky for me.

But I’m hoping to use my old iPod 3rd gen from 2004 and sync with musicbee.

I have replaced the battery and upgraded to 64GB flash drive.

It’s recognised on windows 10. Needed iTunes to put it’s OS onto the device. Shows the folder structure in windows explorer. Weirdly there was no music folder and MB kept saying it was missing. So I added that folder and it synchronised. Music on iPod. Only it doesn’t show up when I try to find the music under songs or the playlist.

Am I missing something? It’s clearly on the device. The device as I can see that on explorer.

Is it a folder structure problem? I tried putting a single song in the music folder but it still didn’t show on the iPod interface.

Please help!

[Minion]

OK so I’ve managed to get the music and playlist to show when synced to my MacBook Pro M1.

So it has to be something to do with the way Music Bee populates the iPod. Music app/finder has no problem communicating and uploading to the device.

Does MB need specific drivers for this to work?

It’s weird because MB sees it as an iPod. But it must be related to how and where it puts the music. Because the iPod does not go looking for music in the ‘Music’ subfolder, it has its own Apple hierarchy I guess.

[phred]

The short answer is that MB does not natively support Apple devices. There are some (older, but pinned) threads in the Tips & Tricks section on how to get some Apple devices to work with MB, but I'm not sure if that will work for you.

[voodoopunk]

Simplest way in my opinion is to use syncback, the plugged in iPod should give you a drive letter, just sync to the correct folders.

This works with my old iPod with Rockbox installed, don't see why it shouldn't work without.

I even do it with my Fiio player that holds my Musicbee library, no need to use Musicbee when syncing anything.