MacFixIt reader Vinko Tsui is one of the few readers who experienced a loss of his entire music library after updating to iTunes 5.0. This problem is infrequent, though it has occurred with previous ...

Our fellow editor at the naughty Fleshbot suffered a catastrophic hard drive crash that killed every file in sight, and needs our help piecing things together. Dashiell writes: So I lost my entire ...

In response to last week's Best of 2007 Smart Playlist, the Podophile weblog suggests another useful iTunes Smart Playlist: the Lost Music playlist. If you're a compulsive music collector like me, or ...

We previously reported on an issue where some users experience a loss of their entire music libraries after updating to iTunes 5.0. This problem is unfrequent, though it has occurred with previous ...

Though this is another entry perhaps more appropriate for Playlistmag.com, I’ve seen enough hand-wringing over this one in Macworld’s forums that it’s also worth examining here. The issue is what one ...

My music library is large, so I keep it on an external hard drive.<BR><BR>The music still exists, but iTunes lost track of it in the last iTunes update. I can add it by hand in iTunes itself, but this ...

Earlier this year, I upgraded my 2017 27" iMac from High Sierra to Monterey. I discovered that iTunes has been replaced by Apple Music. When I ported my iTunes folder, all the music came over (as near ...

Having owned a computer or two in your lifetime you understand that, like all things mortal, they and their component parts eventually fail. Should that component be the computer’s hard drive, you ...