iTunes/iPod issue

[G-Lexington]

In the middle of burning a CD, iTunes sort of crapped out on me. This has happened a couple of times before, and usually doesn't mean much more than a wasted CD-R and a reboot. But this time, something squirrelly happened with iTunes, and it couldn't import my library upon rebooting. iTunes then went through the long process of recreating my music library, getting thumbnails for album artwork, etc etc. Once that was finally done, iTunes was up again. It APPEARS to have all my music on it, but all my playlists are gone, and the playcounts have all reverted back to zero.

I know there's a way to restore my iTunes library using my iPod (which still has all the playlist info etc), but I'll be damned if I can figure it out. Upon searching through the "help" section, all I get are methods to restore the iPod using iTunes, not the other way around. Anyone have any hints as how to proceed here? Technically, I can attempt rebuilding the playlists, and the playcount data isn't really important, but with as much music as I have in there, I don't relish the idea of rebuilding those playlists.

Lex

 

[Aaron4Film]

This is a bone i have to pick with iTunes. I've experienced this a serveral times and from my experience you need to build you iTunes playlist again. Sometimes I've been able to transfer them to a new computer. But it wasn't point and click. My advice, uninstall iTunes and reinstall the lastest version from the website. If anyone knows a different way I would love to know. I could use it!
I've been doing this for years though and this is just a tick it seams to have.
Best of Luck

 

[G-Lexington]

OK, before I do something I regret...

I uninstall iTunes. Get version 10.47.583 or whatever the latest version is, and install it. And then...what? Plug in the iPod, and it'll automatically move stuff over? Or am I still stuck rebuilding the playlists?

Lex

 

[Aaron4Film]

I've done that before with no problems.

If you open iTunes and nothing is there make sure to let it know your directory where the music is....
usally
C:\Users\Your Account Name\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music

And then if it doesnt bring your playlist back to life, then.. you have work todo.
Sorry.

But when you plug in your iPod its going to back up all changes from your computer to your iPod. I would be nice if they would make the option to go backwards for this kind of thing. Ive lost my playlist like 4 times. Sometimes you get lucky.

 

[sexsomniac]

I use xilisoft-ipodrip to backup my music. It's basically let's me backup mine in Explorer fashion in a sense that it allows drag and drop. You can drag and drop into the ipod as well as drag and drop out of it It's relatively fast too compare to winscp which require arduous jailbreaking and technical mumbojumbo. Well, actually, I don't mind the latter but winscip took me around 4 hours to backup 8gb ipod which is truly pain in the ass. You can download xilisoft trial version from download.com if you want to try.

 

[G-Lexington]

OK, I've uninstalled iTunes, and reinstalled it. All seems fine. (iTunes is currently empty, but that's to be expected.) I plugged in the iPod, but have the "auto sync" turned off. Nothing happened. Do I now allow it to sync? Will it pull the info from my iPod back into iTunes, and not wipe out what's on the iPod in an attempt to sync my iPod with the blank iTunes?

Lex

 

[G-Lexington]

Never mind, I tried that. No go. It wanted to erase my iPod and sync it with iTunes (which wasn't gonna happen, since there's nothing in iTunes currently). I'll have to find another way.

Lex

 

[andysayshi]

You need a third party utility to pull music back off the iPod, like sexsomniac mentioned above.

Here's a step-by-step:

http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/ipodsupport/copyoff/index.shtml

 

[scains]

No you don't.

Here, try this:

 

[Aaron4Film]

No you don't.

Here, try this:

Holy Crap!
Thanks for posting that.
Great to know!

I feel kinda dumb that i just learned that from what sounded like a 12 years old.

 

[andysayshi]

^ Worst. Tutorial. Ever!

(But good to know, all the same!)

 

[scains]

^ I know, not the best... but it was the first one I found. Clearly.

 

[Adrock-JD]

I can't deal with this fucking shit anymore.
iTunes won't let me burn cds, it quits just a bit into burning, and I've read on the iTunes forums that uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes has absolutely no effect.
They need to send a new update to fix the problem.
I'm not going through this mess for nothing.
Fuck Fuck Fuck

 

[scains]

Could you not just use Windows Media Player? I have no idea how to fix that, I have never had a problem. Sorry.

 

[sheep]

If you had a Mac use Pod to Mac. its free.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10912159