Itunes lost much of my data

The other night, i decided to look through my music collection on itunes, and when the program booted up, it didn't have any music in it. It had me do the startup stuff like make it search for Mp3s and all, and when i did that, many of the songs were missing their art, it didn't recognize any of them as purchased, and all of my beautiful playlists were gone. (also, it counted some counter strike sound effects as songs) The worst part is that i had finally almost rated all of them, but now the majority of them are missing their stars. Is there any way i can get the stars back?

Hmmm. Did this just happen randomly or did you do something with your computer before this happened?

Did it come up with any messages or anything? Saying something along the lines of "You need an itunes library file, would you like to create one or locate an existing one?"?

Because it sounds like a problem with your library file.

I have had so many similar problems over the years with iTunes. If I were you I would just get a Zune. I does a really good job of keeping valuable information about your taste in music and really personalizes your music experience.

"I have had so many similar problems over the years with iTunes. If I were you I would just get a Zune. I does a really good job of keeping valuable information about your taste in music and really personalizes your music experience. "

Before I got this Ipod about 3 years or so ago i debated as to whether i should get an Ipod or a Zune, and ultimately chose the Ipod for a number of reasons.

Why do people rate their songs on iTunes?!

To remind them if they like it or not?

And why is there a one star rating?

Why the fuck would someone have a song they hate so much they would rate it one star?!

Well, I lost £25 worth of songs when I switched computers, bringing the hard drive over didn't seem to make iTunes care.

"Why do people rate their songs on iTunes?!To remind them if they like it or not?And why is there a one star rating?Why the fuck would someone have a song they hate so much they would rate it one star?!"

OLD MEDIA FORMATS WIN AGAIN! BWAAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!

*hoards vinyl*

"MattyFTM said:

"Did it come up with any messages or anything? Saying something along the lines of "You need an itunes library file, would you like to create one or locate an existing one?"?Because it sounds like a problem with your library file."

Thats exactly what happened. Is there a way to fix it?

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"Well, I lost £25 worth of songs when I switched computers, bringing the hard drive over didn't seem to make iTunes care."

"Oriental_Jams said:

"Well, I lost £25 worth of songs when I switched computers, bringing the hard drive over didn't seem to make iTunes care."

It isn't saved to your account, kind of like on your Xbox Live account?"

This has happened to me a couple of times, but it isn't really a big deal, since I keep all of my iPod music in a folder labeled "iPod music." When shit goes down, I can just drag it back into iTunes, update genius and re-sync overnight.

"Snail said:

"Why do people rate their songs on iTunes?!To remind them if they like it or not?And why is there a one star rating?Why the fuck would someone have a song they hate so much they would rate it one star?!"

The reason i rate mine is so that i can easily make playlists of all of my favorite songs without picking them out manually. Theres a feature called "smart playlist" and it allows you to simply make a playlist out of, for example, songs that have 4 stars, are within (or if you want, without) the rock genre, and limit it to songs of 4 minutes or more, or 3 minutes or less, or whatever. I find it really convinient. BTW i do have a few one star songs on my ipod but they are there for sentimental reasons, or because they were part of a cd that has great songs on it and doesn't work without the entirety of the album."

"I'm kind of a list whore"

Is it at all possible to import my library from my Ipod to my computer? If it is possible, then it will be easy to fix this whole problem.

"Is it at all possible to import my library from my Ipod to my computer? If it is possible, then it will be easy to fix this whole problem."

Worst case scenario ; download the missing songs again for free.

"Karmum said:

"Oriental_Jams said:

"Well, I lost £25 worth of songs when I switched computers, bringing the hard drive over didn't seem to make iTunes care."

It isn't saved to your account, kind of like on your Xbox Live account?"

Purchases are actually saved to your account, you just have to authorize each PC to use them. You can authorize up to 5 PCs at a time.So... some people here need to use the iTunes help documents a little more often."

I've had this before, but I just looked at my itunes folder and there was a lone iTunes LIbrary file. I double clicked on it.

"The other night, i decided to look through my music collection on itunes, and when the program booted up, it didn't have any music in it. It had me do the startup stuff like make it search for Mp3s and all, and when i did that, many of the songs were missing their art, it didn't recognize any of them as purchased, and all of my beautiful playlists were gone. (also, it counted some counter strike sound effects as songs) The worst part is that i had finally almost rated all of them, but now the majority of them are missing their stars. Is there any way i can get the stars back?"

Bummer.

"Wolverine said:

"I have had so many similar problems over the years with iTunes. If I were you I would just get a Zune. I does a really good job of keeping valuable information about your taste in music and really personalizes your music experience. "

Aside from adding some random music I don't want on it, it really is a pretty good alternative to iTunes. I would use it, if last.fm was compatible with it."

"Kajaah117 said:

"Karmum said:

"Oriental_Jams said:

"Well, I lost £25 worth of songs when I switched computers, bringing the hard drive over didn't seem to make iTunes care."

It isn't saved to your account, kind of like on your Xbox Live account?"

Purchases are actually saved to your account, you just have to authorize each PC to use them. You can authorize up to 5 PCs at a time.So... some people here need to use the iTunes help documents a little more often."

So shouldn't he be able to disable it on one of his other five PCs and then enable it on the one he wants? What's the process for that?"