[Your Music] Title change: Should be "My Music"

Fairly simple idea... Change "Your Music" to "My Music". It seems more user friendly. Personally I enjoy reading that it's mine.

Updated: 2015-08-07Marked as new idea and edited the title slightly to make it easier to find via search. ;)
This idea is a re-post of this inactive idea.

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What do you do if all your music disappears into the Other folder......dreaded orange bar!

Hope this will help someone as there is clearly not much help from Apple nor this forum.
I am on vacation away from my home computer where my iTunes is. I turned on my iPod and scrolled down to Music and it showed "No Music." Went to "About" and saw that there were only 9GB of free space, so I felt for sure it was there because that's right at what I had when I last synced it, which was a couple days ago and it finished syncing with no problems. Went to the next "About" screen where you can see how much Audio, Video etc. etc. you have and it showed 0 Audio and The "Other" category had all the data in it. What happened to my music, and can I get it back on vacation without my iTunes on my computer at home? I tried the holding down of the Select middle button and the Menu button until the Apple logo appeared but that did not restore any Audio. Hope someone can help me out here.....Thanks
Re: Ipod Classic 160GB having issues, need help please?
Oct 25, 2011 5:06 AM (in response to Fishead)
Solved my issue and thought I might do someone a favor by posting the answer. If you wind up with NO MUSIC and find all your audio files have been synced into the OTHER folder on your iPod such as what happened to me, AND if you happen to be unlucky enough not to have access to your computer where your iTunes program would allow you to re-sync your iPod, here's what worked for me in a Windows7 OS.
1.You will have to find a computer that has enough storage to hold the amount of information stored on your iPod. In my case, 139GB!!! Download iTunes if it is not already on the system, or if it is, update to the latest software.
2. Plug your iPod into one of the USB ports.
3. Open iTunes if it does not open itself.
4. Select your iPod from the menu on the left and you should get a message that iTunes cannot read the iPod. Simply close that box. If you get a message that syncing your iPod will erase all content then decline the sync.
5. Open Computer and you should see your iPod as an external hard drive.
6. Open it and you will see some folders and a few files. The folders will likely look like they are a washed-out yellow instead of a deep yellow like you're accustomed to seeing. That threw me initially because as I was looking for the folder with @ 139GB, it was not there. Right click each folder, go to Properties and check the "Show hidden files" in the View menu. After that, the folders will appear dark yellow and as you hover over each one, you will see one that will have the full amount of data that was on your iPod before the mess started. Open that folder and you will see a bunch of other folders with strange names, like F00, F01 etc. etc. Do the Edit, Select All, right click and in Properties, View menu, check the Show Hidden Files again. All the folders that were that light yellow color will now turn deep yellow. Be sure to select show hidden files not only for the folder but all sub folders and files box that will come up....forgot to mention that earlier. Now all your folders and the files in them will be readable by iTunes.
7. The folders will all still be selected. If not, select them and then do either a copy/paste into iTunes Music Library or drag them over into that pane. The process will begin and likely take quite a while. In my case, several hours. When it is done, you will see all your music in iTunes along with the album art if you had any.
8. Now you will need to sync your iPod to that library, but before you do, you will need to Restore it. Simply select it from the left menu and click on the Restore iPod option. That will only take a few minutes and it will wipe your iPod clean. Before you do that, it is a good idea to MAKE SURE YOUR MUSIC IS ALL THERE!!! I also went to about a half dozen of the albums and tried playing a few songs just to be double sure. Proceed with the Restore, and when it is complete change the iPod name that will be in the small box on the same page as the Restore option and likely be something like"karens iPod" (whoever the computer belongs to will be the name there) to exactly what your iPod is called on your iTunes on your computer that it was originally synced to. I found that before I did this, it would not sync.
9. When you hit Sync, be patient because it took a minute or so before it actually began to sync. Then, it will be another few hours if you have as much music as I did for the sync to complete and depending on the speed of the computer you're using.
That's how I got all my music back and I am now a happy camper/listener again.,
I called Apple support and they were absolutely no help. Just told me I would have to re-sync to my iTunes even though I kept telling them that was 1,650 miles away at my house and not going to be possible. I even asked if the above process would work and they said they didn't know but "You could try it....." :-( At that time, I didn't have access to a computer with enough hard disc space on it yet so I called the Apple store in Louisville, KY which was 65 miles from where I was hoping that they might be able to help. After 2 calls and getting hung up in the same loop of menus that left me on hold for over 20 minutes long distance, I gave up and concluded that Apple and Support are two mutually exclusive terms and have no relationship to one another. This has been quite a nightmare, and if anything good has come of it aside from having my music back, it might be the learning process but I really feel that is a rather small reward for the time spent!
Not likely to be an Apple fan when considering my next purchase of home computer, laptop, nor the phone I am preparing to buy.
Hope this has helped someone.
Fishead
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I never throw anything away up to a point when it has become silly and then I have a cull. (This applies to the loft, the garage and the hard disk)
I always have (at least) two backups to external drives and by the end of a project also have a full backup to DVD.
I am a hobby photographer, so this isn't necessarily a good professional workflow!
I store work in progress within a folder structure that identifies just what it is, final folder being date stamped for the start date (eg D:\My Pictures\Photgraph Album Master\Family\Bob\20100715 Farnborough airshow)
Photographs of value are then kept within the folder with a date stamp and version number if they change within a day (eg 20100823 Alexander in cockpit 2).
Photographs I haven't touched remain with their camera-specified name.
Lightroom, which I use, doesn't know about external drives or DVD backups. (Maybe it should, but it would become confusing)
Bob

