"Starting Over with iTunes"
I am having a terrible set of computer luck. My Windows desktop crapped out on me about 4 or 5 months ago. I had all of my itunes music sitting on my Dell laptop and regularly sync'd to my 30gb colour ipod. I went out and bought a new iMac and a Buffalo Pro Duo to act as a NAS. I spent lots of time on this very helpful board understanding how to consolidate my entire itunes library from the Dell laptop onto the NAS and then set the NAS as my default location for all of my music.
Everything was working great.
About a month ago, my Dell laptop gave up the ghost. No problem, because all of my music was safely on the NAS in a RAID 1 configuration. Because I had about 30 gb of music and my ipod only holds about 27gb (apx), I "unticked" some music but all was fine.
Over the weekend, my NAS crapped out. To make a short story long, even though I was using RAID 1, it is not cost effective to get the files off the hard drives.
Here is the question:
So now, when I open itunes on the Mac, I "see" my entire music library, but obviously none of the music is there. All of the files were stored on the NAS which is now gone. I have been in touch with Apple support and I believe I can re-obtain my purchased music, but I probably don't even need to as I understand I can get the purchased music off the ipod back onto the computer. But that only works for the purchased music from the itunes store. Has anyone tried the 3rd party solutions to get the rest of my music off the ipod and onto my computer? I was looking at Senuti, which seems good, any thoughts?
Also, how do I "get rid" of all of the songs that are listed in the library, but no longer exist, as the files are gone? When I get the music off the ipod and onto the computer, I don't want to have a bunch of extra names of songs for which the files don't exist. I guess I am asking if there is a way of "wiping the library" clean ( even though the files themselves, now only reside on my ipod, as the NAS is gone) so I can start fresh, get all of my music off the ipod and onto the computer and then just go from there.
Sorry for the long message. Hopefully this is the end of the problems. (Oh yeah, my daughter's for some reason gave me the "Restore" message and I had to wipe it clean and start over. Only problem is I have no music to put back on it until I resolve the above issue. )
Thanx
Message was edited by: Birdman325
Everything was working great.
About a month ago, my Dell laptop gave up the ghost. No problem, because all of my music was safely on the NAS in a RAID 1 configuration. Because I had about 30 gb of music and my ipod only holds about 27gb (apx), I "unticked" some music but all was fine.
Over the weekend, my NAS crapped out. To make a short story long, even though I was using RAID 1, it is not cost effective to get the files off the hard drives.
Here is the question:
So now, when I open itunes on the Mac, I "see" my entire music library, but obviously none of the music is there. All of the files were stored on the NAS which is now gone. I have been in touch with Apple support and I believe I can re-obtain my purchased music, but I probably don't even need to as I understand I can get the purchased music off the ipod back onto the computer. But that only works for the purchased music from the itunes store. Has anyone tried the 3rd party solutions to get the rest of my music off the ipod and onto my computer? I was looking at Senuti, which seems good, any thoughts?
Also, how do I "get rid" of all of the songs that are listed in the library, but no longer exist, as the files are gone? When I get the music off the ipod and onto the computer, I don't want to have a bunch of extra names of songs for which the files don't exist. I guess I am asking if there is a way of "wiping the library" clean ( even though the files themselves, now only reside on my ipod, as the NAS is gone) so I can start fresh, get all of my music off the ipod and onto the computer and then just go from there.
Sorry for the long message. Hopefully this is the end of the problems. (Oh yeah, my daughter's for some reason gave me the "Restore" message and I had to wipe it clean and start over. Only problem is I have no music to put back on it until I resolve the above issue. )
Thanx
Message was edited by: Birdman325
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