iPOD briefly dumped my songs

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I have a fairly large library. 20 gig iPOD (3 yrs old) and it's full. (a few TV programs and podcasts but mostly songs).

At any rate, for some weird reason I noticed recently that even on shuffle I was only pulling up Annie Lennox, Genesis, Bajofondo, and The Sound of Music soundtrack, as well as a few random new songs.

It was driving me crazy! I knew I had hundreds of songs (maybe thousands? not sure) and why the hell was the damn thing focusing on a handful of artists.

Ooops. Found out.

If the iPOD is just about full, would it spontaneously do that?
 
"Hell" and "Damn"; words often used when describing iTunes.
I had made it a NYs resolution to purge iTunes from my life this year. Still have not found a way to do it but I will not quit trying til I succeed.
 
Missing that Captain and Tenile, huh?



:D
 
Does it have a hot list shuffle, or party shuffle, or something like that where it selects "preferred" artists or songs and plays them?
 
Ed - there was nuttin in my library. I checked - almost all songs were gone - no artists, no albums, no nuttin.

Dave- - my worry is that ALL my songs are on one 7 yr old laptop. I only fire it up for iTunes now. All my CDs, and of course a buttload of purchased iTunes. Not sure how to get all purchased iTunes transferred to another computer in case that old laptop dies.

Anthony - you know, I almost didn't list artists. Then I thought, eh, at least one person is going to make a crack about it, why not list and see who bites. ;)

I have a very eclectic mix. From Flo-rida to Beethoven to Viennese marches/waltzes to ELO to soundtracks, etc. Dalida probably ranks in my top 20. etc.
 
woodstock said:
I have a fairly large library. 20 gig iPOD (3 yrs old) and it's full. (a few TV programs and podcasts but mostly songs).

At any rate, for some weird reason I noticed recently that even on shuffle I was only pulling up Annie Lennox, Genesis, Bajofondo, and The Sound of Music soundtrack, as well as a few random new songs.

It was driving me crazy! I knew I had hundreds of songs (maybe thousands? not sure) and why the hell was the damn thing focusing on a handful of artists.

Ooops. Found out.

If the iPOD is just about full, would it spontaneously do that?
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woodstock said:
Ed - there was nuttin in my library. I checked - almost all songs were gone - no artists, no albums, no nuttin.

Dave- - my worry is that ALL my songs are on one 7 yr old laptop. I only fire it up for iTunes now. All my CDs, and of course a buttload of purchased iTunes. Not sure how to get all purchased iTunes transferred to another computer in case that old laptop dies.
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Yikes! Back that machine up!!! If you lose 'em completely, you'll have to buy 'em again! :hairraise:

Anyway, back to the problem - There hasn't been a "20 gig iPod" in a much longer time than the last three years. Which model iPod is it? (Touch, Nano, Classic, etc.)

If it's related to it being full, you should get an alert when you sync it with the computer that says something to the effect of "iPod is too full to sync all songs, syncing xxxxx playlists instead" or somesuch.
 
Hmmm, maybe it's a 32 gig?

I have two iPODS. One is 20 gig, from 2005. The other is 2008 - you're right, that one is 32 gig.

It is the Touch that did this.


Dumb Q: How do you back up iTunes? I have a couple of extra storage thingies.

To back up my photos I merely attach it to my computer via USB and make a folder for the photos. QED. However, it's very easy to find the photos folder on my computer. How do you find the iTUNES folder? This is a 6 yr old laptop (2005).
 
woodstock said:
Dumb Q: How do you back up iTunes? I have a couple of extra storage thingies.

To back up my photos I merely attach it to my computer via USB and make a folder for the photos. QED. However, it's very easy to find the photos folder on my computer. How do you find the iTUNES folder? This is a 6 yr old laptop (2005).
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Preferences->Advanced. Should show where it is. This also assumes you have the checkbox on that says' "Copy files to iTunes folder when adding to library".

If that's not on, your stuff could be scattered all over the drive(s) and iTunes is just tracking the locations in its XML library file. (Which is also in that first directory and a good idea to back up that stuff as well.)

Are you on a Mac or PC? If Mac, the simple way to deal with this is to buy a USB or FireWire drive and turn on Time Machine backups to it and fuggetaboutit.
 
woodstock said:
It is the Touch that did this.
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Hmmm, interesting.

Dumb Q: How do you back up iTunes? I have a couple of extra storage thingies.
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What Nate said. If you have the option for iTunes to manage your music turned on (looks like it's "Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized" on mine, under Preferences->Advanced), everything should be nicely organized inside an "iTunes Music" folder, whose location you can see in the prefs as he described. That makes the backup a simple matter of copying that folder to an external device.

If you don't have that turned on, you could have music scattered all over the place, so you might want to turn that option on to facilitate backups.
 
Need to convert them all to a universally recognized, burden-free format, then use Open Itunes to play them!
 
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