Help with itunes!!

[ohbooth]

Okay, so when I opened it today, all of my playlists were GONE, along with pretty much all of my music/videos. There are less than 100 songs on there all of a sudden, and NONE of my playlists. When I hooked up the iPod, it said that it was synced with ANOTHER library, and it can only be synced with one at a time. BUT I have never hooked it up to another computer/library so I don't get what happened...

Any advice? Do I have to re-import ALL the music? Dude, that will take forever!!

It said if I re-synced it that I would erase everything on the iPod and replace it with this new library that keeps coming up (sans all my good stuff), so I haven't done that yet, but I want to add more music because I moved my music library onto an external HD, and need to re-import some things.

Comments

[bobbinrob.livejournal.com]

oh thats so weird, all your other computer programs are ok?
idk maybe you could try a system restore?

[ohbooth.livejournal.com]

I think I figured out what the problem is, I wasn't signed in anymore, trouble is, now I have NO clue what my id/password is, and it isn't in my 'remember' thing. *sigh*

[ohbooth.livejournal.com]

Nope, that's not it. I signed in now, but yeah, I still got nothing! Stupid ass iTunes! *stabs*

[bobbinrob.livejournal.com]

thats soo weird! can you rmove the program and reinstall it?

[ohbooth.livejournal.com]

Hmm, but will that kill the ones I have BOUGHT from them?

[bobbinrob.livejournal.com]

I dont know? do you have them saved?

[ohbooth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do, I found them in the iTunes library. I am just gonna back that upo and then mess with it.

Hey, can I email you my rant I told you I was gonna do about last nights episode? Let me know if you think it is what I mean (cause you know what I mean to say LOL). Where are you at? where should I email it to if that is okay?

[bobbinrob.livejournal.com]

Im at home and email away my dear!! ;p

[ohbooth.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) Just sent :D

Let me know what you think, if I am eloquent enough and get my point across :)

[titheniel.livejournal.com]

Oh wow that's weird. I think you have to import the whole library, there has to be a library file into the itunes folder. Hhmmm. I will ask my roommate, lol, she knows more about this shit than I do! *g*

*loves you*

[ohbooth.livejournal.com]

There is, but I can only import one artist at a time, it won't let me import the 'music' file in the iTunes library *sigh*

And I am stupid and when I was ripping all my CD's previously, I ripped them in the default file type, and that was .wma, when I figured out that .mp3 is more compatible (and didn't need to be converted when you import into iTunes) I started doing them that way, but that is only a few albums, the bulk of them are still .wma format, and to 'convert' them EACH SONG AT A TIME is SO long, it SUCKS!

Thank hun. I may just have to do it the old fashioned way *face!palm* wonderful

[insaneboingo.livejournal.com]

That's happened to me one before. I found out it was 2 separate problems. One was, I had downloaded the 'new' version of iTunes and it installed thus messing up the syncing process. (there's a way to get around that, you should manually sync things, don't rely on iTunes to do it)

And I'm pretty sure that the other reasons had something to do with my old ExHD. I don't remember exactly what it was.. right now.

I'm sorry I don't have any advice.

[briethehippo.livejournal.com]

one thing for future reference is that i suggest you change the settings in itunes to 'manual' adding, if you haven't got that already.

i don't know why all your playlists dissapeared. it's never happened to me. when i disconnect my external harddrive (which has all my music on it) the playlists are still there but nothing will play.

[ohbooth.livejournal.com]

Well see, with manual adding, doesn't it 'erase and readd' the songs each time? So that means I would have to have EVERYTHING hooked up every time?

Yeah, that happened, but nope, the playlists themselves are gone *sigh*

[briethehippo.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, erase and readd' the songs each time is what the syncing option does. It automatically adds to your ipod anything you've got in itunes that the ipod doesn't have.

The manual option keeps everything you've already got on your ipod and allows you to PICK what you want to go on your ipod. Like, only wanting to add one song (instead of the 50 new ones like syncing you do)

The manual option also allows you to take stuff from other people's itunes if you connect up to their computer.

[ohbooth.livejournal.com]

Hmm, okay, I kind of get it now. Man, it is so confusing!

So it will just ADD to it if I manually sync? I thought that was what happened with the automatic sync *sigh* man, this is hard!

[briethehippo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when I first got an ipod I had to get my brother to explain it to me a couple times.

Not with manual sync, no. You can pick and mix with manual. However, it's a free-for-all with auto sync. That's how I see it.

[ohbooth.livejournal.com]

Oh cool got it thanks :)

[sweetgirl7808.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry I have no clue about itunes. :o(
But I hope you get it fixed!

*huggles*

[rose-janice.livejournal.com]

What she said. :(

<3

[ohbooth.livejournal.com]

Aww, sweetie thank you!

[kes1807.livejournal.com]

Awww *hugs* hope you get it sorted, sorry I don't know the answer.

[ohbooth.livejournal.com]

No worries, I am alright, I just have to re-import, which I hoped I didn;t have to, but thems the breaks apparently

[medusa81.livejournal.com]

I know nothing, but I hope you get it sorted!
Good luck bb!

[ohbooth.livejournal.com]

thanks darling, I just have to re-import, I hoped I wouldn't have to, but apparently I do :)