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

[Kunga]

Thank you for the warning. What a major BUG !

k

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 09:39  PM, Michel Coste wrote:

> Well, taking advantage of the great opportunity to replace (not 
> convert!!!!) my 192k vbr mp3 to 128k aac (same quality to my ears for 
> the kind of music I consider) I had re-ripped already about 70 thirty 
> tracks CD's (that is reissue material) when a nasty crash occurred.
>
> When I relaunched iTunes all the library info remaining was about the 
> remaining mp3 tunes!!!!!
> ALL info concerning aac tunes had disappeared!!!!
>
> That means I had to return to my last back up. Of course - stupid me - 
> since the iTunes 4 issue I hadn't made any backup.
>
> So I had to restart iTunes with a library info containing ONLY mp3 
> info!
> That means for me I have about 2000 tracks to edit one by one. (I 
> didn't find any other way and don't think there is...)
>
> Poor me! And stupid not making any backup after each re-ripping 
> session. DON'T DO THE SAME!
>
> Oh yes: you need to know what caused the crash of course.
> I was in fact modifying an entry in the info panel when the crash 
> happened. This is maybe the cause.
> I had to edit the info because some mp3 files where not replaced. This 
> happens when the basic 3 CD infos (Song Name; Artist; Album) has been 
> modified in the mp3 files. This is THE ONLY INFO iTunes takes into 
> consideration when replacing a mp3 file with a aac file (in that case) 
> when you re-rip CDs. The file name (happily enough) is not taken into 
> consideration.
>
> mc