How to revert iTunes Library/Playlists

I’ve been trying to love the new iTunes 11 for the last month or so and have concluded I never will. I’d like to revert back and can see how this can be done but the issue I have is I’ve made lots and lots of changes to my playlists and added lots of additional music since installing which I’ll obviously lose if I simply revert to an older library.
I see there is the facility to export my library and there are a few option formats there. Is it possible to export as an earlier version or in a format that the old version of iTunes will just import as is?

To roll back to iTunes 10.7 first download a copy of the 32 bit installer or 64 bit installer as appropriate, uninstall iTunes and supporting software, i.e. Apple Application Support & Apple Mobile Device Support. Reboot. Restore the pre-upgrade version of your library database as per the diagram below, then install iTunes 10.7.
See iTunes Folder Watch for a tool to scan the media folder and catch up with any changes made since the backup file was created.
Backup your entire library before downgrading, then update the backup once you're happy the downgrade is successful.
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Select a single song with a broken link, press CTRL+I to Get Info, cancel when asked to locate the track and take a look at the Summary tab. Post back where iTunes is looking for the file. It begins file://localhost
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The alphabetizing different between iTunes Library & Playlists appears to be different, for example, look how The ... bands are listed between the two.
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txchain wrote:
I'm trying to keep the focus on the functionality of the program.
Cross referencing is almost inherit to any developed program like iTunes.
There are two features to this program that Alphabetize differently.
Should Apple correct this if it is true ?
They're different kinds of data. Songs are tagged with artist names and so on, and iTunes uses that data to organize your music like a library, using library alphabetization — i.e., ignoring articles. Playlists are user-defined categories, for which library alphabetization is less obviously appropriate. They're not cross-referenced — they have no connection to each other unless the user creates one.
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The following Knowledge Base article offers up some great steps for moving your music to another computer:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
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Thanks. It appears that the only way to do so is to go back to iTunes 10.x - so lame. And thanks for the feedback link - I have left my feedback which I share below. I also email Tim Cook so someone on his staff will at least see it and not just the support folks.
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I cannot believe you dropped the ability to gift a playlist from my iTunes library to a friend with the "redesigned" iTunes 11. Apparently iTunes 11.0 IS REDESIGNED TO SELL LESS SONGS. What a complete and utter failure on your part - you're literally shooting yourselves in the foot if you have taken away the ability for users to actually BUY MORE PRODUCT from you and share their experience with iTunes. And during the holiday season. WHAT WERE THE GENIUSES OF ITUNES APP TEAM THINKING???? Aren't you in the business of selling iTunes songs? And it also makes such a great last minute gift too. And seeing how you release iTunes 11 back in Nov, you could have easily made this fix before the holiday season, but instead have not and instead let your users discover the miss in frustrating attempts - (go check out the apple support forums - your product teams check those forums, right?).
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How to transfer itunes library to external drive and keep playlists and ratings

I don't have much space on my laptop. I have attached an external drive. I want to access my Itunes library from
the external drive. All attempts to move the library now result in me losing my "playlists" and even more importantly
my ratings and genre information.
How can I move the library with all my associated data intact such as the playlists, ratings, genres?
I want this external drive to be the main location where I access my Itunes library.
Once that is done I will work on backing it up, as that will be the only place that the data exists.
Also, will my Apple TV be also be able to access my Itunes library with playlists. thus far I have not been able to do this.

Start by consolidating your library. When you consolidate, any songs in the iTunes Library that are not in the iTunes Music Folder are copied to the Music Folder and the Library is updated to point to those new files. Files already in the iTunes Music Folder have no changes made to them: Consolidating your library - Windows
Then copy the iTunes Folder to your external drive. Copying the whole folder brings with it the iTunes Music folder and also the iTunes Library (iTunes Library.itl in Windows) database file which holds all the information about your songs (Playlists, Ratings, Play Counts, Last Played, Date Added, etc). You'll get more information including the Folder/File structure in this article: What are the iTunes library files?
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How can I migrate my iTunes library, playlists, etc from XP to Windows 7?

I apologize if this has been asked and answered before. I cannot find a relevant article with google or the
search here on Apple support.
My iTunes library is on an external drive. iTunes keeps a few folders in XP
on the C: drive under
Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple,
Documents and Settings\Mike\Application Data\Apple,
Docuemnts and Settings\Mike\Local Settings\Apple, and
Docuemnts and Settings\Mike\Local Settings\Apple Computer.
I copied these folders to my external drive and hooked it up to my new computer
that runs Windows 7 where I had already installed a new copy of iTunes.
I tried copying the folders that were on the (XP) C: drive to my best guess as to where
they would go on the (W7) C: drive. Microsoft being Microsoft, they cannot let
the names of anything remain the same.
I set the preferences on my W7 iTunes to point to the external drive as my library
location. Nothing happened. I tried restarting iTunes, but still my existing data was not
acknowledged.
I then used the import files from folder option, using the location of the ITUNES folder
on my external drive. This ran fairly quickly. But, to my dismay, all my ratings were
lost and (thinking about it, not surprisingly) none of my playlists were there either.
So, does anyone have any experience on what files should be copied from XP to W7
and where? It seems to me this should not be that difficult. After all, the data is
all there, right?
One article I read suggested using the iPod as a backup device to transfer the files.
Would this work? Would it also transfter the playlists, ratings, etc? My concern
(again based on another article I read) is that I will wind up with duplicate copies
of all the music in my music library.
(As a precaution, I have backups of my iTunes library and the (XP) C: folders on
two other external drives. Also, the XP PC still has iTunes on it, so I could easily
reconnect the external drive there and do other stuff if necessary.
When I purchased my new iPod, it took almost 24 hours to transfter my music library
to it. It also takes almost 24 hours to do the drive to drive backup. (Maybe my new
computer will be faster.) Based on this experience, I would like to avoid having the
migration of data take that long.
If the changes I made to the W7 PC need to be undone, I can easily just remove iTunes
there and start again.
I hope my question is clear and I thank you for your time.
Cordially, MZ
PS: The XP box is an IBM and the W7 box is a new Dell. Both are desktop models.

You will need the iTunes Library.itl file which generally lives in ~/Music/iTunes/. You can recover this from the backups you were making before the HDD died. Otherwise, you cannot recreate the library.

I just recently updated my iPod Nano 7th Generation, and, after the upgrade finished, my iTunes library, playlists and all, vanished. How can I restore the playlists and songs to iTunes?

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It sounds like your iPod Nano is not recognized in iTunes anymore after a recent update. I recommend the following article to help you get that in order named:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1369
1. Start with the iPod Troubleshooting Assistant
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