iPod help needed

[_deano]

iPod and iTunes guru needed. I have wiped the playlist from my ipod (feck knows how) and this has synced with the laptop and they have now gone from laptop too!
i can't find the playlists anywhere, on either ipod or itunes. Is there a way of retriving them, be it a hack or software that i need to buy and download?

thanks
dj

[Fidgits]

eek...

how did that happen?

normally the PC takes over the ipod - can you find your itunes playlist (normally under my music>itunes)?

[TonyHetherington]

Has it actually deleted the files from your computer, or has it simply removed them from Itunes? Look in your "My Music" folder, the actual songs themselves may still be in there

[_deano]

The songs are still there, but the playlists are no longer on the ipod or iTunes. Was playing around with it last night and left it to sync and for got about it until this morning only to find that the playlists have gone

[SGirl]

_deano said:

The songs are still there, but the playlists are no longer on the ipod or iTunes. Was playing around with it last night and left it to sync and for got about it until this morning only to find that the playlists have gone

If the songs are all still on your PC, back them all up, then put them back into iTunes using File > Add File to Library or Add Folder to Library. Your iTunes .itl file might be corrupt - that's what happened to me. But you can get it all back if you still have the songs on the PC.

[Fidgits]

_deano said:

The songs are still there, but the playlists are no longer on the ipod or iTunes. Was playing around with it last night and left it to sync and for got about it until this morning only to find that the playlists have gone

as i said, find the iTunes directory, playlist (or something) directory - there should be the iTunes old database there somewhere - open it into itunes and all will be restored.

[_deano]

i only have one itl file and that's the current library file that is in use.
looked in the itunes folder and there are only two files in there. one is a xml file (music library) the other is a iTunes database)

[fidgits]

have you tried opening these with ITunes?

[_deano]

yep.
the xml file (when opened with notepad), gives me lots of text about the music, but nothing of use and the database file just opens up itunes with the current library and no playlists

[SGirl]

_deano said:

i only have one itl file and that's the current library file that is in use.
looked in the itunes folder and there are only two files in there. one is a xml file (music library) the other is a iTunes database)

Try moving or renaming those. When you next open iTunes, it should create new ones. Then you can import your music if it's still on the drive.

[_deano]

tried that, files are ok have the 6036 tracks back, but still no play lists.

[Pug106]

Can't you just add all of the music files into iTunes (Drag n Drop) and then snyc it then?

Or even better, don't use iTunes because its a pile of poo! Winamp is a nice player to use, at it does what you say, not the other way around!

[_deano]

spoke to Apple and they have told me that i've lost my playlists for good. crock of shite should have bought a mp3 player that wasn't reliant on one bloody crappy app. most annoyed.

[XJ_Wanty]

erm... dare I venture that this isn't the fault of your iPod but possibly user error. AFAIK, as a default setting, your 'puter will automatically sync with the iPod using what it has in it's iTunes library. If you connect your iPod and it has vastly different listings, you will actually be asked whether you want your iPod to update iTunes in a 'role reversal' - meaning you must have clicked 'yes' for this to happen...

[ThePassenger]

_deano said:

spoke to Apple and they have told me that i've lost my playlists for good. crock of shite should have bought a mp3 player that wasn't reliant on one bloody crappy app. most annoyed.

It's not.
You can use WinAmp and pretty much any 'music manager' type software will speak to the ipod.
It does sound like you clicked 'yes' to a prompt when you should of clicked 'no' though.

[_deano]

PEBCAK!