It happened again the other day- I tried to manually add a few songs- I'm fairly sure they were in the mp3 format- it was trying to sync, but they could not be added on for some reason- that circle kept going round and round on the IPOD without stopping- I finally said screw it and I cut it off (hit the x)- lo and behold most of my songs were unplayable. Basically my 2800 songs disappeared. On the IPOD- the song had a red circle with the square in the middle, and when you try to play it- it skips over it to the next song that is available. Why does this happen? I read you should not interrupt a sync. Is this the result? I had no choice but to interrupt it. I had to sync my library again. I was able to get all songs back on. What did I do wrong in this case? I prefer manually adding songs. Thx.
Itunes Horror
- Thread starter howie789
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When was the last time I used iTunes without crashing it? Can't remember :dunno:
Ace Bandage
The one and only.
I'll never understand why people don't manage their library.
If you're like me, you have a bunch of songs you don't listen too anymore but still keep around for nostalgia sake (i.e. not really into Chingy anymore now that I've graduated college). So if I don't want a song to play (i.e. Balla Baby), then I just un-click the box next to it. Now it won't play or sync to any of my devices. Out of the 3,000 songs I have only 1,200 of them are on my iPhone. Those 1,200 songs are also the only ones that play when I shuffle. If something happens and all my music is deleted off my phone, all I have to do is sync it to iTunes and it's automatically on there. I think this is an efficient way to manage music.
I also have all of my music backed up in the cloud and on an external hard drive just in case.
Side note: So does anyone else make sure that the song title, artist, album artist, composer, genre, year, track #, disc #, and album artwork are all correct on each of their songs? God I hope so...
If you're like me, you have a bunch of songs you don't listen too anymore but still keep around for nostalgia sake (i.e. not really into Chingy anymore now that I've graduated college). So if I don't want a song to play (i.e. Balla Baby), then I just un-click the box next to it. Now it won't play or sync to any of my devices. Out of the 3,000 songs I have only 1,200 of them are on my iPhone. Those 1,200 songs are also the only ones that play when I shuffle. If something happens and all my music is deleted off my phone, all I have to do is sync it to iTunes and it's automatically on there. I think this is an efficient way to manage music.
I also have all of my music backed up in the cloud and on an external hard drive just in case.
Side note: So does anyone else make sure that the song title, artist, album artist, composer, genre, year, track #, disc #, and album artwork are all correct on each of their songs? God I hope so...
