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
frey | live art with machines | http://www.frey.co.nz
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