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

[Michel Coste]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 06:56 Europe/Paris, Todd Masco wrote:

> 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.$

Well I would loose metadata. So this is not a way to consider. (i was 
re-reaping as a way to save these!)
I think that the main interest of statistics is in the long time so if 
you restart them each time......
I also don't want to loose my rating!!!

>
> 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...

Sure there are metadata in aac files!!!!

>
> 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.

Which version of iTunes crashed for you?

>
> Hope this helps,
>
> 	-- Todd
>
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