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13 March 2008

iTunes help needed →[More:]My home iTunes crashed. Much of the music I have purchased from iTunes was on my work computer. The other day I backed all this music up - burning it to CDs.

The problem I seem to have (because I am admittedly clueless about these things) is that none of the album information transferred with the music and I so don't want to enter it all in manually (12 ripped CDs).

Anyone got any advice for me? I know I do everything wrong and probably using the most ineffective means possible - so any and all help is appreciated.

Lastly, what about music purchased on my home computer and not burned to my iPod. Is it stored on my computer somewhere? I really want my La Vie En Rose soundtrack that has now disappeared.

I keep most of my music on an external hard drive but I had been negligent in backing it up.

Lastly, lastly, I don't buy much of my music from iTunes anymore. Mostly because of all the problems. I highly recommend Amazon's MP3 store.

Okay, thanks in advance. Mucho gracias!

post by: Lola_G at: 10:19 | 5 comments

It sounds like your backup involved creating audio CDs instead of making copies of the iTunes AAC files.
If this is the case, then you're not going to be able to get the music from these backup CDs.
If the CDs do contain AAC files, then you need to load them into iTunes and re-authorise them. The Album information should be there.

If all fails, you could give Apple a ring.
They seem to offer a one-time facility to re-download purchased iTunes.
lifehacker has a little more info

posted by seanyboy 13 March | 10:24

I can get the music but not the song information (artist, title, album). If its there, iTunes isn't reading it. But I think you are right in your assessment that I burned them incorrectly...

posted by Lola_G 13 March | 10:27

Have you tried using the "Get CD Track Names" (located under the "Advanced" menu on a Mac)? I know that sounds really simple, but it should replace everything for you.

posted by Medium Format 13 March | 10:52

Yeah, tried that. Didn't work.

posted by Lola_G 13 March | 11:40

iTunes keeps an index file of all your music, it is most likely that this file was corrupted and that your actual music files are still where they were. On Mac the default location is user/music/itunes, not sure where it is on Windows but its likely to be in your user folder somewhere.

posted by doctor_negative 13 March | 11:52

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