Getting the sidebar back with playlists takes three steps as far as I can tell: My iTunes library primarily consists of music I have made myself, and uploads of my jazz and classical collections as well as some rock, as I no longer own a hi fi system so have to upload to my computer to play musical recordings anymore.Ĭuttime wrote:Yes to all the above, although I haven't lost any material. It would be somewhat different if I bought music on-line, due to all the contractual stuff where you don't "own" the music, but I don't.
Something akin to when e-books got deleted from people's e-readers even though they had paid for them. If Apple feels they can just arbitrarily change things in a way that cause people to lose data, we have no idea what's ahead that could be even worse. To me, the biggest point is the trust factor. I had been meaning for some time to look into current alternatives to iTunes, and now this emergency will force me to do this sooner than later. Oh, the interface is entirely different as well, and just as with v11, you may find it takes awhile to get back your preferred views of your music library. To me, this is the worst of the sins of v12 -e specially as there was no warning that they had changed the library format for the metadata. Uh-oh, looks like someone in an office somewhere had a better idea, so the "Notes" field has gone ZAPPO and NO LONGER EXISTS!!!! This represents hundreds of hours of work lost at my end over the years. Primarily, I like to keep track of who played, and what instruments. The first thing I do after I upload a CD is to transfer as much of the liner notes as interest me for that album, since no one has ever digitized that stuff. So, I spent over two hours taking care of almost everything other than the two classical compilations mentioned above, and a recording of Mozart's Figaro that would probably take me an hour to do one track at a time and thus is easier just to re-upload.įatigued at this point, I hadn't the energy to keep locating files for the large compilations, so uploaded a new CD to see if anything goes awry. Given that in many cases entire albums got "lost", it would be oh so nice if we could select groups of tracks and locate their on-disc files, but we have to do it all one-by-one. uploaded from CD and is "unauthorized" all of a sudden
Material was originally downloaded from the internet vs. almost any French composer), hyphens, umlauts, etc.ģ. Artist and Album Artist do not match - most frequent with classical and compilationsĢ. What this means is that the lost "songs" fall into these main categories:ġ. It then became clear that it was a matter of the new version of iTunes not being able to reconcile the difference between Artist and Album Artist, as well as difficulty with Unicode characters (or at least UTF-8 or anything not in standard US-ASCII). For my jazz group, quite a bit of the music was GONE.Īt this point, I was in a bit of a panic, so booted up my most recent backup drive to see if I could find the "songs" on that drive. So, next up was a visit to my Playlists, which I use exclusively for music I am producing as well as music I am practicing for gigs. I am presenting problems in the order to how likely they are to affect the most people here, which is the inverse of how much they affect me personally. I am building up to the worst problems, so please be patient. I wouldn't really care so much, as most of them aren't the greatest performance, but it was a cheap way to get some placeholder recordings of a lot of stuff. It then showed my purchases but said they are not "authorized" on my computer.
WHERE DOES SWINSIAN STORE FILES SOFTWARE
So I searched for my iTunes Store login info, as I never use it but was forced to register in order to be eligible for general software updates in the App Store, or something like that. When I opened it up, it couldn't find over 1000 "songs" in my library.Īt first, I thought it was just the two on-line purchases I have made over the years (I do not buy music on-line), which were the Mozart collection (99 "songs") and the 24 Hours of Classical Music collection (almost 400 "songs"). I knew something was up when I saw the red vs. How did iTunes v12 assert itself onto my computer, when I have auto-updates turned off?
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