Help! Lost I-Tunes Library
I have Windows XP which crashed and I unfortunately lost all of my music that I had stored in my I Tunes library. As you can imagine, this is devastating! Does anyone know what program I can use to download from my IPOD back to my PC? I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
IPod Agent is a good program for doing this, Elaine. Although there's a cost associated with it, they have a 15-day free trial. That should be plenty of time for you to copy your music from your iPod back to your computer.
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Help, wrong i- tunes library. Most recent one is gone.
Help! I opened i tunes one day and it asked me to select a library. Thinking that I didn't want to create a new one, i decided to choose one. It said previous i- tunes library. I chose the one that was last month's but somehow, my most recent library has been lost. All of my recent purchases too. Any suggestions on how to fix it?
This JUST happened to me! Were you able to solve the problem?
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I can't seem to find nearly 3000 songs - I think I may have deleted from the Cloud by mistake - help! They do seem to appear on my laptop but each one then has be restored one by one - any ideas how I can add the lot to the Cloud. I have ITunes match, a laptop, I Pad and I phone
Why would she have more than one library?
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I have lost my i tunes library. Many of my lost songs are on my two nano i pods.
Since I have lost my i tunes library I have re-installed most songs. However I have a large number of songs on my i pods which I would like to retrieve. If I try to load my i pods to my computer will I lose the songs which I could not get re-installed to my library but are on the i pods. Since I lost my library I have not re-introduced my i pods for updating since they too will likely have to be re-installed. Will I lose the songs already in the i pods if have to re-introduce them to my computer. A solution to this problem would be for me to transfer my lost library songs from the i pod to my library. Can this be done?
1) Is it possible to retrieve songs from a lost i tunes library? Withoutout re-loading the entire library (since I have done this manually).
2) What happens if I re-introduce my i pods to the computer? Will this cause me to lose the present i pod installed music?
3) Can I transfer my lost songs and albums from my i pods to the i tunes library?See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
As you will have discovered, the music sync is only one way, from iTunes to the iPod, minus iTunes purchases. On top of that, an iPod is designed to sync with only one iTunes library at a time.
B-rock -
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Rachyl;
how do i go about downloading my ipod to itunes
thank you for your help.
Try this out:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin
/7.0/en/657win.html
I would also search your hard drive for them and add
them back into iTunes. Sometimes this happens, but
iTunes does not "Save" your music, your hard drive
does that. iTunes only holds the file path in order
to reference that music by.
If no joy, you can rip your iPod onto your iTunes.
Good Luck,
Rachyl -
recently "lost" a purchased song, (Plus the accompanying artwork) from my i-tunes library, after upgrading my O.S. from windows XP to windows 7.
Is there any way to get the original song back, or, at least, re-purchase it?... I tried to do the latter, (It's still available in the itunes store) but, when I clicked on the buy link, I was informed that I had already bought it and was only given the option to, either, copy the link or send it to Facebook/Twitter
I also, inadvertently, deleted a couple of default playlists (Notably recently added) while attempting to get the song back.
Can someone out there, please, help me out. with the solution(s). (preferably step by step if possible, as I'm a bit of a Homer Simpson when it comes to this sort of thing) .. Doh!! :-(Hello, MrKite549.
Here is an article that will walk you through download any past purchases that are missing from your iTunes library.
Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
Cheers,
Jason H. -
Since reinstalling itunes i can no longer sync. Error message says already synced with another itunes library. I get a blank sync - no songs, photos ect as it comes up with this error whenever try to select what is to be synced. Help - lost everything. Complete nightmare - Apple sort a fix NOW, but will take any help
Plawexki wrote:
... do you know if the contacts, photos, messages etc will be wiped?
Yes... Everything will be Wiped and Replaced with what is currently on Your Mac.
SYNCING with iTunes
See here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
From Here > http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/syncing/
You may find this information of interest...
Have a read here...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18409815?ac_cid=ha
And See Here...
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I have a new Mac with my i-tunes library on it, but it does not have a CD drive so I cannot add music from CD's with it.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank-you.
