I am running Windows XP SP3. A year ago I backed up my iTunes library using iTunes 7. I backed up both my purchases and stuff I put on there myself. Recently my PC crashed. After I got it back up I installed iTunes 8 (couldn't find 7) I started iTunes. Following the instructions on apple.com I put my iTunes backup disc in the drive. iTunes is supposed to recognize the disc and ask you if you wanted to restore you library. That never happened. I was able to look at the contents of the disc and confirm it is my iTunes backup. I have software to copy the contents of my iPod to my PC, but that won't work because, I have some content on my backup disc not currently on my iPod. Can anyone help? Their is software to restore an iPod, but is their software to restore an iPod backup disc? Thanks Gerald Thomas
Gerry, I would just look for the music on the disk and just recover that. Hopefully, Apple hasn't encrypted it. There would be no reason to do that other than take advantage of trusting sheeple. Apple is very unethical, taking every chance to steal from their customers. I find it incredable that they are so popular. Be careful copying your music off the ipod. That could activate a routine that will 'kill' your ipod. There are many complaints about that routine this month. I would read all the 'help my ipod is not working' posts for June. I would surely remove itunes 8 if you are going to back copy and install it after you recovered all the music from the ipod. It may not be necessary but I wouldn't gamble my ipod to see if it gets killed or not. In the future, you might just export the music to disks. You should remove the DRMs first. You can verify everything is OK by playing the music on a different computer. If you can do that your music is safe and secure.
Thanks I could try that, but the files are listed as xyj3.mp3 prvd.mp3 and so on. All of the ID3 tag data isn't their. So I don't know what the songs are. That info is in the Itunes Database. So I need to find another solution. But thanks for trying. Gerald
I suspect you are wrong... The file names have been altered on your player making it harder to reverse copy however, if the data is displayed correctly on your player the tag info is there. The player database is very limited. To save space, most of the info is taken from the tags not the database. There is conciderable data stored in the tags, not just the info you see displayed on the screen. It is normal for an app to load tag data directly from the tag data not from a database. The reason being, what if you updated the tag info with a tag editor? itunes may operate differently it could not care if the tag info had been altered by another app. I gave itunes the benifit of the doubt that the reason it loaded so slow was the reading all of the tag info. The music on your back up disk should not be listed as xyj3.mp3 prvd.mp3 and so on, it only scrambles the file names for the player. A back up ought to restore back to the way it was, right? There are apps that will rename your mp3 file using the tag data so the names are no real biggie unless you have 30 +gs of tunes. You can do a few hundred in a minute or so. I would not do more than that at one time. It is nice to check your work before doing more. You can do thousands (gs) in an hour. Even 30g can be done in a weekend working part time. 160g I might have to trust Media Monkey. There are fairly easy, workable solutions on hand. Both ways should work, from the disk is preferable since you keep the file names. There are other apps that will create a "finger print" of your tune and locate the tag info based on the sound profile if you are missing tag info. If you are waiting for a clean fix, you may be waiting a very long time. I doubt that you will get much help from Apple. If they cared, they would offer back versions. I wouldn't be surprised if the incompatablity was planned. They always prefer for you to buy all your tunes again.
