7 years of music....gone :(

[floridaorange]

Re: 7 years of music....gone

I'd just buy a second gen Ipod touch off craigslist or the UK equivalent. Can't be more than 20 pounds.

[GregWhelan]

Re: 7 years of music....gone

Always sceptical of doing that though, people tend to sell their problems on there. Will have a look though, good idea, may get lucky.

[threehills]

Re: 7 years of music....gone

Google play is where it's at. I haven't touched my Ipod since it was released. Room for 20,000 sets, can stream or download them. Win Win

[ddr]

Re: 7 years of music....gone

Google play is where it's at. I haven't touched my Ipod since it was released. Room for 20,000 sets, can stream or download them. Win Win

Now you are relying on Google Play to be active and online for who knows how long, and relying on their servers instead of one in your house. IDK, good idea for those smaller sets or albums on the go, especially if you have an Android phone but idk if I could rely on something like that for a full blown back up.

[jay813]

Re: 7 years of music....gone

if any company is going to be running after armageddon its going to be google. plus when sites go offline they give you ample warning to download what youve uploaded if need be, but with google, thats just not a concern for me. all of my music is on google play now, in addition to the files on my hdd, which is considered my backup now.

id trust googles server farms over some western digital hard drive any day.

[floridaorange]

Re: 7 years of music....gone

[FM]

Re: 7 years of music....gone

Greg nothing wrong with your existing iPod. Sounds like iTunes done gone and f'd up. Which is why I HATE iTunes with a passion All the iPods and the like are flash memory; when they go you'll know because you can't read OR write to them.

In the future once you get things fixed, while it's OK to copy and run stuff back and forth:

#1. Have a backup elsewhere (or at least manage stuff manually (check box in iTunes) so when you copy in from wherever you have that copy still in that disk/folder). Do NOT manage your "library" in iTunes. One wrong screw up or needing to fix iTunes and it's either all gone or all the metadata is shot/a major PITA to fix with a new installation.

#2. Consider a 3rd party transfer program without having to lug through iTunes each time. CopyTrans is a simple and free alternative when you just want to copy stuff over each time (but there are others).

http://www.copytrans.net/copytransmanager.php

#3. As the extra step, safely remove hardware with Windows/USB. Seems to sometimes also be the reason stuff "disappears" since it can write quietly or not finish when you think it's done.

[FM]

Re: 7 years of music....gone

As for backups:

#1. Existing hard drive.
#2. External hard drive, whether or not on a RAID setup.
#3. Cloud backup.
#4. Burned to disc backup.

Silly, but you can't have enough when in theory any media can fail (or go missing) at any time.