I think I lost all my songs help!

Tranfered my songs from my Ipod to my computer via X-Play. Since my songs and my Ipod were formated for a mac I had to reformat my Ipod to work with windows. In order to reformat it had to erase my library on the Ipod itself. My Itunes library list all the songs, snce I "thought" I transfered them saftly. Now I have no back up. Itunes lists all the file sizes and memory stating that they are there. I have thousands of deads tracks. Can't find them at all. Have been studying posts trying to cure it. Hope not all is lost.

You Might be able to have the store grant you a one time re-download of your entire purchase history, it has been done before as mentioned in this blog entry:
http://thecontent.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/itunes-lets-people-re-download-all-yo ur-music-once/
"Itunes Music Store Says "In the event that a customers entire music library is lost, the iTunes Music Store does re-grant the purchases history. Please keep in mind that Apple does not offer protection against the loss of purchases, so this is a one-time exception.""

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I think i lost all my songs...

So my ipod(4G) kept spazzing, like just cycling through a bunch of songs without playing them, so i tried to restart it, the whole toggle the hold switch back and forth and then hold down play and the center button like I've done before... but when it came back on all my music and setting were gone. But when i looked at my settings under the "About" section where it usually says how many songs are on it and the serial number and the name and all that stuff, it said that it had 0 songs, 18.5 gb capacity, but only 6 gb were available, which was the same as before all the songs disappeared. so something has to still be on my ipod right? What's going on with that? can i get my songs back?

This sounds like a corrupt hard drive. This doesn't mean to say that the songs aren't still there though (hence the used space), just that the ipod cannot read them.
A restore then reloading the songs from iTunes usually cures this.

Help, lost all the songs on my iPod when checked the box titled "Replace all items when Autofilling" in my Autofill Settings window.

Help, I lost all the songs on my iPod when I deleted a few songs from my iTunes Library, checked the box titled "Replace all items when Autofilling" in my Autofill Settings window, and then tried to Autofill. Note that I do not purchase songs from iTunes, but rather I rip songs off my own cd's and then transfer the mp3 files to iTunes. And after I transfer mp3 files from my pc to iTunes and then Autofill, I generally delete those files from my pc.
I can still see the songs in my iTunes Library, but not on my iPod. Is there a way that I can salvage them and get them back on my iPod?
Thanks in advance.

Well you will have to wait to connect you ipod to the orignal computer and it will put all your songs back on to it.

I just got a new iMac yesterday. I connected my Itouch and it would appear I have lost all my songs! Can anyone help? This is my first Mac and I am very intimidated by it.I

I just got a new iMac yesterday. I connected my Itouch and it would appear I have lost all my songs! Can anyone help? This is my first Mac and I am very intimidated by it.I

How did you get your songs onto your iPod Touch?
If purchase directly from iTunes you can download them again.
If your iPod is synced to iTunes on a Windows PC, then, sync your iPod to that computer.
If this is your first Mac, are you migrating from a Windows PC?
You may be interested in Apple's support pages on switching to Mac from PC.
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

HT4914 When I subscribed to iTunes Match I lost all my songs. I did a back up of my ITunes Library to iCloud but I can't find the songs! Can someone help me?

When I subscribed to iTunes Match I lost all my songs. I did a back up of my ITunes Library to iCloud but I can't find the songs! Can someone help me?

I guess the iTunes store is not recognizing your computer. Did you de-authorise your computer after you uploaded to iTunes Match. Did you register your new computer with a different User ID? Do you have Genius turned on (which needs to be on as it works in conjunction with iTunes Match. Did you authorise your new computer?
You paid for ITunes match & uploaded your songs using a different computer. So there are obviously one or more steps which need to be taken to download your media from the iCloud. Either someone else with more expertise than I can help you, for example, Limnos Limnos ; or King_Penguin King_Penguin or Chris_CA https://discussions.apple.com/people/Chris%20CA would probably be able to help you better than I.
I don't work for Apple, I'm only a volunteer, if you can't get help from someone as mentioned above there's always Kappy (who is extremely busy) Kappy ;
then I would recommend going through the tried and true channel here > http://www.apple.com/support/contact/
Sorry I couldn't solve your problem myself. I'm about ready to retire from this game.
Peace Out.