TS3212 All your music in one place. This is what's showing when I downloaded the new itunes but will not go any further. Have been here for 20 minutes? Do I need to start over? Or is there something else I can do to get to so I can click next for the

I've been trying to down load the new itunes version and I'm stuck on All your music in one place but now it's been stuck there for over 20 minutes. Do I need to start over or is this normal?

The sort fields should generally be empty unless you've putting in custom values to sort solo artists by their surnames. You can apply common changes to thousands of tracks at once, just don't apply the wrong change because there is no undo.
It is a good idea to backup before undertaking large scale changes. See this backup tip for a suggested approach.
tt2
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Saved "Your Music" music has disappeared in Windows client

HI All the saved albums i have in my "Your Music" collection have disappeared from the Windows (7) client (1.0.8.59.gee82e7e6). They still appear in the Android client. What happened ? ThanksJon

When you open windows explorer check option Views and set it to Details so you should be able to see file name, size, type, artist, Album title, year, track number and duration.
You can open windows media player, go to library and check if you can edit each file listed there.

Allow Drag-and-drop Sorting of Your Music

With playlists, I love how you can drag and drop tracks to rearrange your playlist.
However, I've noticed the only sortings you can have for Your Music (songs) are by the titles (track, artist, time, album, added). For Albums and Artists, the only sortings possible are alphabetical, recently added, or most played. I'd really love to rearrange songs myself so my favorites are always on top.
Spotify should have let users drag and drop to rearrange songs in Your Music (songs) just like we can for regular playlists. This feature should also be extended to songs shown once you select an albums or artist under Your Music.

The remove op the drag and drop an all other ways to simply move tracks up and down in a playlist or between playlist is theworst improvment EVER.You must be able to customize the play order in a playlist. The QUEUE idear is toaly reduclus an very confusing!! Uptil this spring it was easy to set the order tracks played within a play listnow its a total nightmare

Making us able to add LOCAL FILES to the new "Your Music"

First of, I'm a huge fan of the new layout.
But as the title says I'd like to add my own beloved local files to the "Your Music". I don't see why this shouldn't be a possibilty. This way I don't need to have one master playlist, I can just have all the music I like under "Your Music -> Songs".
Also, as suggested earlier, changing the font size could be usable to many people.

