Comments on: rotten apple

By: Mom

Mom — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:55:40 +0000

Did you see Blurbomat’s posting about iTunes?

By: pixelknave

pixelknave — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:57:20 +0000

Ouch =(

I’ve always wondered why the iTunes database is so centralized. Seems vulnerable to this sort of thing. Maybe Time Machine™ will help with this next year, but in the meantime, here’s what I do (because I’m paranoid like that):

All of my playlists are Smart. The comment fields in my songs are chock full of gibberish keywords purely so my Smart Playlists can scour through and associate them together. This way, even if (or when) the database konks out, playlists can be reconstructed from the songs’ metadata.

I know, small comfort. I’ll spank iTunes for you when I get to work tomorrow. With a belt.

By: regan

regan — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:53:30 +0000

and Dan, Jason says he didn’t save a copy because he didn’t think iTunes was going to destroy the library. At least we now know for the next upgrade.

By: regan

regan — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:47:20 +0000

wow, Kathy I didn’t mean to release such anger for Apple onto the world.

By: kathys

kathys — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:38:27 +0000

I hate Apple. I hate Steve Jobs. I hate the iPod. Now, I have a reason to hate iTunes.

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:06:11 +0000

I guess it’s a good thing I keep telling it “No no no no no no!” when it asks me to update, haha.

My consolations for your loss(es).

By: dsandler

dsandler — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:34:05 +0000

That sucks. I’m sorry. We lost a bunch of our playlists last year, but due to cat feet instead of software glitches. Solution: password-protected screen saver on the iMac.

[Did Jason save a copy of the iTunes Music Library XML file in your account? All the playlist information is stored in there, and it might be possible to re-integrate that information with your new (old) Library.]