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iTunes Help — Brooklynian

iTunes Help

laurenb
laurenb
edited November -1 in The Lounge / Random Stuff
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!

Comments

  • shishkab
    shishkab
    isn't that the "consolidate library" function?
  • mattyblunt
    mattyblunt
    shishkab wrote: isn't that the "consolidate library" function?
    I thought so too, but that didn't do it.
  • prospect249
    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
    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
    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
    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
    mephisto
    iTunes can identify all duplicates for you, but they can't remove them = stupidity
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