Simply put: give us a totally seamless integration of local files and subscribed albums/songs in "your music" or whichever name you choose ... Call it "the bucket" and I don't care, I'm here for the functionality, not the marketing.
I mean: ONE container, with all items displayed (album covers and so on), searchable and playable exactly the same way.
I'm a long time music passionate, and I have a personal collection of hundreds of CDs, which majority is unavailable on spotify. So ATM I'm using iTunes (and iPhone Music app) to listen to my ripped own stuff, and spotify for all the rest. Sounds like a no-brainer to anyone? It's not impossible, iTunes does that exceptionally well.
This is THE ONLY aspect that actually prevents me from subscribing.

[Desktop][Your Music] Search within Your Music only, much faster

If I want to jump to a song in my saved music (Your Music) I don't want to have to wade through all the other artists on spotify, playlists, profiles, etc. that you get when you do a full search. Furthermore I don't want to wait the minimum half-second round trip for the search results to appear. It makes the whole operation feel sluggish and puts me off using search. Try typing a word into iTunes search. The moment you lift your finger off the key it's already found the matching song. As far as I can tell that's simply not possible in Spotify. I'm not sure what the best design is. I think there should be a way to do either a global search, or a search within your music. The latter should be possible to run entirely on your computer/device to make it nice and zippy.

Also, Winamp had an awesome shortcut for this: the J key. It brought up a window where you could literally type a letter or two from any part of the title, artist or album that you want. Hit enter and it starts playing. Or hit alt-q and it's queued. See it in the search results but it's not selected? Press the up and down arrows to select. Total time required - about three seconds. That's the kind of search ergonomics I would like to see in Spotify.

How many songs are checked in Your Music?

I am wondering if there is a quick way to know how many songs are checked in "Your Music"? I tried to select all (ctrl+a) but didnt see a number. I have heard there is a 10,000 song limit. Is this still the case? I use the check feature to denote preffered songs on albums, and keep track of what I have listened too. I do not want to invest this time if I am going to hit the 10,000 mark and I wont let me add any more or worse yet remove an old check to add a new one! Thanks

Hello:
When you use the ctrl+a and all songs are highlighted, if you start to drag all tracks as you would when adding to a playlist, does a small context window open next to your mouse pointer informing you how many tracks you are dragging?
And sadly yes currently there is a 10,000 track limit in YOUR MUSIC. I still use playlists to add stuff and keep me aware of new things I add by date added to playlists and to know when something needs listening to next.
Now you can always uncheck content added under either SONGS or ALBUMS under YOUR MUSIC. And add new content each time if you are wanting to use it as a way to keep up with new stuff not listened to yet. Just click on either the tracks or albums check marks and click on the X on mouse hover to change them from a check mark to an X to remove those items, and you should be able to change out content that way.

Can you save your itunes and songs onto an external hard drive so that incase your computer crashes you will still have all your music?

Can you save your itunes and songs onto an external hard drive so that incase your computer crashes you will still have all your music?

The procedures below are for "moving" your library but as long as you don't delete it from your internal drive you are basically backing up.
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Simple answer: Copy your whole iTunes folder to the external drive. For subsequent backups you might want to learn about cloning and using a tool that only does incremental backups of recently changed items rather than copying all your files each time.

HT1364 how do you get your music from itunes over to your inano?

does anyone know how to get your music from your computer over to your inano?

You should really read the manual.
Open itunes, connect ipod, select what you want, sync.

Call me silly but how do you get your music off your ipod....

My old computer crashed, lucky me all my music was on my ipod, but now how do i get it out!!! and on to a new computer?? help

Hello there,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
There are several ways you can pull the music off your iPod and onto iTunes. The first link below provides step-by-step instructions for the direct method if you have a PC as well as a few third party applications (for both the Mac and PC) if you choose to go that route instead. You can also do a simple Google search for "copy music from iPod to computer" and you should receive a number of sites that can help you out.
Just make sure that when you have your iPod plugged into your computer, that you don't hit "Erase and Sync" before completing the task of copying your music over.
Also, if you have any purchased music, you will probably have to re-authorize your computer by heading to the Store drop down menu and choosing "Authorize computer."
[5 Ways to Copy Music OFF your iPod and onto iTunes|http://www.metaphoriclabs.com/articles/5-ways-to-copy-music-off-your-ipo d-windows-mac-os-x>
Here are a few more helpful sites.
[Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide|http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipo d-to-computer]
Or
[How to copy songs your iPod to your PC|http://lifehacker.com/software/ipod/how-to-copy-songs-from-your-ipod-to-your -pc-105256.php]
Also, here is an article for the direct method that is for both Windows Vista and XP.
http://ipodtips-tricks.blogspot.com/2008/10/howto-transfer-music-from-ipodto-itu nes.html
Hope this helps.
B-rock

