Can I backdate iTunes to iTunes 10? I use it only for my 18,000 song collection, and I hate the iTunes 11 configuration.
I have an iMac, version 10/68, My iTunes is, reluctantly, up-to-date. I use iTunes to organize my music, with over 100 playlists, all song rated, dated,commented on, and added to as many of the playlists as they ought to be heard in. I have no use for the album covers - I don't even keep them.
Can I re-enter an earlier iTunes version without losing my comments,dates, ratings, etc? I would like to randomize the order in which songs are played wittin their playlists and I don't waant to lose th I would much prefer this to the current tedious sytem today.
Thank you so much
PS A bit of Mac history on its birthday. II had one of the first 50 Macs sold in the Washington area and made good use of it the very first time I sat down to try it. It was very expensive, over $4000 and worth every penny. I was running the office of a group of people running for political office as a team. The artist we had hired to design political flyers for each of them did not do her job, and I was able, the first time I ever touched a Mac, to design and print 20-odd flyers, with no trouble at allI I was enchanted, and have never used anything other than a Mac ever since.
iTunes will always store the backups to the same drive or partition it is installed on. A couple things that might help:
-If you have multiple backups sitting there you can delete extraneous ones by opening itunes and click on the Edit menu and choosing Preferences. In the window that cames up click the Devices tab and delete the backups you don't need.
-Alternately you can move the backup files to a different location. Use this article to locate the backup files:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946
-If there is really not enough room on that drive, just uninstall itunes and reinstall it onto the larger drive. Make sure to follow the steps in this article if you uninstall:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1925
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All is in the title, so I repeat it below with a better identation.
What are the pros and cons of
1) choosing to use the SAME
Apple ID for iCloud services on one side, and
purchases on the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore, on the other side; or
2) to have and use two separate Apple Ids for these "two sides"?
P.S.
I have loads and loads of free podcasts in iTunes in my iMac, that are certainly more thant the 5 gigas the iCloud provides for free, so I don't want those to go to the cloud. But this is perhaps a different question...
Also need to mention that I have itunes on a mac, a pc and an iphone.
Sorry to look so silly with this question, but I don't get the "big picture".You need to create a user account for your wife (or yourself depending on who has the current user account). When syncing, each of you should sign in as a separate user, login to iTunes and then sync. I had this problem when my sister got an iPhone. When we did her initial sync, everything on my iPhone showed up on hers. Apple gave me this solution.
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Sometimes if I change the info for a song in itunes, it will show on my ipod that I never changed it. Its so frustrating because it unorganizes my music on my device. Someone Help!!! PLease!!
Since there were only 8 songs left on the iPod i could just do a 'hold and slide my finger' motion on the name of the song and there would be a delete option. Did that to all the songs and re-synced th ipod again to the computer, this time checking the 'sync music' box. It worked. I dont know if this is only available for iPod touch or for other iPod's as well
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How can i get thes songs from ipod nano to the itunes libary??
hi
i have ipod nano and i sync it with over 500 songs .....my bad i lose all that songs on my libary .... how can i get thes songs from ipod nano to the itunes libary??See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer on different ways to copy content from your iPod to your computer.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
B-rock -
I just got the new itunes and I can open itunes and see my music but whenI try and go to the itunes store it just loads to a white page. I try and refresh and go to the home page and nothing happens. I can sign into my account and the tabs for the itunes store pop up like they normally would when browsing the itunes store but when I click on one of them, it is a blank page. Is there a setting I need to change? Does it just take an extremely long time to load? Please help!!
Bucktr09:
I'm having the exact same problem. I upgraded to the newest version of iTunes on my iMac and ever since I did the store is a blank white screen. I can get my library content but the store is a no go. Is there any one out there with a solution? -
Hi there, can anyone please help? Download itunes and it says The Itunes library .itl file is locked, or on a locked disk or you do not have write permission for this file.
Holding down the shift key while iTunes is opening. That will bring up the 'choose iTunes library' dialog. Select 'Choose LIbrary' from the choices and navigate to your music folder and iTunes music folder.
Or refer to this article:
iTunes for Windows XP: "Disk is locked" or "iTunes folder cannot be found" when installing or opening iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1866 -
I can't get my music to play in my itunes. It comes with a exclamation mark next to the song numbers and says that the original songs can't be played cause cant find the file. How do I get the songs back? (I found the files
You get exclamation marks or dead tracks because iTunes can’t find the file. This can happen for a number of reasons:
The song file or a folder in its path was renamed
The song file or the folder it is in has been moved
The song file has been deleted
The device containing the song files e.g. external drive is not accessible or the drive letter has changed.
If you use an external drive, a change in drive letter is a common cause and you need to change it back.
AS a way of working out what has happened, right click on a track and select the summary tab (you will have to go past an error message). The summary tab will tell you where iTunes thinks the track is located. How does that compare with where the track actually is?