I pressed"SYNC" and lost all the songs I downloaded from many cd's, how can I get all of them back? please help. I'm so frustrated!

i pressed "SYNC" and lost all the songs from many cd's that I loaded to my library, how can I get them all back?

When you say "account," do you mean your iTunes library, because your iTunes library is what is on your computer? Your iTunes library does not have an email address. An account that is related to iTunes is your Apple ID (which is an email address) and you use it as your user name to sign in to the iTunes Store, to make purchases. Changing your Apple ID will not make songs disappear from your computer's iTunes library.
If you had an Apple ID and used it to make song purchases from the iTunes Store, and then started using a different Apple ID, you should be able to re-download the songs purchased with the old Apple ID. In iTunes, sign in to the iTunes Store using your OLD Apple ID (and password). That may not be your current email address, but Apple uses it as your user name, so it does not matter.
On the iTunes Store Home screen, click on Purchased under QUICK LINKS. This takes you do the Purchased screen, where you can re-download previous song purchases (for that Apple ID) at no cost.
NOTE: If those song purchases are from more than a few years ago, you may also need to authorize your computer to play (and sync) songs for your old Apple ID.
For songs that were not purchased from the iTunes Store, if they are also gone, you cannot get them back unless you have a backup (or they are still loaded on your old iPod).
If that's not what you mean by "changed the email address on my account," please post back with more details.

I just got a new Macbook Pro, plugged my iPod into it and lost all my songs on my iPod. How do I get them back?

I just got a new MacBook Pro, plugged my iPod into it and noticed all my songs didn't transfer, including the 6 new ones I just purchased. I then brought it back to my PC to sync, and lost all my songs on my iPod. I'm now receiving all kinds of weird messages that the name of my iPod is a duplicate and cannot be synced (no matter what I put in it). During the process of loading it on my Mac., a bunch of odd emails were popping up to sync. I just kept deleting and adding mine. Is it corrupted? What have I done??? I am a personal trainer and live by my iPod. Please help.

Your post is abit confusing, especially on getting those weird messages and emails,( assumed in your Windows machine.)
Most likely you have Restored the iPod using the new Macbook pro, using the same name as that in your Windows machine, hence the duplicate name warning, as it is trying to sync Automatically.
If you are syncing your iPod to both the Mac and Windows, you must set it to Manually Manage Music, in the first machine that you setup iTunes with the iPod. Read thsi Apple Support Article
In iTunes, Preference, tick on Prevent devices syncing automatically
Hopefully your music are still in both your iTunes library,
Connect the iPod to the Mac
Restore it (just to fix any filesystem corruption by the Windows end)
Set it to Manually Manage Music
Sync your selected songs in your library.
Whern sync complete, Eject it
Connect it to your Windows PC.
Select the song in the library
Sync it.
It should work if your ipod Hardisk is not giving any problem.
Good luck!

Lost all my song when i updated to 3.1 version

Can someone help me here,i really could cry over this matter.I've hard on pickin song and adding them to my Ipod and now they ar gone.
Today when i was addin afew more song i went online,so it told me if i wanted to updated to 3.1version.So i did,dont all it told me to do,but when i re-plugged in my Ipod into me computer it has only added afew of the "crap" songs that was in my Itunes Library.Now i have lost all my good songs,over 3,000songs.
This there a way to back track,did it save the music in my ipod somewhere?
Please someone help
Thanks
Dave

Is there an email address i can use to ask about this matter.Even since i lost all my songs i feel down.
Where would be the best place to go over this matter?
Cheers
Dave

Move account onto another computer...lost all my songs :(

Hello,
I am very new to computers and my ipod nano. I went to set it up at my home computer and I lost all the songs that were already on my ipod. How do you get them back?
Appricate any help!
~thanks!