Backing up your music

After experiencing a crash with the update to ITunes today, I realized I better back up my music files seperate from my hardrive.. Just wondering what method most of you use to backup a large music library?
Thanks for your help.
Windows XP

I use the very basic 'copy entire music folder + iTunes files to external hard drive' method.
Here, Courtesy of Buegie
Well....You can Use iTunes for Backing up your Music. It works fine for music files BUT: I prefer more control and completeness over my backup process, and it is also important to note that a large limitation of using iTunes to manage the backup is that the iTunes method does not maintain the two meta-data files (iTunes Library.itl & iTunes Music Library.xml) where your Playlists, Ratings, Play Counts, etc. are stored. See: What are the iTunes Library files?
If you are heavily invested in your Library data (Playlists, Play Counts, Ratings, Last Played, Date Added, etc.), then:
it is critical that you also make multiple backups of your ‘iTunes Library.itl’ file.
If your music is located under one common Folder (e.g.-‘iTunes’), then it is easiest to physically copy that folder and all its sub-folders in one simple process. It can be done quickly, and incrementally – several times a day, when necessary. In the case of any data loss, just re-copy your entire (or partial) music library back to wherever it was, placing it in the main Folder that the previous iTunes expected. Along with the .ITL meta-data file, this completes a full ‘restore’ of your music to the time of your last backup.
Use of a backup software program will greatly help. It will allow you to easily perform incremental backups of only the files that have changed. WinXP has such a facility built-in. I use a free program called FileSync ( http://www.fileware.com ). There are many out there. Some use Zipped files or proprietary formats, others use standard file formats. I like FileSync as it uses normal file formats that can be viewed/managed via any Windows program or utility.
Here's a list of possible ways to copy your music files from your main iTunes computer to another storage medium for backup purposes.
1) Use an External Hard Drive to store the complete iTunes meta-data files and underlying Music Folder structure and songs from your main computer. They are quite cheap now, for their storage volume. This is my preferred main medium.
If you have two computers:
2a) Connect them through a router
2b) Connect them using a Direct (w/Mac) or Crossover (PC/PC) Ethernet cable (See: http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3001.html)
2c) Connect them via a USB-to-USB Network Bridge. See: here as an example.
Copy the files and folders from one computer to the other. Use the second PC as your backup repository.
3) Burn several DVDs (at 4.7+ GBs each) with the music data files and store them safely. Re-writable ones are good for backup purposes (if your DVD drive can manage these).
4) Burn 6x more on CDs (at 700MB each) than in #3 above and store them safely in more space Re-writable ones are good for backup purposes (if your CD drive can manage these).
5) Use a larger USB Flash drive (1GB - 4GB) to store the files only if you have a small amount ripped music or have multiple and/or jumbo USB drives at your disposal that will fit your music library.
6) Use the second internal hard drive (if available) of your PC -- not optimum, as you really want to physically separate the storage of backups from the originals, but good as a tertiary storage device.
By keeping only one copy of your music (other than on the iPod), you are not truly 'backed-up' and are running a high risk of losing your music. Music files on just the iPod and the computer is not considered having any backup. If you cannot store your complete music files on the computer, then create and maintain two external sets.
You need at least three sets of your music:
-- One full set on the PC within iTunes (on internal HD or ExHD)
-- One full set on an separate external backup medium (CD/DVD/ExHD/other)
-- One (full or partial) set on the iPod
It is a good policy to backup all your important data. It is a very smart policy to back it up on more than one medium.
External hard drives now run less than $100 for 200-250GBs of storage. Very cheap backup insurance, indeed. See: http://dealnews.com/categories/Computer/Storage/Hard-Drives/USB-Hard-Drives/254. html

