My itunes library music is gone except for items purchased. How can I restore my music?

My itunes cloud library only has music has only the music I purchased and none of my downloaded CDs which have been there for the past year. How do I restore my library?

See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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Hello! I have one iTunes library on my iPod and one iTunes library on my computer. When I connect my iPod touch to my PC, however, I cannot find any files in my iPod except for pictures. How can I find the music files so I can add them to my iTunes?

Hello! I have one iTunes library on my iPod and one iTunes library on my computer. When I connect my iPod touch to my PC, however, I cannot find any files in my iPod except for pictures. How can I find the music files so I can add them to my iTunes?

You can't do that.
And before you decide to store any music that you own on a computer at work, talk to your IT department. Many organizations do not permit it for legal reasons. Standard policies are that anything stored on company owned computers is the property of the company. It could not be legally stored on their machines unless you transfer the licenses and all copies, physical and digital, to the company, meaning you no longer own the music. If they were to be audited and could not prove that they own the music, they would be subject to copyright violation penalties. Just use your iPod when you're at the office if you want to listen to music.

So I plugged my iPhone 4s into my computer to charge it and when it was done charging I fallowed all the steps to unplug it. However when I went into my music all my music was gone except for my purchased music and all of my ringtones were were gone too?

So I plugged my iPhone 4s into my computer to charge it and when it was done charging I fallowed all the steps to unplug it. However when I went into my music all my music was gone except for my purchased music and all of my ringtones were were gone too?

I have it set on manually manage music and videos. So there is no automatic syncing going on or anything like that. Yes iTunes was open and when i plugged in my phone i could see all the music and everything on my phone, everything was working like it was supposed to, I didn't have a problem until I unplugged the phone.

HT1349 My itunes library file is locked, on a locked disk, how can I unlock them?

My itunes library files are locked, on a locked disc, how can I unlock them?

Huh?
Your iTunes library is on your home computer. That is strictly under control of someone in your house.
Your iTunes account, which can be accessed with your Apple ID and password can be disabled by Apple. Is this what you mean?

I recently synced my iphone 5s to itunes. It erased my photos and I can not locate them on itunes. They are nowhere to be found. How can I restore them back to my phone?

I recently synced my iphone 5s to itunes. It erased my photos and I can not locate them on itunes. They are nowhere to be found. How can I restore them back to my phone?

Restore them from where?
The pic sync is one way - computer to iPhone.
You should be storing all of your photos on your computer. Jut sync them to your iPhone.

I have several versions of itunes on my computer and hard drive. My itunes library has become mixed up with my husbands how can i fix this?

I have several versions of itunes on my computer and hard drive. Now my itunes library has become mixed up with my husbands how do I resolve?

assuming the copy files ... when adding option is checkmarked in preferences > advanced, drag the folder into an open iTunes window while holding option (⌥).

My *entire library* is suddenly gone except for one recently imported music bundle.

a week ago i loaded/imported a large folder of music (gift with an e-book purchase) to my itunes music library. that went fine, but this morning i wanted to sync my ipod touch with itunes, and that recently imported content is *all that is there*. all of my other content is still in its subfolders of my itunes library on my hard drive, but itunes can't see it. the folder that it does see is parallel in the directory tree with everything else. the only other thing that happened, is my credit card expired and i am about to enter the new expiration date now. but all of my paid content *is paid for*, so i don't see why that would matter.
and of course, all of my podcast subscriptions and playlists have been wiped. AGAIN. itunes eats itself and my podcast subscriptions several times a year, but this is different. in the past it has just decided it didn't recognize my ipod, and wiped the device. i've also had it randomly decide that it didn't know i was subscribed to any podcasts. this seems to be different. i hadn't sync'ed in over a month, and it's just not 'seeing' content of folders that are already there. what's killing me, is that the podcasts are a *huge* hemorrhoid to restore. i subscribe to a lot of them, and they are all free, yet itunes routinely flags my device as a content thief and cleans them off entirely. this. should. not. be. this. hard.
no way am i connecting my ipod to this thing until it's fixed. anyone ever have this happen? any ideas how i can make it right? any ideas what *happened*, and and how i might prevent it happening again?
i would really rather not have to manually re-import all of those folders that i had already imported to itunes; and the podcast situation is untenable, because not only do i have to re-subscribe to everything -- i have to re-figure out which episodes i have and have not heard. i sometimes get a little bit behind on listening, and at the moment i am very far behind indeed. recovering them to where i left off *always* *****. not to mention the audible audiobook i'm in the middle of.
i've had my ipod touch since 2008.

