Erased music library Can songs be recovered

Relatively new to IPODS. Created music library with a computer that I do not have easy access to. I installed the software on computer that I do have access to and mistakenly erased all of my songs off of my IPOD mini. Can I recover those songs without access to the original computer? via the itunes website? How do I get the songs that I purchased? Is it possible to copy song files from the original computer to a disk or e-mail them to me at my current location? Do I need to send the IPOD to the old computer to download from the harddrive. Help?

See this link: Buegie, "Help! Can you undelete?" #1, 12:56pm Oct 9, 2005 CDT
Just do a bit of research before you attempt to recover the deleted songs. Sometimes it works, othertimes it may not work as well....
Edit: Emailing the files will be too large. You can have them uploaded to a fileserver if you have the availability, then download them to your new computer. Better to have them burned to a CD or DVD and forwarded to you.

Similar Messages

Help!"Some of the songs in the iTunes music library, including song "x"..."

I got an ipod, installed itunes which then put all music that was already on my comp into my library. I was able to put those songs from the library onto my ipod. Now i am uploaded cds (store bought, good condition) into itunes. They play in iturnes but when i drag them over to the ipod icon i get an error message saying "some of the songs in the iTunes music library, including song 'x' were not copied to the iPod 'y' because they cannot be played on this iPod." What do i do?! Please help brand new iPod dying to use it!

iPods, can only play files in specific formats and at certain bit rates. My guess is that you have your import settings set to something not compatible with the ipod. Navigate to the preferences screen and locate the importing tab and tell me what the settings are.

Within Music Library can anyone please explain why when I select the option to sort 'Album by Artist' a number of tracks are being treated as separate albums? How can I correct this? I have tried to 'drag and drop' but that doesn't work.

Within music Library can anyone please explain why after I select the option to sort 'Album by Artist' a number of tracks are being treated as separate albums? How can I fix this? I have tried to manually correct by 'drag and drop' individual tracks but that doesn't work. My music library includes a number of repeat album artwork images simply because not all tracks are being listed under the one album making my library more difficult to use than it should. Any advise would be appreciated.

See Grouping tracks into albums.
tt2

IPod Nano 3rd gen 8GB does not show music library, can't restore in osx.3.9

I have two problems: Although, I can see mu iPod's music library when I plug in it into my ancient laptop (iBook G4 10.3.9), the library doesn't display on the iPod once it's disconnected, meaning I can't play any songs on the iPod proper). I've done everything that the Apple website recommends for troubleshooting my Nani 3rd generation, including attempting to reset it repeatedly. I've now saved the songs elsewhere, and I'm prepared to restore it, but I can't seem to find a way to reset it in iTunes 4 (apparently the latest version of iTunes that will work on this computer). Am I missing something? What should I do? Any help would be much appreciated.
Best,
Diane

Hey there,
If your iPod is a 3rd generation nano, it will not work with anything below 10.4 as outlined in this Apple support document. That could be the underlying problem. Hope this helped.
[iPod nano (3rd generation) - Technical Specifications|http://support.apple.com/kb/SP14]
B-rock

Ihave just had my computer cleaned and lost all my files i redownloaded itunes but lost my music library can i transfer them back into my library from my ipod if so how

can anyone help ive lost my music library on my computer after it was cleaned can i tranfer from my ipod back into my music library without manually loading my cds again

See this excellent user tip from another forum member turingtest2 on different methods and software available to assist you with this task.
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device
B-rock

Music library duplicate songs

Anyone know why ios5 duplicates ALL my songs like 2-3 times in the music library> I have itouch 4g white

I'm curious if you had edited any of your songs (i.e. Genre, etc.) I have noticed that I have duplicates songs but it's only for songs that I changed something on. For example, I changed a song from Rock to Hard Rock and on my device I see it twice. When I click to expand the iPhone in iTunes, I look at Music and see the song twice - once for Rock and once for Hard Rock. But when I look at my Library in iTunes, I only see the song once.
I'm not sure why it's doing this, but only for songs I've bought since I upgraded. I bought these songs via iTunes on my PC, not from the device.

Music library can't be accessed from iphoto

I don't know what I did but ... somehow my music library (both the canned music from Apple and my own itunes music) is no longer accessible from iphoto (e.g. to create a slideshow.) The only thing that plays is a piece of a broadway musical tune that is in my Itunes library.
I tried following the trouble shooting steps and recreated a playlist and then relaunched both programs. This did not solve the problem.
Any thoughts/suggestions regarding other possible causes/solutions are welcome.

Hi TD,
The screen lists all the music sources. However when I go to look for a specific music file, including all the canned music from Apple, I can not find it.
All that plays is this snippet of music from a Broadway Musical that is in my itunes library. I do remember when that snippet first appeared. I was working in IMovie. I did not select the specific music file but fear that somehow I hit some combination of commands that eliminated my ability to reach any of these music files.
Is that possible???
Thank you for your time in responding.
GS

Can I restore my accidentally erased music library from iTunes match?

I was making room on my external drive for my back up, when I erased the Time Machine back ups as well as my iTunes library. Is there a way of bringing my library back from iTunes Match?

