Jasper
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| posted on 11/6/08 at 10:55 AM |
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iTunes driving me nutes
iTunes is doing some strange things, it keeps loosing songs, either whole albums or odd tracks from albums, it just leaves an exclamation mark and
says it can't find it. Pain in the arse.....
And it renames the artist the same thing, so David Bowie becomes David Bowie/David Bowie/ David Bowie etc..... so I have to go and rename them
all.....
Is it me or iTunes? I've enable iTunes to manage all my music, is that the problem?
Or is there a better (and free) software to manage my music and sync to my iPod?
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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Tim 45
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| posted on 11/6/08 at 11:44 AM |
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Depends if you buy music off iTunes, if you do - then itunes is still the only way to transfer purchases. If not, try audacity.
As for the ! thing, its happened to me before now - i think whats happened is its moved the location of the music file, probably to My
Music/iTunes/iTunes Music, and then not bothered to link to it, meaning it looks in the wrong place and so cant find it.
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Jasper
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| posted on 11/6/08 at 12:25 PM |
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Nope don't get music from the iTunes store, so no problem there.
I've have Audacity for recording audio tracks playing from streaming from the internet, but didn't know it could be used to store
music.... have to look at that.
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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rgrs
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| posted on 11/6/08 at 12:32 PM |
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Have a look at media monkey
linky
You would need the pro version but its not expensive. Its very good at managing large collections and sync's to ipods with out any problem.
My collection runs to about 30,000 tracks and is easy to manage. I gave up with itunes after 2 days, its just 2 restrictive and if anything goes wrong
the only advice is to re-install ..
Roger
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hughpinder
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| posted on 11/6/08 at 12:45 PM |
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I have the ! on a few music files in itunes. They are ones I bought from the itunes store, then copied from my laptop to my desktop. This breaks
someting in the copywrite protection I think. The files are still there, but wont play. This also happened to some files after I had the motherboard
replaced in a laptop and had to re-install from a backup, but not when I upgraded the hard disc! I got roud it by using the itunes
authorise/de-authorise function (I think).
Regards
Hugh
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RK
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| posted on 11/6/08 at 03:54 PM |
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I get stuff from Soulseek. Works great. Do you have the latest from iTunes? Maybe that would help.
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Jasper
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| posted on 14/6/08 at 03:24 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by rgrs
Have a look at media monkey
linky
You would need the pro version but its not expensive. Its very good at managing large collections and sync's to ipods with out any problem.
My collection runs to about 30,000 tracks and is easy to manage. I gave up with itunes after 2 days, its just 2 restrictive and if anything goes wrong
the only advice is to re-install ..
Roger
Media monkey looks good to me, had a play with it ...... found all the 'lost' music that iTunes said I didn't have any more -
excellent!
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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