New iPod/songs missing
I recently got a new iPod, new hard drive for my iMac, and a new version of iTunes. When I reinstalled iTunes, all of my songs were gone. So my question is, they still show up in my purchases in the iTunes store, so how do I get them back to my library?
Go into your Purchase History, located in the top right of iTunes store. It's found in your account about 2/3rds of the way down. You can view what you've purchased and find it all that way.
Unfortunately, i believe that you will have to re download everything manualy from the artists page. Depending on the length of time from when you downloaded the songs, you may have to pay a reduced fee. My advice is to keep backups on an external hard drive. They really are priceless in moments like these.
All the best
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donna-jay-dee wrote:
I have a new ipod touch, 32GB, 4th gen. I tried to sync the 2,250 songs I have in itunes to the ipod, but it says I don't have enough space. This ipod is supposed to hold up to 7000 songs. I haven't put photos or anything else in this ipod. What am I missing?
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Tried adding songs numerous ways, nothing. Walk away for a bit, come back, now I can add songs.
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Message was edited by: tinajoytinajoy wrote:
I have an older ipod (one of the first generations!?) that I have downloaded songs from itunes years ago; however, those songs are not in my itune library.
Copying from iPod to Computer threads...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1300144
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=797432󂫸
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=809624&tstart=0
Also these useful internet articles...
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/
http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/02/how-to-get-music-off-your-ipod/
http://playlistmag.com/help/2005/01/2waystreet/
Cheers!
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Are the songs from the original Ipod downloaded onto the computer where you are going to add the playlist to the new Ipod?
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I have bought a new ipod touch and when i went to sync my music library on to it only a few songs went over, the ones that didnt had a ! next to them. I had no problem when using my last ipod touch but i was using a pc at the time not a mac though.
Hi there,
This usually meas that iTunes can't find the original files. I would recommend taking a look at the article below for some tips on locating that lost media.
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1408
-Griff W.
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