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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Spikes on February 10, 2009, 04:57:02 PM
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Opened up iTunes today and saw that I have no music/vids/podcasts/nothing. I tried opening the .lib file (itunes library). and it still shows nothing. I'm really unaware of what has happened, but EVERYTHING is now gone and I can't seem to get it back.
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I downloaded it on my old PC, saw how nasty of a resource hog it was. It was removed 10 minutes later.
I store mine on a 320GB WD Passport.
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Gah. Too bad iTouch can't be used like a regular MP3 player. Copy songs on and off, etc. I like it, but I am really mind boggles and quite PO'd that this happened.
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If someone else plugged their iPod into your computer you are screwed.
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If someone else plugged their iPod into your computer you are screwed.
What happens? :confused:
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What happens? :confused:
Each instance of iTunes will only sync to one iPod. If you plug another iPod into your computer and you have it set to automatically sync, your entire library will be deleted. It's their way of cutting down on file sharing.
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yup...
when you connect your ipod, go into its options menu and make sure "manually manage songs" is selected
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Or dont buy ipods
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That's dumb... Hell there should be a law against doing that. :furious Some kind of programming ethics violation or something :)
A warning saying 'sorry operation is not allowed' should be enough....
Delete my files, I'd be pissed
geeesh
:(
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winamp + plugin http://mlipod.sourceforge.net/
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It's really too bad when you have to go searching around the intardnet to find an illegal hack just to make your MP3 player work like it should have in the first place.
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It's really too bad you didn't look at other MP3 players that don't have these DRM issues.
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It's really too bad when you have to go searching around the intardnet to find an illegal hack just to make your MP3 player work like it should have in the first place.
Agree. 90% of the almost 100GB of Music I have on my portable HD, are rips from my own CD collection. They are not shared on the Internet and never will be.
I forgot about the One iPod thing. I'd bank on that is exactly what happened.
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It's really too bad you didn't look at other MP3 players that don't have these DRM issues.
the price, ease of use and storage size is very competitive.
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yup...
when you connect your ipod, go into its options menu and make sure "manually manage songs" is selected
I already did that, then I can just drag songs BACK into my library?
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I already did that, then I can just drag songs BACK into my library?
At least iphone lets u sync songs that are downloaded straight in it to itunes
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When was the last time you backed up your music library? You should be able to go in there and get it (If you have backed it up of course :))
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Here is something else you can look into...
when you put songs in itunes, it makes a copy of the songs in an "itunes" folder located in your "my music" folder
If you have XP, go to Start > My Music > iTunes > iTunes Music.
If your songs have not been deleted off your computer, they would be in this "iTunes Music" folder.
The files should have the Title of the Artist. Inside that, The title of the album, then the song.m4p/.m4a inside that.
If they are still there, open up iTunes and go to File > Import. Open up the Artist and album you want, select the song, and hit import. The song should now be back into your itunes library.
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When was the last time you backed up your music library? You should be able to go in there and get it (If you have backed it up of course :))
I tried putting the backup in play, but the file is only 63kb. Normally it would be well over that, so I know that there are no songs in the backup.
Here is something else you can look into...
when you put songs in itunes, it makes a copy of the songs in an "itunes" folder located in your "my music" folder
If you have XP, go to Start > My Music > iTunes > iTunes Music.
If your songs have not been deleted off your computer, they would be in this "iTunes Music" folder.
The files should have the Title of the Artist. Inside that, The title of the album, then the song.m4p/.m4a inside that.
If they are still there, open up iTunes and go to File > Import. Open up the Artist and album you want, select the song, and hit import. The song should now be back into your itunes library.
Problem with that is, only about 1/4 of all my songs are in the itunes Music folder.
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the price, ease of use and storage size is very competitive.
Price? Maybe, you do have to pay Apple's premium. Ease of use? Yes and no, their DRM garbage is a big turn off for me. Storage size for hard drive based one are good. For their flash based models....not so much.
Creative and Samsung make fine products as well.
/apple hater :D