I have been and idiot

thepharcyde · 30 Jun 2006 at 16:26

My media player had duplicated my music twice so every song appeared twice in media player.

I thought okay I will delete from the library, but it has deleted from my drive too. Basically all my music is on a seperate IDE drive which has a folder called F:\Recycler and its hidden in there. If I look in the 3 bins listed, I cannot see the files. But I found a program called winundelete, which has found all the deleted MP3's but has called them dfsas1.mp3-dfsas2424 (somthing like this) so when I restore the files will no longer have the names etc.

Is there anything I can do to restore the files back to where I deleted them from i.e. the albumn name folders?

I AM SUCH A MUPPET, please help. it has taken me over 3 years to get a collection going?

Unromantic__Me · 30 Jun 2006 at 16:32

By the sounds of it, all these music files must have been downloaded to gain a 'collection'...if so, I doubt this would have all been done over Itunes over the space of three years...so maybe the simple (and maybe harsh reality I know) is to actually go out and buy the CD's, then if you do this again, you can just reload them all up (slightly time consuming I know) but at least youll still have all the music....

Sorry if this is a massive assumption out of place...but I know if I deleted all the music from my pc, I would have all the CDs so it wouldnt be a problem at all, and yeah id mind a lil...but not enough to make a post trying to save them

thepharcyde · 30 Jun 2006 at 16:46

they are my collection of CD's I have purchased yes. But I do not plan loading 150 plus CD's if I can help it as they are still on the drive ready to restore.

Unromantic__Me · 30 Jun 2006 at 16:57

then forgive my mistake...well chin up, at least you have a back up if they have all gone

Messiah Khan · 30 Jun 2006 at 17:21

Im sure there are other recovery programs that would do exactly what your after, im not sure which though im afraid. Another option would be to somehow rename the files from the ID3 tags,t then the files would be named correctly.

Caged · 30 Jun 2006 at 17:24

thepharcyde said:
it has taken me over 3 years to get a collection going?

I don't know, has it?

Unromantic__Me · 30 Jun 2006 at 17:35

Why do people feel the need to pick up on things like that? Its happened to me a few times over the past week...there is almost no need, and is untirely pointless, not to mention puts people off actually asking questions they would like help to again...surely something needs to be done about the amount of stupid sarcasm on here???????

Atari · 30 Jun 2006 at 17:50

I agree. I think it makes some people feel clever or witty.

But to the original query, do you have any way of finding out which songs are from which albums? If you can find that out, you *might* be able to use a tagging program like ID3-TAGit to search the net for matching files and name them automatically.

mctiny · 30 Jun 2006 at 17:53

have a little look for a program called "get data back" and try that to restore the deleted files, at least that way they "shoud" have the original names.

M0KUJ1N · 30 Jun 2006 at 18:00

Hi,

Providing you have consistent info in the id3 tags (which is feasible if they are all ripped from CD using a system that speaks to CDDB/FreeDB) You could try a utility like this: http://www.mp3machine.com/software/CPMP3Renamer/ to rename the files based on fields from their ID3 tags.

As for the sarcy comments, I think some people forget that this isn't a helpdesk service. People are not obliged to give out advice and for those of us who *do* make a conscious effort to help people out on the technical forums it does get a bit wearing when you have the same thread topics with the same questions popping up again and again

thepharcyde · 30 Jun 2006 at 18:41

thank you for all your help, even if this has already been covered before. And yes I do have originals of the cd's but over the years some have gone missing/scratched and general wear and tear.

TriedandTested · 1 Jul 2006 at 12:56

mctiny said:
have a little look for a program called "get data back" and try that to restore the deleted files, at least that way they "shoud" have the original names.

agreed. saved me before.

http://www.runtime.org/

squiffy · 1 Jul 2006 at 13:33

Copy them back from your backup burn from DVD-R? :rolleyes:

I have5 or 6 DVD-R's of my ripped original CD's, so if the computer HD goes down I can go back to it. You're a bit foolish if you haven't backed up your data/music.

n3vrmind · 2 Jul 2006 at 01:09

erm am i missing something here

were you using itunes? or media player to rip them? if so recover them to a folder with the random names then open itunes and tick the box that says 'let itunes organise my music' and drag all the files in, it should then organise and rename them all for you based on the tags that itunes/media player added when you originally ripped them

puppy · 2 Jul 2006 at 11:41

OP, just to echo the above, once you've got them back into a usable state (good luck!) it's REALLY important to regularly backup your entire set of mp3s to DVDs. I have SEVEN discs full of MP3s ripped from my CDs - it would take me weeks and weeks to re-rip them :eek:

A lot of people who download from iTunes etc don't think about the fact that they are one hard disc crash away from losing a lot of time and money...