BEWARE: serious crash in iTunes 4!!!!!

[Todd Masco]

Michel Coste wrote:
> When I relaunched iTunes all the library info remaining was about the
> remaining mp3 tunes!!!!!
> ALL info concerning aac tunes had disappeared!!!!

Depending upon what you're concerned about losing, perhaps all is not 
lost!  Go to the Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/... folders and find the 
.m4a files... dragging them over the iTunes application (or importing 
them from the File->Import... menu item) will restore them to the 
iTunes library.  Dragging whole directories will work too, but you 
might want to experiment with one to assure yourself that it works.

If you're concerned only about having lost the meta-data, I don't know 
whether there's an equivalent to ID3 tags in AAC files, sorry...

You're right of course, backing up music libraries is a very good idea. 
  I once lost several hundred ripped CDs to a crash.  I went out the 
next day and bought several external firewire drives exclusively for 
backups.

Hope this helps,

	-- Todd