Playlists vs Your Music

As a new user, I suspect that at some time Playlists were part of "Your Music", because the Spotify Help Solutions page says Your Music is "the place in Spotify where you’ll find your playlists [emphasis mine] and the songs, albums, and artists you’ve added."* However, on the current Mac client "PLAYLISTS" is an entirely separate category from "YOUR MUSIC". And when I add to my playlists, the albums I add don't show up under "Your Music" I do almost all my listening through playlists. I still haven't figured out the value of doing the extra step of adding an album to "Your Music" after I've added to one of my playlists. Am I doing something wrong--should music in my playlists automatically show up in "Your Music"? Can someone who has a similar usage pattern to me (almost exclusively Playlists, but my want to randomly select old albums to add to my current Rotation playlist)) help me with whether and how to use "Your Music"? *https://support.spotify.com/ca-en/problems/#!/article/what-is-your-music

Playlists are located in Your Music if you're on a mobile device. But not on the desktop. I use playlists almost exclusively simply because Your Music sucks for albums. For keeping tracks of good songs from 2015 I have a playlist called "songs from 2015" and ditto for albums. And I definitely don't think the music in my playlists should end up in Your Music. Now, there used to be a way to view playlists as an album list with artwork (by pressing ctrl-g / cmd-g) but for some reason Spotify removed that function two years ago and never brought it back. So now playlists basically suck for albums too. Go figure. I'd like Spotify to tweak Your Music by copying the Itunes way of organizing music. A list of artists to the left, and their albums to the right. And add a number of viewing options for playlists too while you're at it. Make it flexible!

Your Music Saved Albums library disappearing

Recently I've been using the "saved album" section found under the Your Music tab but have had all the albums I saved disappear even the albums that were ticked for offline play. I press the save album button which would save the album under the "saved album" section, in addition the artist of the album would also appear under "saved artist." I would go on and continue saving albums and ticking some of them for offline play, but after a couple of days I noticed the entire library under saved albums and artist disappeared, and as for the saved playlists they were not affected by this erasing. So I believed it to be a one-time occurrence and re-saved my favorite albums and re-ticked some for offline play, but after a week my saved albums were erased again including the ones I ticked for offline play, and like last time saved playlist was not affected, I even regained the storage space I used up to save the offline play albums. This is the problem I'm having with the Spotify app on my IPhone 5s, I would appreciate any advice and solutions to fix this issue, thank you.

I had exactly the same problem. spotify version is 1.5.0.2728 my iPhone OS version is 6.1.6 (model is iPhone 3GS)
It appeared brutally in the middle of using the app. I was navigating through the interface and all of the sudden all my saved albums were not there any more.
Sounds like a critical bug to me.
The only workaround I found was to uninstall the app and reinstall it, with the hassle of resynchronizing all my library.
But after restore, there is indeed another issue :
For every saved album which contained a song which was included in one of my playlist, the album comes back duplicated : one version with only the songs contained in my playlists, and the other version with the full album. Spotify app should detect duplicates !
So I guess you guys have to fix two bugs :-)
Could you tell us if you're working on it ? Do you have a bug tracker ? It's kind of annoying and yes we pay for using spotify.

[iOS][Your Music] Give us a way to browse our "premium zone" offline music

I used to be able to easily find my offline albums on the go by searching for the little green symbol next to an album or playlist name. Now that symbol has been removed, and there is apparently no way to navigate the new offline music section beyond "Listen Now" and "suggested for you." What is the point of the offline music tab if it has actually taken away the ability to browse your offline music, and what is unique about this apparently functionless "premium zone?" Cheers for reading. This is on Iphone5s, on version 8.4

Updated: 2015-07-14Hello and thanks for the feedback!
A similar idea has also been suggested here:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Your-Music-Offline-tab-to-show-only-synced-content-Mobile-Apps/idi-p/735017
Add your kudos and comments there please! ;)
You should still be able to browse your offline music when entering the 'Library' tab and filter the sections for offline content.

[Your Music] Title change: Should be "My Music"

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