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Help in backing up my i tunes library
I am trying to back up my i tunes library and im running into a problem. I go to file and select back up to disc. I then select the back up entire i tunes library and playlists. I then insert a blank DVD-RW disc. The disc is 4.7gb and my library is 3.58gb. I then click back up. I tunes then says checking items for back up. when the check is complete i get a box that says items in this back up will not fit on one disc and do I want to backup to multiple discs. I have two options, data discs and cancel. When I select data discs it says burning discs...initializing then my disc pops out and I am prompted to insert a blank disc. When I re insert the disc I get checking for media and the disc pops out again and i tunes says it is checking media. I went to Edit, Preferences and Advanced. Under Burning I selected Speed Max Possible and Data CD or DVD and clicked O.K. I go through the steps again and have the same result. Any suggestions on how to back up my library would be greatly appreciated. I lost my library once and dont want it to happen again. Thank You.
I did it one simply by selecting my library, and clicking on the burn button. iTunes will ask for CDs (or DVDs) when the first one is full if your library is larger than the media you used.
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I Tunes Library.itl cannot open!! help!!
Everytime i try to open my itunes account it says ""the file "i Tunes Library.itl" cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of i Tunes"" it wont even open when i plug my phone in. I have no idea why it is doing this or hoe to fix it. if you could help me out that would be amazing!
<Email Edited by Host>"iTunes Library.itl" cannot be read.. what is that supposed to mean? Im startinto think i should jsut ebay this thing off and i just had it for a few weeks.I went to that site and i did not see anything thats says downgrading it to 6 isnt the disc that comes with its a 6 version?all i saw was just a bunch of topics or which one do i cick on there?i jsut reinstalled the program to and it still dont work i have a 30GB black iPod is it worth all the hassle to try and fix it?and does not haeving a High speed port causing the problem to?
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My laptop crashed with mine and my husbands I tunes Library. I have sync my i phone with my work mac but I am still missing some of my songs.
My husband was unable to do this as his i phone broke too and he has no music at all.
Please help.Apple devices are designed to sync with a single library. If you move the device to a new library iTunes will suggest wiping the device and reloading it with the contents of the library on the new computer, even if most of the content is identical. For an iOS device this process would also delete and reinstall any applications which would discard and settings or saved data associated with the apps. You probably don't want to do this.
Ideally you would have migrate the working library from the computer previously used to manage the device (the laptop) to the computer you now want to use (the desktop) before adding other new content into the new computer's library. That way the device would have easily moved from syncing with one machine to the other.
I'm not quite sure what the best next step is at this point. Does the desktop library sync with any other devices?
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I an trying to recover lost music that was in my I tunes library.
I now have more music on my I pod nano and want to sync this collection back to the I tunes library. Is this possiable ?
If not, can anyone give me a hint, other than the ones on the I tunes tutorial ( none of these have worked ) how I can get my music backYes it's possible to sync music back from a iPod back into iTunes that (I assume) wasn't purchased on the iTunes Store.
Apple allows iTunes Store purchases on devices to be reversed back into iTunes, just not cd rips and stuff like that. For that it's a one way trip to the device from iTunes.
I likely can't suggest such software here, but if you visit iLounge you can ask what is the latest software that works for your platform.
Really it only takes a mere few minutes to backup your iTunes Library and stick in a few cd/dvd's or a external drive. iTunes even has a menu command for it to make it oh so simple. Please use it and backup all your data.
Hard drives fail, computers burn up, thieves steal, stuff gets forgotten. Plan for something happening because it will.
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The file "i tunes library .it" cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of itunes? What do i do help please
That message may appear if you intentionally downgrade iTunes, alternatively it may indicate a corrupt library database.
See Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash.
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Help please!
So my laptop died when I spilt coffee all over it. I had never synched my itunes (i know i know) and now i cannot access my tunes library. How can i get my library back ?! ThanksSee Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device. Even if you don't have such a device there are links in the article that will show how to recover your purchases.
In addition, the laptop may have drowned but the hard drive is probably fine. You should be able to find someone who can extract the drive from the laptop and recover your personal data from it.
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