FOUR letter song titles?!?"ZMMH?

Sorry to x-post on 2 discussions but it is a "using" question caused by an "installation and upgrade"
Since my iTunes 5 upgrade disaster and finally getting iTunes 4.9 back on my now functioning computer, I notice that some of the songs I managed to rescue from some sort of internal filing oblivion now have their titles replaced by FOUR capital letters (and also no longer are associated with albums). What the heck does this mean???
for example "ZMMH" "UYFR" . They aren't abbreviations as far as I can tell and I know that these songs used to appear with their proper titles.
I really don't want to plug an iPod into itunes for fear that it will rename the songs in the iPod as well. Is this a permanent destruction of my iTunes song titles or will this get miraculously fixed if iTunes 5 ever gets released in a functioning way?
Thanks for any info / help

Posted on Sep 16, 2005 12:16 PM

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Sep 16, 2005 7:43 PM in response to BusyMe

Thanks for the reply. No I don't think its a virus. I've had up to date virus and spyware protection and fire wall up except for the brief time attempting to download and install iTunes5. I turned it back on after the installation failures and the eventual recuperation of my computer. I also rescanned finding no viruses or spyware.

Sep 16, 2005 10:46 PM in response to poiuyt

I've got an iPod Shuffle. If I surf to it in Windows Explorer (where it shows up as USB storage device), I can see that my .mp3 files are renamed with 4 letter names, but the ID3 tags are still intact. I think the 4 letter name may be some kind naming convention used by the iPod's file system?

Don't know if this anything to do with your problem but it might be related.

Dan

Sep 17, 2005 11:37 AM in response to Dan Humiston

Thanks. I find that VERY intersting. I'm hoping that things might revert back to their normal names if I manage to get iTunes 5 working without it Crashing and trashing my computer again. I'll wait till next week for the possible fix from Apple before attempting another dounload upgrade installation.
Hopefully....hah.....things will be sortable.

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