Comments on: The Simplest Fix for ‘iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPod’

By: qawasme

qawasme — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:19:16 +0000

thnx u r awesome

By: d.w.

d.w. — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:11:16 +0000

getting “itunes cannot read the contents of the ipod [ipod name]“? first close itunes. then search the ipod’s hard drive for “iTunesDB”. make a backup copy of iTunesDB and iTunesDB.old_mlpmp to your computer. now delete iTunesDB and rename iTunesDB.old_mlpmp to iTunesDB. now open itunes.

By: adam

adam — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:58:48 +0000

That’s it, I’m screwed. Hopeless. I’ve had this problem for months now, and now I’m running out of space on my iPod touch 2g. I’ve been downloading songs through MewSeek, and now I can’t delete them because stupid ITunes can’t read the contents of my iPod. I’ve tried everyone elses methods, still jack nothing. Unless there’s a way to delete songs directly off my iPod, I’m stuck with a completely full iPod with no space left. Someone please help.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:29:30 +0000

I tried Pinoy Ako’s solution, but it didn’t work. Message still pops up when I plugged my ipod back in. I’m really not sure what to do at this point. This isn’t my first ipod problem today. The first was that there was an error backing it up, so I couldn’t sync it completely, or install ios5. Then I tried it in my other computer which still has itunes installed and all my stuff, and it said it couldn’t read my ipod. So I came back to this computer, and now it says the same thing. I don’t know what to do!!! Can someone please help me?? This is the first time I’ve tried syncing my ipod to this new computer.

By: jmanjones

jmanjones — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:51:38 +0000

OK everyone I found what to do. I used iFile to delete iTunesDB and iTunesCDB. iTunes recognised my ipod like normal, BUT IT WON’T SHOW ANY OF MY MUSIC!!!

By: B.Playa

B.Playa — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:41:27 +0000

Will somebody PLEASE HELP me out before I go nuts!! Harold b, I tried to use your method but when I click on the iTunes folder in i-fun-box the whole program exits in a flash and leaves behind some random file which I cant open. I tried Coco’s method but my iPod is still not showing any of my music and videos. If I could sue Apple for this I would because they themselves don’t even know of such problem or have a damn solution. Grrrrrrr!!!!!!!! I’ve litteraly searched the entire internet for a solution and I’ve tried every one of them and none of them don’t work!! What the hell is up with technology these days!! This sucks Big time! *Pissed Off*

By: ace

ace — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:57:04 +0000

Tried Harold b’s idea, deleted the file, and nothing. With pinoy ako’s suggestion, I can’t find iTunes among the applications. SOMEONE HELP PLLZZZZ

By: adam

adam — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:13:02 +0000

i tries everything but atlast this worked!
Root Directory/user/media/iTunes_control/iTunes
delete the iTunesCDB file!

By: jailbroken ipodtouch

jailbroken ipodtouch — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:01:55 +0000

i tried everything, repair itunes delete itunesdb, noting!!

By: Randy P

Randy P — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:10:59 +0000

I followed up on “egg”‘s solution and it worked perfect! However, the file I found was ItunesCDB.