fucking itunes blew away all my music

[bas_I_am]

APPLE SUCKS ASS...

One thing I "thought" itunes was good for was organizing music into folders by artist\album title.

so I installed itunes... set my library location to "c:\media files"

it created a folder "c:\Media Files\Automatically Add to iTunes"

I opened a command prompt, and typed:
cd c:\music
for /d %i in (*) do move "%i" "c:\Media Files\Automatically Add to iTunes"

I watched c:\Media Files\Automatically Add to iTunes fill folders that were in c:\music, and watch all the folders in c:\music go away.... I aslo observed the new folders in "c:\Media Files\Automatically Add to iTunes" disappear as I assumed itunes was organizing into the folders and their contents to "c:\Media Files\Music"

when complete. . . I looked in itunes -> library -> music. . . nothing there. . .
looked in "c:\Media Files\Automatically Add to iTunes". . . nothing there. . .
looked in c:\music.. . all folders are gone

huh?????

in command window. . . executed:
dir c:\*.mp3 /s/b

"no file found"

maybe they are copied as hidden???
"no file found"

mother fuck!

same thing if I cut and paste out of windows explorer


mac/apple fucking sucks balls.

anyone who uses their products is a fool. . . including me in this instance.

[Mike]

The way i did it was to move the files using the 'consolidate music library' function within iTunes itself, and it worked like a charm. In theory what you did should have worked, but i guess using a command prompt to move into the auto add folder might produce unexpected results (and the 'automatically add to itunes' folder has been plagued with instability anyway)....

I really hope you can find your library again...

[TheBang]

Really? You did "Move" instead of "Copy"?

Also, why didn't you just use File > Add to Library?

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by TheBang

Really? You did "Move" instead of "Copy"?

because I have 300GB of music on a 1/2 TB drive

Originally Posted by TheBang

Also, why didn't you just use File > Add to Library?

because it only allows you to do one folder at a time

also. . . At one point, the auto add was working single file at a time on the folder "D:\Media Files"

but then it stopped... changed the folder name to "D:\MediaFiles" (no space) and it started working again...

At anyrate, almost 1/2 my stuff is on my ipod. wrote a batch file to get it off the pod and into the HD library....

save this to a file, copyipod.bat:

dir %1 /s/b > %temp%files.txt
for /f "tokens=3,4* delims=\" %%i in (%temp%files.txt) do copy %1\%%j\%%k %2\%%j%%k
del %temp%files.txt

execute from the command line:

copyipod "mounted path to ipod music folder" "path to auto add folder"

this worked on my ipod classic 160GB , mounted to drive letter I:

copyipod "I:\iPod_Control\Music" "D:\MediaFiles\Automatically Add to iTunes"

[TheBang]

Originally Posted by bas_I_am

because it only allows you to do one folder at a time

I'm pretty sure it scans recursively.

Edit: Yup, just tested and it does.

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by Mike

The way i did it was to move the files using the 'consolidate music library' function within iTunes itself, and it worked like a charm. In theory what you did should have worked, but i guess using a command prompt to move into the auto add folder might produce unexpected results (and the 'automatically add to itunes' folder has been plagued with instability anyway)....

I really hope you can find your library again...

the funny thing is. . . it worked manually as I was testing. . .

copied a couple of folders to a temp location, and tested as massaged the command line to get it right.... it worked...
then cd'd to the actual folder. . . hit the up arrow to reload the command from DOSKEY and it pissed on me.

Has apple ever heard of unit testing?

I am kicking myself in the ass as I had written a C# program do do this using the Windows Media Play object library, but I shut down my computer at work and couldnt vpn into my code to get it. . . I got impatient searched the internet. . saw that iTunes addded the auto add as part of iTunes 10, and went against my better judgement and installed it.

Now to make things worse... it appears that iTunes hosed my Windows Server back up.

I did a system state backup right before installing - and now wbadmin wont start.

I know someone will think thats a windows issue. . . I assure you. . . crApple shit on my machine as it always does.

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by TheBang

I'm pretty sure it scans recursively.

Edit: Yup, just tested and it does.

it didnt for me...

I did add folder. . .

multi selected. . and it crapped

[bas_I_am]

Originally Posted by TheBang

I'm pretty sure it scans recursively.

Edit: Yup, just tested and it does.

you running the mac version?

[bas_I_am]

oh shit. . . I might have a disk error. . . that might be the root cause. (might have to eat my words. . but not conceding yet)

while it ran my ipod batch, the disk failed with 'not ready for access'

[TheBang]

Originally Posted by bas_I_am

it didnt for me...

I did add folder. . .

multi selected. . and it crapped

you running the mac version?

Yeah, Mac. Just tested on the PC version, and it works there too.

Not multi-select. Recursively down the directory tree. Put them all in one big enclosing folder and select that.