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My iTunes horror story

I imported my collection of 40 gigs of mp3's into iTunes. I discoverd that about half of my music was missing tags for album, artist, genre, etc. So I painstakingly added the info over a couple of months. Plus, I rated songs with four or five stars so I could burn my own "greatest hits" CD's to listen to in the car. Altogether, maybe 100 hours of work. In the meantime, I had been reorganizing my collection on the Linux server it sat on, so the directory structure was different. iTunes, of course, was baffled and could no longer find the songs.

So, I completely cleared all songs from iTunes and told oit to rediscover all the music.

After it did so, I was shocked to find that it lost the album and artist info on about 1/4 of the music! Rediscovering the files multiple times didn't help. The tags are there, because I can see them via advanced properties in Explorer.

Oh, and all the four and five star ratings were gone, too. Apparently iTunes only kept that info internaly instead of writing it to the files.

So, I no longer use it. I sure wish I had those hours back I spent rating songs.

Posted by: bbbaldie_z   Posted on: 12/27/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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