ilanbg
29-03-2006 20:18:46
Random music files on my iPod have become corrupted (anyone know how? ( ). Many of them were bought on the ITMS, and now apparently I can't download them again.
What can I do? Is this music lost forever?
And nobody suggest downloading them illegally; I hate the sound quality from pilfered MP3s.
compuguru
29-03-2006 21:23:29
Contact the ITunes support and tell them your situation. They have me a credit for a song that was corrupted when I downloaded it. shrug
theman2005
29-03-2006 21:25:41
i have had some songs corrupted before as well. What i did was look around in the system folder of iTunes on the iPod itself. Inside, there are a few files. The key file is the itunesDB file (no extension). Further down, there are "backup" or temporary files that reads Temp1 or the such which is usually over a megabyte in size, depending hwo many songs you have. Just rename your old itunesDB file to something else and make a copy of that temp file and name it to the itunescontrol file name. It worked wonders for me.
X\iPod_Control\iTunes
ilanbg
29-03-2006 21:29:17
[quote782a14b6e1="compuguru"]Contact the ITunes support and tell them your situation. They have me a credit for a song that was corrupted when I downloaded it. shrug[/quote782a14b6e1]
The song was only corrupted recently; it used to work. Would I still get credit?
And it's like dozens of songs too. (
[quote782a14b6e1="theman2005"]i have had some songs corrupted before as well. What i did was look around in the system folder of iTunes on the iPod itself. Inside, there are a few files. The key file is the itunesDB file (no extension). Further down, there are "backup" or temporary files that reads Temp1 or the such which is usually over a megabyte in size, depending hwo many songs you have. Just rename your old itunesDB file to something else and make a copy of that temp file and name it to the itunescontrol file name. It worked wonders for me.
X\iPod_Control\iTunes[/quote782a14b6e1]
I'm on a mac. I'm pretty sure tampering with my music files is what fucked them up in the first place. Plus I'm not even sure what you just said, but maybe that's because I don't use PCs. shrug
Thanks to ye both though.