iTunes idiocy

[TheDoctor]

Ok, this may take a while.
I have an Asus EEE 901 running XP. I installed iTunes so I could use my iPod Shuffle, and got it to store all the music on an SD card, which shows as the E drive. This worked fine. Some time later I reinstalled XP, and downloaded iTunes again. How can I persuade it to notice all the music on the E drive?
Driving me mad. I hope I don't have to import all my CDs again.
Please don't tell me I should have got a Mac...

 

[spandex]

You should of got a Mac!!!








Sorry you did say not to tell you that

 

[alecstilleyedye]

open itunes and under file, import the tunes again from the sd card. make sure it isn't set to copy the files again.

 

[Night Train]

I had a sort of similar problem with my MP3 player and WinXP. When I had to reinstall XP it refused to acknowledge the music files as belonging to me and kept showing threatening reminders that I was attempting to pirate music downloaded from another computer!
To date it won't let me move, organise or add to the music on my player.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

wot spandex said…

 

[Funtboy]

Ok, this may take a while.
I have an Asus EEE 901 running XP. I installed iTunes so I could use my iPod Shuffle, and got it to store all the music on an SD card, which shows as the E drive. This worked fine. Some time later I reinstalled XP, and downloaded iTunes again. How can I persuade it to notice all the music on the E drive?
Driving me mad. I hope I don't have to import all my CDs again.
Please don't tell me I should have got a Mac...

Macs are for ladyboys. All you have to do is click on 'Edit', then 'Preferences', then click on the 'Advanced' tab and change the iTunes Music Folder location.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I had a sort of similar problem with my MP3 player and WinXP. When I had to reinstall XP it refused to acknowledge the music files as belonging to me and kept showing threatening reminders that I was attempting to pirate music downloaded from another computer!
To date it won't let me move, organise or add to the music on my player.

DRM protected?

 

[Night Train]

DRM protected?

Don't know what that means but when I first transfered my cds to the player it went online and transfered all the track details to the player so that the display shows it all.
I am assuming that it somehow registered the pc I used at the time. When I reinstalled winXP it was because the motherboard and power supply failed so maybe it thinks it is a different machine now.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Don't know what that means but when I first transfered my cds to the player it went online and transfered all the track details to the player so that the display shows it all.
I am assuming that it somehow registered the pc I used at the time. When I reinstalled winXP it was because the motherboard and power supply failed so maybe it thinks it is a different machine now.

If you have transfered from CD the music won't be protected. Digital Rights management is a copy right protection system applied to some music downloaded of the net.

 

[twowheelsgood]

You should of got a Mac!!!








Sorry you did say not to tell you that

Nope, should ditch itunes and use one of the alternatives. itunes is simple but possibly the slowest most inefficient and sloppy music managers I've ever had the misfortune to encounter.

Worst of all you can't sync from more than one machine (so no downloading podcasts at work, unless you want to wipe everything) and you can't copy the music off it (easily) either.

I don't understand why anyone who doesn't want to access the store actually uses itunes.

 

[Fnaar]

I use my mobile as my mp3 player (8 gig card, 16 gig poss), and have started buying music from Amazon... DRM free, MP3 format, quality good.

 

[Mr Pig]

Must admit, I like iPods but I hate iTunes. I want a program to serve my wants, not those of its maker.

 

[Carwash]

What twowheelsgood and fnaar said.

 

[Black Sheep]

I had a sort of similar problem with my MP3 player and WinXP. When I had to reinstall XP it refused to acknowledge the music files as belonging to me and kept showing threatening reminders that I was attempting to pirate music downloaded from another computer!
To date it won't let me move, organise or add to the music on my player.

you need to autherise the music.

open i tunes
go to the 'store' option on the menu bar at the top of your screen
click autorise computer
log in with your itunes account and all should be well.

had to do it each time i re-formatted my G4 and my iMac

 

[honestal]

try using media monkey as the manager, I use it to manage over 100 gigs of mp3s (yes, it took me months to rip all my cds) and download them to my ipod. I only use iTunes to then create playlists (I'm sure you can do it with MM, but when I try I get duplicate copies of the same track, rather than simply a pointer to the track)