itunes importing problem: September 2009

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Burning with CD-RW ...

i recently bought some CD-RW so in my mind i can save some money and instead of buying a 50 back and just burn new cds every week, i can buy 5 CD-RWs and just rewrite over and over until the cd goes bad.
SMART PLAN RIGHT?
wellllll after i burned the first time(went good), when i came back to burn over it to create a new cd itunes says it needs a blank cd to write on.

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO MAKE ITUNES WRITE OVER A CD... which is allowed to be written over(CD-RW)
if there is no answer or solution where can i email itunes producers to ask them to add it to a future update.

THANKS
Greg

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Can't burn with iTunes 8.2 or 9.0-- ...

Recently, when i bought my iPod Touch, I was instructed to update to iTunes 8.2; upon doing so, I found I could no longer burn CDs; the songs all sounded fuzzy. Today, I updated to iTunes 9.0, and the same thing happened: the songs all sounded fuzzy on the burned CD.

Other things you should know:
(1) I tried to burn a CD using Windows Media Player; those songs sound fine. Thus, I have reasonable assurance the problem is with iTunes.

(2) For some reason, I have no problem burning CDs with my laptop (which I also updated to iTunes 8.2).

Can someone help me out with this? (And please don't say to download it again. I downloaded 8.2 twice and now 9.0 once, and nothing has improved.)

Thank you for your anticipated assistance.

MRD

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AudioBook Import and "Part of a Gapless ...

Do these options need to be checked (on) for audio books? I have checked Remember playback and Skip when shuffling, but not sure about the gapless album option. If they are not on, Will I have to start each new disk segment manually or will it play automatically, anyway?

I want to upload the audio books to a Shuffle, which uses voice notification and don't want to have to click my way through trying to find a track.

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Gap Between Songs. ...

Hello,
I know when burning a Audio CD it gives the option of 'none' seconds gap between songs ... but is there anyway to get rid of the 1 second gap between songs when burning in the MP3 CD option?

Thanks.

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Importing a directory structure ...

I just wish to verify (and clarify) what I've read here.

iTunes cannot import music based on a directory structure and keep the artist/album/song structure intact. It can only import based on some header information in the song files themselves, irregardless of whether these headers are useful to the user or not.

Is that a true statement?

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Moving Itunes library from an external ...

Hi, So I have 2 emacs, yes I know its time to upgrade (different topic). One is a 1g the other is an 800. So the 1g houses the majority of my itunes library but has the data stored on an external drive. Unfortunately the 1g has crashed fairly severely. I now want to get the 800 machine to use the external drive as its itunes library. I am not concerned about the existing library on the 800. In the past I have had no problems taking an existing library and putting it on a hard drive, but in this case the library is already on the hard drive and I guess the directories to the data is not on the 800. I hope I am being fairly clear in describing this.

TIA,

Jon

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.m4b audiobooks crash itunes on import ...

i have been trying for a month in earnest to find a way around this problem. every time i try to import a .m4b file into itunes it starts the "determining volume level" and then itunes crashes.

i contacted apple support and all they suggested was to uninstall and do a subsequent reinstall of all apple software which i did.

i am running vista home ultimate i86. amd phenom 9600 quad core 2.3ghz with 4 gigs of ram

please reply if you have any suggestions. thanks in advance~

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laptop crash - resync iPod and iTunes? ...

My laptop had a major crash and had to be wiped. My music is backed up on an external drive and iTunes recognizes the stuff I've bought, so that's sitting in my newly reinstalled iTunes program, but how do I get it to import the songs (and playlists) that are sitting on my iPod?

I don't want to have to reinstall all that music from the external drive and put it all back on the iPod if I can avoid it

Thanks.

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my computer says it cannot access itunes ...

My computer says it cannot access itunes because internet connection cannot be made. I am able to get on internet. How can I fix this?

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Need help setting up multiple libraries ...

My computer recently crashed. I was able to move my son's itunes from his ipod to my PC using a suggestion I found on here by MacMuse (thanks!). Now, I am trying to move my music...tried the same pathway but my PC is telling me that my ipod is syncing with an existing library (my son's) and do I want to erase and sync? I don't want to erase my tunes and I do want to create my own library - how do I do it?

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Itunes Won't Burn Audio CD - Slow! ...

I have wasted nearly 10 CD-R's trying to get iTunes to burn an audio CD. I've burned cd's on this machine before with now problem. I think the issue started after I downloaded the 8.1 updates.

I can create a playlist and press "burn cd." It seems the CD is burning fine through the first track but after that it goes INSANELY SLOW and just stops in the middle of the 2nd track. I know it's not my driver, as I've been able to burn CD's from Windows Media Player...the problem with that is that MWP doesn't support the mp4 format. This is such a pain in the butt!

I have uninstalled and re-installed iTunes about 5 times with no solution. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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iTunes not burning disks properly? ...

Being a DJ I need to burn CDs all the live long day but recently I've had some problems.
Once the CD has finished burning it no longer appears in the iTunes window under "CD" and sometimes it will not eject...
Once I do manage to get the CD out it doesn't play on many CD players and when it does. not all the tracks work and some of them have a "scratchy" sound in the background.
I need to get this sorted ASAP as I need to burn a batch of disks by 2moro.

