How would I know if it successfully finished indexing all the songs ? I have over 1500 songs. It works fine one day and the next it doesn't. After a reboot , it works again... Weird.
It just happened to me again. A quick fix was to hold the home button and the top right lock button until it powers off. Once it comes back on, it should work again. Well I hope it does ...
I had something else written here for a few seconds until it occurred to me you were talking about the iPod and not the car stereo. I have a nano, so I'll have to figure out how to do a hard reset on that. Either way, hopefully a more permanent solution will be found.
On the wife's Caddy, there was a little circle which kept spinning while indexing. 5000+ songs and about 30 minutes later, it was finished indexing for the first time. Since then, it indexes in a minute or so when it is plugged in again.
Okay, maybe it was 45 minutes the first time instead of 30...
If I remember well, my wife's started playing the first song immediately, but the indexing wheel kept spinning for a long time. Although it would play while indexing, you could not do a song search to skip to something else; for example, you could not get it to respond to "Play Kenny Chesney - Somewhere With You" until it was finished.
