iTunes trouble: a cautionary tale

As perfect as Apple is, sometimes, their shit goes wrong. A couple of weeks ago I got an error message as I opened iTunes. My data file had been corrupted.

Shit.

It didn't mean that I had lost my songs, just a shitload of my playlists. Those of you with iPods know what kind of shit that can mean. When iTunes finally did open, it reverted to a playlist that was months old. In other words, songs I had deleted were still listed and hundreds of songs I had added did not appear.

Now, the actual songs were still in my iTunes Imported Music folder. But now I had to figure out which ones were missing from my library and re-add them. A shitload of my playlists were gone, so I had to recreate those, including three massive mix folders. Took several evenings to sort it all out.

As shitty (how many times can I use "shit") as this was, I actually was pleased with the results. The corrupt data ile forced me into doing some iTunes clean-up and housekeeping.

It also got me to subscribe to .mac to back-up all my data and sync all my info. Funny that Apple's fuck-up end up putting more money in their coffers from my .mac subscription fee.