Disabling genius and "ghost songs"
Okay, so this strange series of problems begun last night when I tried to add a new CD to my iTunes library (on windows) and subsequently to my ipod 4th gen. I should also note that this is the first time I have transferred data to my iPod since activating genius on my iTunes software. What happened is I clicked and dragged the new album into the "my ipod" playlist (I manually manage music). Looking at the status bar in iTunes i saw that it was transferring many songs not on the album, which i hadn't even interacted with recently. Upon looking back in my ipod I saw what I can only describe as "ghost songs" songs that i had previously deleted from my iPod, that had reappeared, but were unplayable, greyed out, and had no album art. Many of the "living" albums on my ipod had spontaneously lost album art as well. I am unable to delete the ghost songs as swiping sideways provides no delete option. In an attempt to fix the album art issues, i tried deleting music from my iPod and readding it from iTunes. However, iTunes is refusing to transfer the data, i have been able to fix this by deleting the music from my iTunes library and re-adding it, but it still doesn't display artwork. Also the genius icon has been added in between the shuffle and loop buttons in the player view and it has also deleted all of my previously existing playlists.
Please, all i want to do is get my playlists back if possible, disable genius, and remove the ghost songs. Getting album art back would also be nice.
This is still not fixed in iTunes 9.01
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hi all !!
sorry for my english ...
I encountered a very strange issue with my touch (first gen) : when I switch on GENIUS, I got an error message at the end of synchronisation : "can not synchro, error 13014).
then, GENIUS is not active on the ipod. I don't know what happened because I used GENIUS in the past without pbs ...
I can synchro without error if I put it off.
I can swith it on if I use another computer (my office one) and If I put off the synchro of the music : then I have GENIUS active on the Ipod BUT : no list possible, because my file is alone ... no other song like this one !! (approx 180 cds on my 16 gb Ipod !!!)
I tried to restore the ipod, to upgrade the system from 2. to 3. ... no effect !!
I don't know what to do ... I tried with only 8 songs : ok without GENIUS, error message when I tried to swith it on !!!
help will be nice !!!I found the solution:
first you have to locate your last library file, you can do this by clicking Edit-preferences-advanced. it will show you the itunes media folder location. then close Itunes
open your folder and locate the last library (libraries are saved with date names, find the most recent one or the one that was last modified).
change the name of the library to today´s date following the format it already has. you will have to change the name for libraries: .itl, .xml, genius and extras.
once you have changed the name to today´s date on the 4 libraries you will have to delete all other libraries existing on the same folder or on a folder named "previous itunes libraries". it is also recommended to delete the itunes "preferences file" .dat (usually 1kb) and the "sentinel" file.
so, you will have on your itunes media folder only 4 libraries: .itl .xml genius and extras.
the next step is to click the itunes icon holding the "shift" key . itunes will ask you to either "quit, choose library or create library" click on choose library. then locate the library you just renamed with today´s date and extension .itl
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