iTunes Help

laurenb

Ugh...I've done something screwy (technical term).

I have 2 laptops - one Vista and one XP

I had all of my music stored on the Vista machine and was using my iPod on it.

Now that I have an iPhone, I used PC Sync to get (or try to get) all of my music files over to the XP machine so I can sync my iPhone to that machine.

Upon syncing, it seems that many of the files cannot be located. I know they're on my XP machine somewhere, but I'm not sure if the file format went over correctly or if something else happened. I tried "add this folder to library" and only portions worked right (no rhyme or reason that I can see).


I thought there was something in iTunes that will search your whole machine for music files and then add them to your library. Was I imagining that?

HALP!

shishkab

isn't that the "consolidate library" function?

mattyblunt

shishkab wrote: isn't that the "consolidate library" function?

I thought so too, but that didn't do it.

prospect249

ugh. I've done something seriously screwed up and I seem to just be getting deeper and deeper.

I figured I'd delete my whole library and start again, but you can't seem to do that either. Fuckity!

filmlover44

Your music should be in one of two places, 1) Your user directory YouMusic or for things you downloaded from ITunes - MusicItunesITunes Music.

You can copy music back off of your IPod as long as you didn't download it from ITunes using a program like TouchCopy http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/.

I don't think that you can copy music you purchased from Itunes from one computer to another, but you can burn it to a CD and then import it to another PC. I haven't had much luck doing this with a Vista system though since Vista pretty much still sucks.

david777

is that free software? that might work...although I think I am getting closer to resolving (if not, that sound you hear is me losing my mind).

I don't buy through iTunes, so I don't need to do that.

filmlover44

It's not free, but it does have a trial period! DO NOT plug your ipod into itunes until you have finished copying your music if you are syncing.

mephisto

iTunes can identify all duplicates for you, but they can't remove them = stupidity