Re: [microsound] iTunes just ate a bunch of my unreleased music

[Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

marc_mcnulty (mærðnír) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You may need to lookup FairPlay DRM, is what Apple uses.  The problem 
> seems to happen when iTunes is launched, it parses its database looking 
> for new or changed files.  If for example you have copied some DRM'd 
> files from one machine to another and they are not authorized several 
> odd things can happen; for some reason .aif(f) or .wav files can get 
> unlinked in this process.  I have not had the deletion problem, but I do 
> think it's possible.

i don't think this is what got me. the files were there, i group-edited 
them to change the artist (to me), and as soon as i pressed enter they 
disappeared from the playlist, disappeared from my ~/Music folder, 
disappeared from my harddrive completely, gone.

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