That's just it - They just aren't there any more.
Hopefully the link that floatingslowly provided will be my saviour. It's looking OK so far. Could take a while tho.

ipodrip

the iTunes aren't mp3 files. they are aac or mp4.

fuck winamp. iTunes is the best thing out there.

like it was mentioned above, disable auto-synch. I do this for every program I have that uses it. I also never install iTune updates until I HAVE to. most times, they seem to disable more features than they create. so unless it crashes on you, I wouldn't accept updates.

Florya, I still think that your files are on your computer. don't search by "music" type under Window's search funtion, just use the name of the track and specify "all files". it will take awhile, but I bet the folder just got moved.

barring imminent critical hard-drive failure, it would take TWO separate confirmations to have deleted all those files (the first for "are you sure?" and the second stating that the file is too large for the recycle bin and it will be deleted).

I'm glad that you can get the stuff off your iPod right now, but there's a good chance you are using up extra space on your hard-drive with duplicate files.

I have. I've searched using the most obscure song titles and the only versions that show up are the ones that I've just transferred back using tha program you linked to.

I'm mystified.

itunes is ""the best" YET you have to disable its obscure, potentially catastrophic functions? fuck if anything that eats your files is "the best" anything, unless you're talking about a "hard drive cleaner".

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnba..._7_ate_al.html

yes flotz, i know itunes sells AAC (AAC is a compression scheme, mp4 is only a container), but upon installation, icrap sets itself as default player for all manner of music files, therefore gobbling up all innocents, such as mp3s one would download from mutant sounds (florya's records have been featured on mutant sounds, presume he might keep a few), or mp3s purchased from such respectable outfits as emusic (which lets you play what you want where you want to, unlike icacas).

since mp3s dont have the nasty proprietary layers of mp4, and therefore can be access by any decent program (such as winamp), i figured they would be a good place to start looking for richard.

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ps- is your hard drive dying? see comments:

http://ask.metafilter.com/65298/iTun...-all-out-again

winamp sucks, though.

nonsense. how does it "suck"? you click the fucking file, it plays it-- you can add plugins for flac and shn-- what else do you need? a button that eats your files? or something that sez "sorry but i am not allowed to play that". oh yeah. that's the apex of technology, huh?

simple = good

the ipod is as technologically advanced as i've gotten.

winamp sucks.

just cos you keep repeating it, it doesn't make it true-- you attended the george w. bush school of rhethoric? posit a decent argument for fucks sakes.

goddamn a-rabs.

oops i blasphemied and as a man of the lord's word i would never do that.
gosh darn a-rabs.

saddam wmd saddam wmd

vlc is the shit.

nucular weppens nucular weppens nucular weppens.

saddam.

sad-dum is how it is pronounciated correctly

my decent argument? winamp sucks. there. god bless america and fuck off.

really, to me, winamp was never very user-friendly, and i could give two shits about how many different file formats is supports, if i don't actually enjoy using the program, what's the point?

the only issues i've ever really had with itunes have always been with windows based machines, but that's no real surprise there.

i can get behind that, for sure.

hm, that looks interesting...

what kind of footprint does it have? HUGE??? or tiny?

reason i never got into foobar was the learning curve, & efforts better spent elsewhere

i have no idea of what you're talking about. speak portuguese or spanish or french or italian etc.