Hi,
I presume that you did not not delete your iTunes library from within iTunes. Can you recover from trash? Also why did you manually delete your time machine backup? Time machine manages your hard drive space and removes older backups when more space is required.
If you have iTunes Match, open iTunes and turn on match.
If you see the tracks listed and you see the " ! ", delete all tracks but don't delete from cloud. Highlight tracks and download. If you see the tracks with download icon, highlight tracks and download.
Jim

Huge number of duplicate files in iTunes music library, every song twice! Can I just uplug my external hard drive and clear all songs, then resync?

iTunes seems to have a duplicate listing of every song that is on my removeable external USB hard drive. Is there an easy way to remove these? Every song is listed twice, but one of the listings gives an error when you try to access it.
I haven't tried this yet, but can I just unplug the HD, then delete all of those songs, then plug it back in and let iTunes "find" them again?

Try iTunes Folder Watch with its option to scan for dead tracks on startup. Alternatively...
Lost & Found
Create a playlist called Found, select everything in Music and drag it into the Found playlist. Create a smart playlist called Lost matching All the rules Playlist is Music and Playlist is not Found. Your "missing" tracks will be in this playlist. If it suits your purposes you can select them all with Ctrl-A then delete them with Ctrl-Shift-Delete.
tt2

Update to the latest version, no my music library can't find half the songs, help?

just updated to the latest version of itunes, now I get a message that itunes can't find the location of half my songs, help?

Thoses items are not part of the backup that iTunes makes as the first stip of the update. Thus, if they were not in the iTunes library of the computer on which you performed the update. They are synced from the library to the iPod at the end of the update andthus if they are no in the library they can't be synced to the iPod.
If in the USA you can redownload most iTunes purchases by iCloud. See:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

My playlists only appear in itunes when my ipod is connected, and it will not allow me to drag songs into playlists from the music library, can anyone help. Have downloaded newest version of itunes and using windows xp.

My Playlist only appear in the itunes when the ipod is connected , and I can not drag a song into a playlist, Also I repeatedly get a message to authorize the songs purchased in order to sync the ipod. I followed the instructions in the help menu on doing this but nothing seems to work, Help anybody ? Have installed the lastest version of itunes and I'm running windows XP. Thanks

Is it possible that you are not seeing the thirteenth song because you did not scroll all the way down within the playlist?
Hope this helps!
PSkilton

Backed up itunes music, library, now songs are missing??

Hey all,
I recently had to restore my laptop to factory specs, which meant I had to remove and re-install my itunes. I made sure before I restored it to back up all my itunes music folder and database/library files to an external hard drive. As I have over 11,000 songs in itunes (~60gb worth), this process took several hours, but I felt sure everything was backed up and I was good to go.
Wrong! When I re-installed itunes, it asked me to choose a library to use, and so I chose the location on my external hard drive, and all was fine until I unplugged it. Then it wouldn't locate any songs. So I re-imported all my songs and playlists over that were on my hard drive, but it's telling me that some songs can't be found. They should be in there but they're not. So I used a 3rd party software app to move the songs from my ipod to a folder on my computer, but they all have weird names (the way ipod organises the songs) and I don't know which song is which.
To make a long story short, after deleting and re-adding my itunes library, I now have 2-3 copies of each playlist (including the standard ones that automatically are in itunes), and 2 copies of several songs, one of which works and the other doesn't.
Since I still don't have several (possibly 100 or more) songs in my itunes that I do have on my ipod, should I just delete the whole itunes and start over?
All I really want is my itunes library back and the info like the original date added, last played, play count and ratings.
Oh, and I'm using itunes 7.5 b/c I tried 8 and didn't like it.
I really hope someone can help answer me b/c I've been unable to add any new songs to my ipod for 2 months now!

I have now resorted to uninstalling, redownloading, and reinstalling iTunes again.
That won't fix anything.
If you want everything to stay on the external...
Hold Shift and launch iTunes.
Select *Create library*.
Select a folder on the external.
iTunes will create a new iTunes folder.
Inside this folder will be a folder called "Automatically add to iTunes".
Drag all the music on the external to this folder.

Damaged hard disk = erased music library?

Oh god, oh god, oh god, my hard disk's been damaged and I'll slit my throat if my music is gone. I will. Please help! I don't know if it'll erase my music, or f it does, if there's any way to get it back. I don't have iCloud or anything like that so please, for the love of god, HELP.

See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
tt2

Music Library Missing Songs

I'm using iTunes Match with automatic download of purchased items on my Mac. My daughter purchased a song using my account. It shows up in my "Purchased" list and my "Recently Added" list. It shows up on my iOS devices. But it doesn't show up in Library on my Mac. It is definitely downloaded on the Mac -- I see the file in Finder sitting exactly where it is supposed to be next to other songs by the same artist. I tried dragging the song into Library. I tried using "Add to Library" from the "File" menu. But when I search the Library by artist or song title it doesn't show up. This is a nuisance, because I count on the Library being a complete list of all songs I own, for building other playlists. I don't want to have to keep looking in different places to find songs. Any ideas?

Ok. So I checked today and they were there. I thought I had tried everything in terms of closing and restarting iTunes, updating Match, etc. But somehow it just required a lot of time to update itself. Still a mystery to me how that works.

HT204406 how do i merge my account with my husbands account so that my music library can be used on our apple tv?

how do i merge my music with my husbands apple tv?

Click here and ask the iTunes Store staff for assistance.
(104159)

Erased music library Can songs be recovered

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for