paulovng
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Q: I lost my playlists with itunes 12.2.0.145. Is it possible to arrange this?

I have years of work organizing my playlists and with the last update of itunes my playlists do not appear! How is this possible? How can I fix this? Can anyone please help me?

iMac, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 2, 2015 3:01 PM

by Freedspeak,Solvedanswer
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A:

After spending a couple hours dealing with this same issue last night (and I didn't elect to do the update, Apple FORCED it on me because they want everyone using Apple Music), I found this solution: 12.2.0 disaster

 

-Quit iTunes

--Start iTunes while holding down the Option(Alt) key.

--A window comes up with an option for "Choose Library".  Click that.

--Navigate to your iTunes folder, which should be in the Music folder on your hard drive

--Find the folder that says "Previous iTunes Libraries"

--Click the .itl file dated today, or the very most recent one you can find before you updated, and click on it.

 

Problem for me is that my last itl file was in December, so everything I have done to iTunes in the last 6 months was lost.  I had to redownload all of my purchases, go find all my non-iTunes mp3's from the last 6 months, and my playlists and updates to song details (year, composer, etc) all have to be redone.  This is DAYS worth of work that I have to do all because Apple couldn't keep their pants on about this stupid Apple Music service.  So let's recap:

1) Apple forced an update on me

2) It caused me to lose 6 months of iTunes work

3) I called them, spent 15 minutes waiting to speak to someone about this, explained the situation, he put me on hold twice, then came back on with a "senior level tech" who promptly hung up on me (accidentally or not, who know) and no one attempted to call me back (even though I gave my number up front)

4) Apple makes good products (most of the time), but the company is horrible.

Posted on Jul 9, 2015 3:09 AM

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Q: I lost my playlists with itunes 12.2.0.145. Is it possible to arrange this?

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  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jul 9, 2015 7:18 AM in response to paulovng
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    Jul 9, 2015 7:18 AM in response to paulovng

    That's good news. However one drawback with using this method rather than the one outlined in Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash is that your active library file is now in a non-standard location with respect to the media folder. You may run into trouble if/when you want to move your library to a new drive or computer, or have a similar problem in future and have to locate the correct Previous iTunes Libraries folder to look for your older libraries in.

     

    See Make a split library portable for advice if you want to try putting the library back into the standard shape.

     

    tt2

  • by Freedspeak,

    Freedspeak Freedspeak Jul 9, 2015 7:30 AM in response to turingtest2
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    Jul 9, 2015 7:30 AM in response to turingtest2

    Thanks for this!  In light of this info, is it possible that somewhere on my drive I still have access to my library as it was before Apple forced the 12.2 update on me yesterday?  The best I could find was an .itl folder from December that brought everything up to then, but I still had to redownload all my purchases since then; drag all mp3's not purchased through iTunes since December back in to iTunes; I completely lost ALL of my playlists and details (of songs, composers, dates, etc) that I have manually created since December.  It is, without question, the most traumatic thing Apple has ever done to me from a product standpoint, and I am still really upset about it.  Total loss of confidence in their product updates.

     

    I tried to do a full system search for a more updated itl or xml file with no luck.  Could it be hidden?  Any advice would be appreciated!  Thanks.

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jul 9, 2015 11:40 AM in response to Freedspeak
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    Jul 9, 2015 11:40 AM in response to Freedspeak

    The 12.2 update certainly created a previous library for me. I think the last automatic one for me was 12.0 in October of last year. (I do wish they would do it for every update - I've a couple from April, but I was probably testing something and made them myself.) If your search hasn't turned up anything then double-check for hidden .tmp files in your iTunes folder in case one of those represents your lost library. This assumes that iTunes on OS X manages that bit the same way that it does on Windows. I don't suppose TimeMachine is enabled for your iTunes folder?

     

    tt2

  • by nzswift,

    nzswift nzswift Aug 16, 2015 7:23 PM in response to paulovng
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    Aug 16, 2015 7:23 PM in response to paulovng

    Absolutely brilliant Freed!!!! Happy puppy again. No more iTunes updates for me as of now!!!

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