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

[bryan garcia <brymoxine@xxxxxxxxx>]

two moar cents

i wonder if you may have had your ipod or any other portable device hooked up to your machine.   it sometimes happens that itunes gets confused and moves some files around, when you didn't actually want it to.   though i imagine you've already looked everywhere.    

another possibility, if you don't have time machine, and cant revert,
is to look at your itunes archived library.   you'll need to go to help menu, but what i've been doing to conserve space is deleting the history of archived libraries, and you can revert to one of your old ones if you don't delete them as i do. 

i do group editing as well, and there  is the auto complete function that suggests artist name as you are typing.   i wonder if instead of labeling the songs as you wanted,  it chose one of the auto complete titles, in which case your music might have gotten mislabeled and is now sorted as "mili vanilli, or rick astley or something.   check all the band names associated with what you were tentatively titling your music.

sounds like user error to me. 

best regards,

b




--- On Mon, 6/30/08, Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [microsound] iTunes just ate a bunch of my unreleased music
> To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 7:55 AM
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> damian stewart | +31 6 5902 5782 |  damian@xxxxxxxxxx
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