Tags can be anything-not only simple genre keywords, such as jazz and folk, but also keywords that express how the music makes you feel, what it reminds you of, or anything else that you think categorizes it. MyStrands downloads community tags from its database for each track, and you can add your own (see “Leave Your Mark”). There’s also a field for entering tags-user-contributed keywords that describe the song. As you play songs in iTunes, MyStrands runs in a separate window, displaying track information and a Recommendations list of similar songs you might enjoy (recommendations are based on several aspects of the entire community’s listening habits). MyStrands scans your iTunes library and compares it with the MyStrands database. MyStrands tracks informa-tion about the music you listen to, builds unique online charts, and has several interesting commu-nity features. MyStrands service is a great starting point. Now back it up.MyStrands If you’re interested in discovering music via the power of social networks and the hive mind, the free Hope it works you as it did for me and you get you entire library back to the way it was. Rename "iTunes Library (Damaged).itl" back to "iTunes l" Drag the 'new' "iTunes l" to the Trash.ĩ. *iTunes creates a new "iTunes l" and "iTunes Music Library.xml" in your iTunes folder.Ĩ. * Microsoft Windows: "iTunes l" (in versions of iTunes prior to 4.9 this was called "iTunes 4 Music l") * Mac OS X: "iTunes Library" (in versions of iTunes prior to 4.9 this was called "iTunes 4 Music Library"). Drag the following file from your iTunes folder to the Trash: Drag the iTunes Music Library.xml to the Desktopĥ. * For Microsoft Windows Vista the iTunes folder is stored inĤ. \Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\ * For Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 the iTunes folder is stored in * For Mac OS X the iTunes folder is stored in one of the following locations: Fortunately, I got my entire library back without having a backup. Do you have any iTunes plugins, Lastfm's iscrobbler has been implicated in this problem. The next thing to think about is plugins. Try turning off virus checking briefly, if that stops the problem, exclude iTunes l and iTunes Music Library.xml from virus checking. The NOD32 virus checker is known to do this. The first thing to think about is virus checking. On the temp file issue, they are useless and can be deleted from the iTunes folder. The xml file isn’t necessary but can come in handy if the library needs to be recreated and the itl file is causing problems. To restore, with iTunes closed drag the current itl and xml file from the iTunes folder to the desktop, then copy the backup iTunes l into the iTunes folder. into the Previous iTunes Libraries folder. It is a good idea to make regular copies of your iTunes Library files to guard against this problem:Ĭopy iTunes l and iTunes Music Library.xml somewhere else e.g. Use File>Add folder to library to add your iTunes Music folder. Start iTunes and an empty library will be created. The simple way to get everything back in iTunes loses counts, ratings and playlists.Ĭlose iTunes, drag iTunes l and iTunes Music Library.xml out ot the iTunes folder to the desktop. You have two problems which may or not be related.īuild Up of temp files in the iTunes folder. I put a lot of work into those playlists and stuff. I can't find the answer in the apple help sections, and another apple forum.Ĭan anyone please help me? I'm really bummed out about iTunes just 'destroying' my personal library for no apparent reason. I've tried a lot of ways, but I can't seem to recover my music library. I still have the damaged file, some iT files and over 1000 Temp Files, which I think might also be a way to recover my library. everything was like, reset.Ĭan this be fixed in ANY kind of (easy) way? ITunes opened, with the newly created l file, but half of my tracks were gone from its database, as well as all of my playlists, preferences, downloads. Nothing much happened, until iTunes said my l file wasn't a valid file, and therefor was renamed to iTunes Library (Damaged).itl. I started iTunes yesterday, and it was importing my library for some reason. Wasn't really mine, it was from someone with almost the exact same problem. So, I'm posting this again because the previous thread I mentioned this in got the 'answered' status.
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