H20nly wrote:this form of extortion reminds me of the Post Office. "did you have insurance?"beats me wrote:Because I told him many times to pony up the $25 a year for Match which would have completely solved this problem.
i'm guessing that the music is all still there... it's just not showing up in iTunes because the .xml file that points to all the music got overwritten. in other words... iTunes card catalog of his library got broken.
the dig you make about Windows (in this case)... is completely unwarranted... Windows does not have the Apple iBitch method of keeping track of your music. It has two kinds of scenarios:
Scenario 1: All the files/file types that Windows Media Player can play
Scenario 2: All the file types that Windows Media Player can't play
the rest is up to your hard drive. if it doesn't fail your music remains. no rules, no "Authorize this" computer. just drag, drop, play, done.
the music library is so much easier in Windows... sorry beats but it just is... if you want to get into the cloud backup solutions and all that... well, okay... but think about what you're saying. you have to spend 25 dollars a year to ensure your OS doesn't fuck your music up.
iTunes only makes buying music easier... not organizing it.
Windows method isn’t easier, maybe if you are a control freak and can’t stand your OS organizing it in a way that makes the most sense. I drop any song into iTunes and it automatically puts the song in iTunes/music/artist/album/[song name]. It creates the folder structure if it isn’t already there. I know exactly where to find song files if I need to.
I realize some people have some other preference like they want to put them in folders based on genre, or BPM, or “blue” or whatever. I personally don’t need anything like that. I can tag songs whatever genre and BPM I want to in iTunes tagging. If I want to group together songs for DJing or whatever I just create playlists. Simple. iTunes playlists also load in Traktor. What does Microsoft have on that front?
The point of Match isn’t just backup. You can also stream or download any track you have in the cloud to any computer or idevice tied to your Apple ID, no need for your music to take up drive space. Google, Amazon, and I assume Microsoft offer similar services which obviously means this isn’t just a gimmick offered by Apple.
However, what my friend is telling me is he had folders on the desktop holding songs based on his criteria and those folders completely disappeared. I’m thinking with a Time Machine backup on an external drive he should be able to pull them from there but I have no idea how that works.