What i would do (i'm not an expert) is make sure your library is definitely gone then go to Music/iTunes/Previous Itunes Libraries and copy the most recent iTunes library file (Ex. Itunes Library 2012-11-30.itl) and then go back to Music/Itunes and replace "iTunes Library.itl" with the one you copied (rename iTunes Library 2012-?-?.itl to iTunes Lirary.itl)

I lost my iTunes library on a crashed external hard drive. How can I import music from my iPod that was not originally purchased on iTunes?

The 500 gig hard drive on my 2008 iMac was so full it was running very slowly, so I transferred the iTunes library to an old external Maxtor 1T drive. A few months later the Maxtor crashed, and the library went with it. My 3rd G. iPod Touch still has the whole library on it, but I don't know if ALL the music will transfer back to the mac when the iPod syncs. A portion of the music was from CDs we borrowed from our kids. How can I get all of the music that is presently on my iPod to transfer back to a new iTunes v. 11.1.2 library on the mac?

One application that's able to accomplish what you want is called Senuti.
http://senuti.en.softonic.com/mac.
I've used it many times to recover music from my iPod to iTunes.

My hard drive crashed and all my songs are gone except on my ipod. how can i get them back on my itunes librarary

How can I load my songs from my ipod to my computer since my hard drive crashed and my librarary on my itues account wasn't carried over?

Recover media from iPod
See this post from forum regular Zevoneer for options on moving your iPod data back to your computer.
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My iTunes library is on a PC, includes items purchases from Apple but a lot that are not. Can I sync the entire library (Apple purchases and others) with my iPAD and how?

My itunes library is on my PC. It has Apple purchased and other music. Can I sync everything with my iPAD and how? I'm having difficulties getting the "non-Apple" music sync'd.

You should be able to sync them from your computer's iTunes to your iPad and/or iPhone. Connect your iPad or iPhone to your computer and select it on the left-hand sidebar of your computer's iTunes (you can enable the sidebar via control-S on a PC), and then use the Music tab on the right-hand side of the iTunes to select and sync the music that you want in the iPad/iPhone's Music app
Syncing media : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1351

My computer where my itunes library is stored is no longer accessible. how can i add songs to my ipod nano without losing the songs already on it.

The computer where i have my itunes library is no longer accessible. How can I add new songs to my Ipod nano without losing the song already on it?

You will need that library copied from the old computer. If not, then you can take a look at this in getting 3rd party software to recover your library from the iPod. Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive

ITunes crash by loading the apps for my iPhone, how can i fix this?

Hey Community
i have a big problem. I will load my apps on my iPhone, but everytime if I will open Apps in the iTunes menu from my iPhone iTunes crash.
So I have updated iTunes, but it still crash again and again. I need help, I don't want to load all my apps trough my phone with AppleStore.
Best regards

The best way to do it is to copy your iTunes library (or a backup of it) from your old computer to your new one. Make sure iTunes on the new computer is Authorized to the same account you had on the old computer and the iPhone. Then it should sync correctly. As al alternative see this user tip: Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive

HT1338 upon updating itunes programs I lost the "burn" CD feature. How can I restore it?

Upon updating my itures program I lost the "burn" CD feature. How can I get it back?

iTunes 11 still burns cd's
Select the playlist of your songs and File > Burn Playlist

TS1538 I got a virus on my computer and just reinstalled itunes but it does not recognize my device. aLSO, how can I restore my itunes and all my songs.

giot a vorus and cannot get itunes to recognize my device now even after reinstalling program

The music sync is one way - computer to ipod. The exception is itunes purchases. Without syncing: File>Transfer Purchases.
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer for just such an occasion.
Use your backup copy to put everything back.

I'm being charged TWICE for one purchase, how can I get my money back for that second charge?

I bought an album and two songs which added up to about $13 and I went to check my credit card account and saw that itunes is charging me twice for that same thing along with an extra $1 for something else. One of the transactions is on 11/05/11 while the other one is on 11/07/11 and I only bought the album and songs once and I haven't bought anything else since then. I emailed them about it and they think it's an unauthorized purchase when it isn't I know that I bought the songs but they're charging me twice for that one thing. I've called them and they all said that I have to go to the customer services and that's didn't help so what do I do to get my money back?
This also happened before where they charged me twice but it was just 2 bucks so it was a big deal but this time it's almost $14 and I want that money back.

Here's a link to a procedure:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5590751_refund-itunes.html

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