iTunes playlist question

[celyn100]

Husband (Mac user) got a new iPod that he tried to sync with existing iTunes library on our PC. In the process, his playlists have disappeared. "No problem," sez I, "I'll just replace the copy of iTunes Music Library.xml sitting in your My Music\iTunes folder with a backed-up copy

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[apollo_f1]

Havent had that problem...every update has deleted the targets for my Itunes shortcuts since my original install in November.

[celyn100]

For a while, on my work desktop, iTunes was creating a temp file for each song it played. Our IT people have the network set up so that everything in the user's documents and settings folder is saved on a network drive with each user granted 10 MB of space. I didn't know about the temp files until I suddenly got a message that there was no more disk space and the library couldn't be saved. I rebuilt my library twice before I figured out what was going on. Every time I shut down iTunes at the end of the day, I had to manually delete close to 100 temp files. Whee. At least the most recent version of iTunes seems to have fixed the problem.

I did figure out a fix for the playlists problem. In addition to importing an older copy of the XML file into the iTunes folder, I had to copy an older version of the library .itl file. That gave me the playlists, which I exported and saved copies of. Then I moved the most recent library and XML files back and imported the playlists.

[saintalbatross]

Dump iTunes. Sign up for Rhapsody and buy a Sansa. :)

We pay $14.95 a month for unlimted transfers to our mp3. I would almost never actually pay for a single song, album, srtist again.

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[celyn100]

For the most part we're using iTunes to manage a library ripped from CDs at lossless rates. A lot of our collection is orchestral or ethereal stuff that noticeably loses sound quality when compressed to mp3. (J has been seriously getting into obscure European neo-classical & neo-medieval bands for a few years now) But since I'm more of a music slut than J, I may have to check out Rhapsody now. Especially since my PDA plays mp3s. Thanks for the rec!

[apollo_f1]

I've found that some of the loss comes from what you are hooked up to when playing stuff back...

our jetta wants the ipod volume really low, and then it amplifies it all and sounds great (it has a 200 watt amp as part of the factory stereo), my truck wants the volume at maximum and then a lower volume on the stereo...it doesn't have much of an amp built in.

I guess it is all just part of finding the right balance. And most of my listening is through pc speakers or car speakers, neither of which are great platforms for listening to music.