Comments | corvideye: iTunes AGH

corvideye

iTunes AGH

Dec 23, 2008 15:15

Okay, ye tech-savvy, I need your help... I had a series of unexplained computer crashes today, after which I went to re-open iTunes... it took a weirdly long time to load and put up a progress window saying it was opening iTunes library.xml... This took a very, very long time, and fearing it was all going to freeze again, I foolishly clicked the ( Read more... )

snafu, computers

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corvideye December 24 2008, 02:38:25 UTC

So I did "add to library" everything in the Music folder, and that seems to have brought all the music back, at least (though now all with the "date added" of today, which is mildly annoying, but I can cope). What d'you spose would happen if I do the same with the previous version of library? (I'm scared I will lose all tunes I added since Oct...don't know if this would contain the playlists or not.)

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corvideye December 24 2008, 02:53:31 UTC

All playlists still gone. Whyohwhy had I not backed this up...so stupid!

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ariadne3 December 24 2008, 02:59:39 UTC

Last time I experienced Computer Crash of Doom, I recreated my whole iTunes library bit by bit, importing music from the music folder. Good to know there may be an easier way.
If there is an easier way, I would certainly not recommend wasting spending time recreating the damn thing piece by piece. If need be though, I can attest to its slow effectiveness.