itunes and deletions

Jobe · 7 Dec 2007 at 05:18

Hi guys.
I deleted some of the music in my main library and stupidly clicked
to send it to the recycle bin instead of just removing it from the list. :rolleyes:

I wanted a couple of songs back but they're not in the bin.
Any idea how i can get them back?
would windows restore make them magically reappear if i roll back a day or two.

Regards

Jobe

Simian · 7 Dec 2007 at 08:29

I lost about 80% of my MP3's this way (the Wife clicked what you clicked!!) the only way I could get em back was a restore from my Backup Drive... Puckered my Bumhole that day!...

Jobe · 7 Dec 2007 at 17:56

sounds like they're lost forever then.
hey ho like i care so much.
one of the albums was my wife's Bay City Rollers. :eek:

Simian · 7 Dec 2007 at 17:59

This is why I don't use that 'Evil' Software!... Winamp is much better and the new 5.5 interfaces with an iPod nicely too!!

LeperousDust · 7 Dec 2007 at 18:57

The moral of this story is not to delete things you want, not that iTunes is evil, i was never a fan of iTunes until i actually used it properly for a bit (downloaded it for a party so my friend could choose what music they want, and they only know how to use iTunes). I was actually suitably impressed by what i *can* do once its setup properly! Yes its a big slow memory hog, but that bothers me less and less now days. I've still got foobar set to open as default music player from windows explorer. But for a dukebox application iTunes is actually pretty hard to beat... And i never thought i'd be saying that...

Ben M · 7 Dec 2007 at 20:58

WMP all the way

did you only have the tracks on your pc? not on any mp3 player or other such?

bledd · 7 Dec 2007 at 22:00

lol itunes sounds terrible

LeperousDust · 8 Dec 2007 at 03:29

bledd. said:
lol itunes sounds terrible

Try it first, it does thing WMP doesn't, and WMP does things that is does better. Swings and roundabouts. I use to be this all hating iTunes person, but after actually trying it, it isn't all that bad...

thepharcyde · 8 Dec 2007 at 17:35

use undelete but you will have no id tags. I have just sold my 2GB Nano yesterday for this particular reason, Itunes sucks, I also was randomly losing albums. I now use my N95 and a 4GB card. I format it then use media player which is 1,000,000,000,000 times better.

LeperousDust · 8 Dec 2007 at 17:48

How are you people managing this? I've used it with 40gb (circa 8000 tracks) worth of music now for ablout 6 months and i've yet to come accross any problems apart from there awful x64 support... Which i agree is bad.

Jobe · 12 Jan 2008 at 08:16

i was thinking of going vista 64 bit soon.
does itunes not like it

Jobe · 12 Jan 2008 at 08:28

ah i see. should have looked aroung first.

stoofa said:
iTunes works absolutely fine on Vista64.
After installing iTunes you then need to download and install the driver from the following location:

http://www.gearsoftware.com/support/drivers.cfm

The only exception to this is that the iPod Touch does not work under Vista64.
However classics, shuffles and nano's all work absolutely fine.