G4 - IntelMac Mini...Lost playlists and play counts

The Migration Asst. couldn't see the boot partition on my G4 so I had to use Firewire Target mode to get my iTunes library from my G4 to the Mini. However, I lost all my playlists and counts. This should have been easy but it isn't.
Help appreciated!

Try: On your new MM iTunes Menu File "Import" then choose "iTunes Music Library.xml" on your G4 in ./Users/YourUserName/Music/iTunes

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I want to move the location of my iTunes library music files. At present they are all on my time machine . I want to move them all to my imac. Can I do that and keep all my playlists and play counts? Thanks in advance
its 1000s of songs . Originally I used the time machine as a networked drive but it can cause the songs to pause so I'm thinking it would be better to have the songs on the internal imac drive
how can I move the songs so I can re-open iTunes and the playlists (with plays in the 100s) find the song in the new place?

Do you mean on your Time Machine backup drive? Or are you actually accessing the backup? In either case you shouldn't be doing that. If you haven't space on your HDD to store the iTunes Library, then at least put it on another external drive.
Since you did not provide any information about what's actually "on my time machine," here's what you would do. The entire iTunes folder should be stored in the /Home/Music/ folder. Within that folder you would have three folders: imm Media, iTunes, and iTunes Playlists.

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My Macbook pro froze today and when and the force quit menu wasn't showing up so I reset my computer and when I opened itunes it was empty, it looked like I had just downloaded it with all the "helpful" notes everywhere. I was able to restore all the music from my time capsule and I'm wondering if anyone knows if playlists, play counts, can be restored because I have about 1000 podcasts about half listened to and now they all show that they haven't be listened to.

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I have my i-tunes on an external hard drive. I want to buy a new computer and download i-tunes, but I do not want to lose my playlists, play count , album covers and notes. How do I do that.
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See also this migrate iTunes library post.
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When I use Home share is it capable to transfer my playlists and play counts, etc?

Hi, i got a new laptop and Im trying to transfer about 60 Gb of music and videos to it from an old itunes account. I really want my playlists, the original dates i added the songs, and the play counts to be transferred as well. Can i do that with home sharing?
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Sofa_bed37 wrote:
Can i do that with home sharing?
home sharing will not transfer playcounts, ratings, and original "date added". you can transfer playlists but the actual music files will not be copied to the homeshared library, i.e. they must be already present in the other library.
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this will also provide an opportunity to create a backup of your library (generally a good idea in case something happens). you could use SyncToy to keep main library and backup in sync.

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The file you're wanting is the database ITL file:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
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I have just completed a reinstall of my OS following an error on my HDD.
I have used a Time machine backup to import all into the new operating system, yet all playlists and playcounts have disappeared.
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- Would the AppleTV (not the brand new one....) be able to attach new info to the Library?
- Would a normal iPod do the trick?
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ciao
ale

See this Article for some background information: What are the iTunes Library files?. It is important to note that there is a new naming convention for the iTunes .ITL database file when moving from version 4.8 or below to 4.9 or higher. The file names are consistent from 4.9 to 5.0 and 6.0.
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As may be the concepts in this one: All of my music is missing after downgrading from iTunes 4.9

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i am having trouble in getting playlists and play count to move to new computer via an external drive - i feel i am following the instructions on itunes - music moves but no playlists and count - old computer is windows xp to windows 8

From your OLD computer...
Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive... and then from the External Drive to your New Computer..
Full Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
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Thanks in advance,
B

I can't begin to describe how frustrating the screensaver issue has been for me (and I suspect countless others, judging by the number of threads on the topic).
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3695200?start=0&tstart=0
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Hi,
everytime I lost all the song ratings that I made and play counts in my iphone and my mac itunes overwrites with its one...
so if I want to have a 5 stars song I have to rate in the Mac to keep in the iphone.... but I want to change it I have to do it again in my itunes in my mac
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Im kinda newbie on this thing
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JoeleMoore,
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1. Open iTunes.
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4. From the Store menu (at the top of the iTunes window), choose Authorize Computer.
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Why does the iPad Mini not have music play count?

I bought an iPad Mini and also have a macbook. I had listened to various music on my iPad Mini the other day, however when I connected the iPad Mini to the Macbook and iTunes via the lightning connector to sync, it synced the ratings I gave the songs I listened to on the mini, but no play count, as if I had not listened to anything. I hope there is something I can do about this as I often look at my play count!!

Katrina UK
It should work work but these kind of bugs pop up between updates, both hardware and software. Try closing all apps in the recently used list on the iPad. Double tap the Home button, tap and hold one of the icons at the bottom till they wiggle then tap the to close them. Tap the Home button to get back to the Home screen then hold the sleep button till you see the slide to power off message. Once it has powered down completely hold the Sleep button till the Apple icon appears.
tomyiiii
Re: Why does the iPad Mini not have music play count?
Nov 18, 2012 11:34 AM (in response to Katrina UK)
Does it even really matter...?
Many people including myself rely on playcounts to control smart playlist to manage large libraries. Smart playlists can be created to show your most or least played tracks and used more or less as your favorites or other uses. Along with playcounts the date is transferred so to keep a fresh list of music on my smaller iPods a smart playlist set to songs not played in the last month keeps some fresh tunes on it.
Playcounts are also used to manage Podcasts in iTunes to delete older episode. Bookmarks, which can also be effected by this, can mess up audiobooks, movies and podcast playback between different devices. So yes, it does matter.

Erased/missing ratings and play counts

I searched for something similar in the boards but didn't come across any.
Here's the problem I've just encountered. I'm running iTunes 8.0.2 with all my music files on an external drive. I've haven't had any real issues with iTunes in all the years I've used it. A few months ago I finally finished going through all my music playing it at least once with itunes and rating them all. I turn it on today and my smart playlist which lists all the unplayed songs is showing 3.1 days of songs that have lost their play count and ratings data. Kinda frustrating.
Does anyone know what happened and if it is correctable?

My question is this: does this count as automatic updating for the purposes of ratings and play counts being copied to iTunes when I sync with iPod?
it should do. green eyes is a second gen nano, i'm syncing selected playlists only, and my play counts and ratings are updating in the smart playlists.
are you playing the songs through completely? i'm noticing that i only get a playcount update if i've completely played the song. (the ratings changes go through regardless of whether or not i've completely played a song on green eyes, though.)

G4 - IntelMac Mini...Lost playlists and play counts

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