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[Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide] Our fellow editor at the naughty Fleshbot suffered a catastrophic hard drive crash that killed every file in sight, and needs our help piecing things together. Dashiell writes: So I lost my entire iTunes music library (not just the library file, but the actual music.) However, I still have my iPod.
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[Mcelhearn.com] Kirkville - The Ultimate iPod & iTunes Book!: Author Kirk McElhearn is the grand host of the iPod & iTunes coming-out party. ... (more eclectic) iTunes Library which is on the boot drive of my desktop ...
[Onedigitallife.com] one digital life » Blog Archive » Using iTunes to backup your music: I have 30GB iTunes…recently i switched to a different computer and reinstall the software for the Ipod…all of my existing songs are showing when i plug the ipod in, but then i cannot add anymore songs unless i have to delete every single songs i have…how can i prevent this? i don’t want to restart this whole process again…Please help.
[Playlistmag.com] Playlist: Libraries turning to iPods and iTunes: Since a track must be authorized in order to play on a computer, even if a member circumvents an iPod’s protections and copies a track to his or her hard drive, that track will not be playable. The library will not circulate more copies of a track than it owns—for example if it owns two copies of David McCullough’s 1776 it will make sure that no more than two go out on iPods—and it requires members who check books out on their own iPods to bring those devices back in to show that the track has been deleted, or have the library delete it for them.
[Foodisworse.typepad.com] Hacking iPod + iTunes: You probably already know that last week Apple released iTunes 4.8. When you use iTunes 4.8 to sync with your iPod, an interesting thing happens: the filenames of your music files get squished into incomprehensibility on the iPod (they're not changed on your computer).
[Blog.jillesvangurp.com] blog.jillesvangurp.com » Blog Archive » New PC & moving itunes library: The crucial step is letting iTunes create an empty library by starting it just once after the installation. After that you copy your own files to the directory that it created (there should be a new itl and xml file there already, which you replace by your own versions) and corrupt the itl.
[Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide] Call for Help: Rebuild a lost iTunes library... : I do know that iTunes writes certain metadata - like artist, title and album - into the actual song file, so importing the copied songs into iTunes should restore that info. But I believe ratings, last played date, and number times played, which is stored in the library xml file, will be lost.
[the Daily Irrelevant] DRM can bite my ass: it decided that, as a part of automatically updating the iPod (why was snooty auto-updating wee if wee is married to shiny?) it would delete the MP3s that were not a part of snooty’s music library. Despite the fact that they’re not AAC files and had no DRM of any kind.
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Posted at July 11, 2006 01:57 AM
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