The xml library file is not used by iTunes, it is created to allow other programs to access the library. You can recreate the iTl file from the xml file, but there is no point if the location of the files is wrong.
There is a simple way of getting you music back in iTunes, but it loses all playlists counts and rating. To do this drag iTunes library.itl and iTunes Library.xml to your desktop. Then open iTunes and an empty library is created. Add you iTunes Media folder to it.
If you can't work out what went wrong and how to fix it, you may have to do this. -
Why are songs/albums deleted off of the iTunes store? How can I get them back on the iTunes store? PLEASE help. Thank you.
Perhaps the copyright holders chose to remove them. What album were you after?
tt2 -
I downloaded a song that I purchased from the ITunes store, but the song does not play properly. How can I re-download the same song without having to purchase it a second time?
I could not find an option to "report a problem".
Log in to the Store. Click on "Account" in your Quick Links. When you're in your Account information screen, go down to Purchase History and click "See all".
Find the item that is not playing properly. If you can't see "Report a Problem" next to the entry, click the "Report a problem" button. Now click the "Report a Problem" link next to the item.
(Not entirely sure what happens after you click that link, but fingers crossed it should be relatively straightforward.) -
I can no more connect my Ipod to Itune, when it proposed a new update of the software I accepted, from then my I pod is not recognisez by my PC and I have the Itune in its screen.
Hi,
Try placing your iPod in Recovery Mode and restoring it via iTunes: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808.
Hope this helps!
---likeabird--- -
This article is vague and unhelpful. My iTunes needs help from a pro.
I have over 120,000 songs -- NO movies, TV, radio, or books...
I have other programs which efficiently run things which are not audio-based.
So why can I not get iTunes working well?? It now takes at least 10 secs for any operation to be completed!
That is just plain evil. But I am sure I could do something to help.
All the music is on an 2T external drive.TS1717 as noted in the thread title...
Brigancook, is the library database on the external or just the media? iTunes reevaluates smart playlists and rewrites its database after every action on the library. I've found this can make a library half that size, with a lot of smart playlists, quite sluggish. That said I'm aware part of my problem is aging hardware. Having the database on the internal drive may improve performance if it is currently on the external.
I'd expect to see an exponential relationship between size and response time which may explain what you see. Cutting down on the number of smart playlists might help. If we're really lucky the long awaited iTunes 11 might have streamlined some of the background processes as well as cleaning up the front end.
tt2 -
I can't make purchases anymore in the App "Clash of Clans" and yet I can purchase music and movies from the iTunes store. Can someone help?
What happens when you try to buy them, does the 'buy' button not work, do you get any error messages ... ?
If you are getting a message to contact iTunes Support then you can do so via this link and ask them for help (we are fellow users on these forums, we won't know why the message is appearing) : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/ - click on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page, then Purchases, Billing & Redemption
If it's a different problem ... ? -
How can I listen to my itunes on my ipad (3) when not connected to wifi? It shows a screen stating that the Itunes store can not be accessed.
You have to sync your music to your iPad, this can be done from a WiFi connection to your iCloud account for those purchased from the iTunes store. Non-iTunes music has to be synced using iTunes Match, a fee is charged for that premium service.
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I have 100's of CDs that I have downloaded to my itunes library and they are in the library playable but they do not show up in the C drive under the iTunes Music folder under users. Why are they in the libary and not in the itunes music folder. Win 7 OS. When I look in the library under the get info screen it says they are in the folder itunes music, under the c: drive but when I actually go to that folder to look for them they are not there....HELP!
Hello RumDog,
I think this article will help you find the media in your library.
Where are my iTunes files located?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391
Discovering and changing the iTunes Media folder location
Note: You would usually only change the iTunes Media folder location to share music between accounts on the same computer. See this article for specific steps on how to accomplish this. Also, see this article if you want to know how to move your music to a new computer.
Mac OS X: Click the iTunes menu and choose Preferences.
Windows: Click the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
Click the Advanced pane. iTunes displays the location of your iTunes Media folder.
You can then:
Note where your media folder is, such as for backing up your media.
Use the Reset button to reset it's location to the default (which is the iTunes folder).
Click the Change button to select a folder for a new location. Once you change this location:
If you make a new or alternate iTunes library, the new location will be used by that library.
Existing files will not be moved unless you choose File > Library > Organize library and choose the option to "Consolidate files."
From: Where are my iTunes files located?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391
Cheers,
Sterling -
we have 5 devices on one itunes account how do I give them each their own icloud account and still share the itunes account?
You need a unique AppleID for each iCloud account. So grab some free gmail, hotmail, aol, yahoo or whatever email addresses to make five new AppleIDs. Now, everybody make an iCloud account for themselves, and keep the existing shared AppleID and password just for use in the iTunes and App Stores. You can also each use your own unique AppleIDs to make iMessage accounts and keep those separate as well.
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