Hopefully the songs are still on your computer somewhere.
You can go to the XP Start menu > Search function and have a look. Enter the appropriate extension for the files (*.mp3, *.m4a, *.m4p are the most likely) and see what comes up.
Here are some other tips on finding lost files:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301749
If they're not on your computer but are still on your nano, have a look at MacMuse's post on recovering music from an iPod. Read it over slowly and carefully before proceeding. Post back if anything's not clear.
A very important lesson to be learned from this incident is that from now on you should always make sure you have a back-up copy of your music (or any other information stored on your computer that you consider to be valuable). Otherwise sometime, somehow, somewhere when you least expect it, you'll end up losing it.
I hope that's not the case this time but remember:
Your music is valuable - please back it up!

I updates my iPod before syncing it and lost all my song how can I see what song i lost?

I updated my iPod before syncing it and lost all my songs how can I see what songs I lost?

From your backup that is in iTunes or in iCloud or resync them from your computer.

I lost all my songs with iTunes mach after changing store

hi,
i have two itunes accounts, one on the french store, my first one, and another on the US one.
i subscribed to itunes match with the french account, and when i went on the us one, i lost all my songs for three months!
i need my two accounts, i live between nyc and paris.
*** happens and how can it be fixed.
thanks
Trikar

That's what happens when you switch stores. You need to stay with one account (at one store) otherwise you lose files that were synced with the other store.

HT1349 I have two ipods and lost all my song I had on one of them. There not in my folder no more

I have two ipod and lost all my songs on one of them

This is in the iPad forum, but anyway, your music should still be in iTunes. What happens when you try to sync your iPod with iTunes?

I wiped my computer and iTunes did not remember songs ect when reinstalled it and have I lost all my songs. Doesn't the Apple ID sign in keep all your details??

I wiped my computer and when I reinstalled iTunes, none of my songs ect were listed. Have I lost all my songs for good and need to redownload and copy my CDs???
Why doesn't the Apple ID remember everything for when you change computers or do a wipe? So frustrated and unhappy now.

Songs you upload into iTunes via MP3 file or CD are stored locally. You would need to do those again if you wiped your hard drive (assuming you didn't have a backup of your iTunes library)
Songs you download through iTunes are downloadable again with your ID at no additional charge.

HT1848 lost all my songs when i click on them i get a message that they are not found how do i fix it?

lost all my songs in itunes all i see is the titles will not play says song is not found?

Restore from iTune Backup
1. Settings>General>Reset>Erase all content and settings
2. You will be asked twice if you want to erase iPad
3. Slide to set up
4. Select Language
5. Select Country
6. Enable Location Service
7. Choose Wi-Fi Network
8. Enter Wi-Fi password
9. (a) Setup as new (b) Restore from iCloud Backup (c) Restore from iTune Backup
10. Select "Restore from iTune Backup"
11. You will be instructed to connect to iTune (computer)
On computer
12. Two options offered
13. (a) Set up as new iPad (b) Restore from backup (a list of backup will be shown)
14. Select Restore from backup and select the backup
15. Continue
16. Restoring iPad from backup
17. The settings for iPad restored

Think I lost all my non purchased music

I recently updated my iPod touch on a new computer that didn't have my iTunes on it. I downloaded the iTunes on this new computer thinking that when I plugged in my iPod the music would transfer to the new iTunes. My iPod did a 1hr update then asked if I wanted to back up my music on icloud or on my computer. I clicked "icloud". Then ALL my music (which was never purchased) deleted off my iPod and never transferred to my new computer. Is there any way to recover all this music?
Signed,
Super stressed...cause I'm getting married in a month and think I lost all my wedding music :(

The icloud backup does not include non-itunes purchased music. The backup to your computer does not include music at all.
This should all be on your computer. The ipod is not a storage/backup device. It simply mirrors the selected content from your computer. If the music is not on your computer, then it will not be on your ipod.
You need to copy everything from the old computer, or your backup copy of your old computer, to your new one.

I think I lost all my songs help!

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