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MrKnickerbocker
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I did once. I found a program to pull those songs off of my iPod, reintroduce them into iTunes (with many hours of renaming and refiling), and then stored the entire library on an external hard drive. I feel for you, it's a real pain in the ass.
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MrKnickerbocker
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Good morning! I'm going to see a pre-release of The Hobbit 3 tonight!
So....are you on a mac or pc? iTunes is the program that sees your music, but the music folders/files are actually stored in a (somewhat) generic space.
Probably something like c:\users\your user name\music\itunes\itunes media
If you tell me what version of windows you are on I can help you pinpoint where the music is. Then you just reinstall iTunes and import the folder to it.
May not even need a reinstall. The library file may be corrupt. Just fire up a new library, import and see if that works.
I feel like the only person who doesn't import all music into a media player. I sort all mp3's into folders by myself, then when I wanna listen to a song, I just open the folder and play it from there. It'd be kinda tiring if I had everything imported, I'd have to scroll through thousands of artists/albums/songs...
It's not that bad. Itunes handles scrolling reasonably well. I did it your way for years, and it's much easier having one interface for everything.
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I did that up until last year. iTunes is much better for a person who spends time editing in every detail (e.g. composer) to the files so I switched to it.
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CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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I don't,
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If you're going to point out that Brigantium was a (common) Roman city name, why not use the more famous one?
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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Because that's the first image that comes up when I type "Brigantium" into Google, Perun.
Collin
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I'm on PC. I found all my music in the documents, so it shouldn't be too hard to put back on. The CD's will take awhile though. However Itunes crashes every time I open it now, and when I try to add music too it, it will just crash and delete the entire library. I've even tried to reinstall Itunes and that really makes no difference. I'm currently running some antivirus software and trying to clean up my computer so it runs faster. Maybe it will help.
That's a puzzle then. Reinstall should fix just about anything, unless your actual music files are corrupted somehow, which is unlikely. Can you do it with Windows Media Player? If it's a weird disk-reading problem or corrupt music files, WMP will fail too... but if WMP works, then a clean iTunes should also work.
How can you add music if it crashes on open? I'm not understanding something here I think.
Can you create a new library? Hold shift, double-click the icon like a normal start, and keep holding shift until you get a dialog to make a new library. That's as close as you get to "safe mode" on iTunes. If you can't do that on a clean install, something is deeply borked.
Collin
Chasing Ponce De Leon's Phantoms
Most of the time it crashes on open I got it to open twice then tried adding music then it just crashes. Windows media player is odd, I've used it many times before and right now it doesn't have half of my music. So I guess I'll be stuck with that for the time being. I have a whole lot of viruses right now and when I can get those off I shall try reinstalling Itunes again, if that doesn't work then I'll be getting a new computer.
Incorrect.
Collin, if only there was an Apple certified tech on the board somewhere. Oh wait, that's me.
Collin, what version of Windows are you running? What is your processor and RAM like? Are you the only user on your computer?
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