How do I get all my music back into itunes?
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You can go to the File menu and select\nAdd files to library\nand go to the folder where you keep all your music for example My Music...
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Use iTunes.  http://www.iTunes.com/
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Ok. First you make a playlist by pressing the plus sign at the bottom left corner of itunes. then you name it whatever. then you drag the songs into the playlist. then you click on the icon in the top right corner and then insert a blank disk and press it again. I will take my 10 points thxx
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i had the same problem & no u can't  recover music files u just have to get all of your music the same way u got them and once u deleted your music files there gone for good
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Check this out ... Extract from\nhttp://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=159372&start=0&tstart=0\nOption 1:\nAssuming you're moving files legally between your own computers, check out iPodAgent at http://www.ipodsoft.com/\n________________________________\nOption 2:\nThe manual way around this problem is to use the iPod in its alter ego - that of portable computer disk drive. Successfully tested under iTunes for Windows 4.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; Windows XP Home.\n\n- Start with the iPod disconnected from the computer - DON'T CONNECT IPOD YET\n- open iTunes\n- open iTunes Preferences - this blocks iTunes from seeing an iPod connection; leave the preferences window up and running\n- connect the iPod to the computer, wait about 15 seconds before continuing\n- open 'My Computer'\n- Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab, enable 'show hidden files /folders'\n- open iPod icon in My Computer\n- open iPod_Control folder\n- you should see a folder named Music\n- drag this folder to somewhere on your computer hard drive\n- after the copy completes, right-click the new Music folder on your hard drive and select 'Properties'\n- clear the checkmark next to 'Hidden'\n- Close that explorer window\n- eject iPod from System tray "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. This icon looks like a small gray rectangle with a green arrow floating above it. It's only there when a removable device (like the iPod in this case) is attached to the computer. Right-click & select 'Safely remove..', then click 'Stop' in the next window, OK in the next window, and then Close to complete the ejection.\n- disconnect the iPod from the computer\n\n- go back to iTunes, cancel the preferences window\n- File menu &#92; Add folder to Library &#92; find that Music folder copied over from the iPod\n\nYour iTunes library should be back in action! But wait - there's more!!\n\nLong time forum regular Otto42 has a java script/program that can also retrieve the playlists themselves from the iPod as well. Here are his instructions and a link to the most recent thread discussing this tricky process:\n\n] This is really useful when you're pulling all the songs off of an iPod to put them back into iTunes, because you lost your library or anything along those lines. Come up with your own reason for using it.\n\n] Download this program:\nhttp://otto.homedns.org:8888/iTunes/iPodGetXML.zip \n(If you can't download it, try again later. The connection goes up and down a lot.)\n\n] Now, put the iPod into Disk Mode or otherwise access the iPod as a drive. Make sure you can see hidden files, then go to the drive and the iPod_Control folder and find the iTunesDB file. Copy it to your PC.\n\n] Put the copied iTunesDB file in the same directory as this program, then run the program. It'll read the iTunesDB, get all the playlists, and create an XML file for each one. Now just import those XML files into iTunes to recreate the playlists.\n\n] Notes:\n- The songs in playlist must already be in the iTunes library. If any one of them isn't there, iTunes throws up an error when you try to import the XML file.\n- The song names, artist names, and album names in the library all must be identical as to what the iPod has. If you just copied all the music off the iPod and into iTunes, this will be the case, so it's generally not a big deal. but you'll get an error if it can't find the song in the iTunes library, so it's something to keep in mind.\n- It probably won't be able to cope with unusual characters in song names. Sorry, not worth my time to fix. Dealing with unicode is way annoying.\n- Smart Playlists get changed into regular playlists. It's *possible* for me to add the smart playlist stuff in there, but it'll take a while to work it all out.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOriginal thread for Otto42's playlist recovery: http:
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The safest thing to do is create a seperate folder on your hard drive.  Such as in your documents a folder called music already exists.  Copy your songs from the itunes folder, to the music folder in your documents.  Then uninstall itunes.  The uninstall can only take away files that were installed by itunes.  Since whatever folder your music was downloaded to by default was created by itunes, it may be possible that if the music is in that folder at the time of the uninstall, it may wipe them off your hd.  Transferring them to a seperate folder by a simple copy and paste will eliminate that possibility.  99 percent of the time though the uninstall will ask you if you would like to keep sertain folders such as your download folder for itunes.
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1. Download itunes off of itunes.com\n2. Put music on itunes\n3. trasfer itunes to ipod
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Plug your Ipod into the other computer, go to my computer and click on the ipod icon there.  drag the music out of there and into another folder or onto the desktop of the computer
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Here's the secret. Burn the songs onto a disc in audio format, then upload them back on to your computer as mp3 files.
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you have to use iTunes with iPods.\n\ntry restarting the computer, or if that fails uninstall itunes and reinstall it.
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go to apple.com and click ipod/itunes and then click download then get itunes
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reinstall it.  Theres a new version\nhttp://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
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iTunes will not play .ram files...burn the tracks in RealPlayer to a CD...then import them into iTunes
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ON ITUNES GO TO FILE THEN ADD FILE TO LIBRARY. THATS WHAT I DO!
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Have you tried itunes?
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iTunes 7 makes it easy to back up your music library to CD or DVD.  Follow these simple steps from the Apple support site:\nhttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302392\n\nIf you're using iTunes 5 or 6, follow these steps:\nhttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304278
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Transfer them using iTunes. X