Any ideas?

I've update iTunes and fully updated my pc (vista SP2)

Thanks

Dan.

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Import form TiVo did not work ...

I am trying to import a m-peg-4 movie converted with TiVo application so I can view it on my iphone. My problem is that when, in itunes I choose file import and choose the file, nothing happens. I look for the file in my TV shows, Movies and music directories and it is not there. Why is the import not working?

Thanks

Ratmann

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Songs in album showing up seperately in ...

Hi, when I import albums into my itunes library that I downloaded they don't just become one file like they do when I rip directly from cd, all the songs show individually. This is annoying as it looks untidy and it also makes it harder to jump to an album.
Is there anyway I can solve this?

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genius problems ...

every couple of days my genius begins to update but always ends in the same result. the "gathering info from the library" part freezes up about halfway through the proccess. so i have been disregarding it for a while, until i realized that without completing that step, i cant really make a genius playlist with any of my songs--because itunes couldnt get the information on it. has anyone else had this problem. help?

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Beatles Remastered CDs - Last Track ...

I'm importing all the new Beatles Remastered 2009 cds, and a couple so far (A Hard Day's Night, The White Album disc 2) fail to import the last track. iTunes thinks the last track is actually the Mini-Documentary.

Every song but the last one imports fine. iTunes shows the last track as being over an hour long, so something is causing iTunes to read the track improperly.

Nothing seems to be working.

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Can't burn a disc w new iTunes - help ...

Hi - trying to burn a cd-r w music (open source) using new iTunes. Can't get cd to register in iTunes. What am I missing?
Thanks for all help -
Lillian

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movies into itunes????? ...

How do i get home movies on my pc onto itunes?????when i try 'add file' nothing happens????

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Want to burn track titles as well as ...

Can someone tell me how to burn a playlist to a CD and have the song titles burned as well?

All my CD's just say "Track 1", "Track 2", "Track 3", . . . I know it must be something simple but I can't find the answer anywhere.

Thanks.

Gaylin

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NOT BURNING "AUDIO" CD!!! .. ...

OK.. So i've imported this album on iTunes.. and i want to burn another copy on a CD in Audio format. Now i tried bruning it on mp3 format and it worked.. but when i tried burning it in an Audio format.. first time it burned half the songs.. and the other half didnt work! And the second time it burned the 15 songs in less then 2mins.. but nothing was actually burnt on the CD! It was blank.. but it was formatted that it had burned the whole album, yet there was no data or songs actually on there- just the names of the songs. This is so strange...

Can some please help!! Thanks heaps.. xxx

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iPod full or not? ...

Itunes tells me that it can't synch, because there isn't enough space on my iPod. My iPod however, says there's plenty of space (over 6GB, in fact.)How can I get this space used up?

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CD track times don't show up ...

I have imported 13K songs from commercial CDs. Lately, the import seems to go well, but the individual track times are listed as 'not available.' These songs cannot be played or downloaded to an iPod. When I check the hard drive, the songs are there with full file size. I import using Apple Lossless. I have uninstalled ver 8 and ver 9 and reinstalled both with no change. I cannot find any help for this topic; when I spoke with Apple all they could tell me is that they don't 'guarantee that iTunes will work with any third party CD, only with iTunes Store'. Fine, except this computer/software combination has worked for the other 13,000 CD tracks, why would it quit now? Songs previously imported that have the track time listed play perfectly.

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Importing songs/downloading podcasts ...

Hello folks,

I have a problem with iTunes that I have been trying to solve over the past year and a half that renders the program unusable. For the record, I run a Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3 machine, with a Pent 4 CPU, 2 gigs Ram.

When importing songs, playing music, or downloading podcasts, my computer will eventually return a memory write error, and iTunes will crash shortly after. It does not matter in how large or small a batch of songs are being imported, how many or few podcasts are being imported. Eventually the system will return the error regardless. In addition, this error occurs only in the drive where the music files themselves are housed. I separate my program installs, my files, and my system files across three different drives, so it's only whatever read/write processes that iTunes uses when accessing files that causes the memory error.

Before anyone starts talking about how this is a dangerous sign that the drive that houses my music is about to die, this is an isolated error that only occurs when iTunes is run, and never occurs at any other time in the five years I've owned the computer. Once this error occurs and iTunes shuts down, my computer will continue to return errors with the mft file table, which will disappear once I restart my computer with no harm done to the files or any losses.

In order to fix this problem, I have uninstalled iTunes, reinstalled newer and older versions of iTunes, as well as followed the official procedures for completely stripping iTunes from my system in order to install completely cleanly, in order to see if there is a conflict between older installs of iTunes or other programs.

Does anyone have any idea what might be the problem? I can only assume that iTunes, for whatever reason, is not playing well with my system set up. My system specs are all above the minimum required to run iTunes according to Apple, so I do not -think- this is a problem with the computer running out of memory. I have also run itunes with a plentiful amount of free space on the drive that both houses the program and the drive that houses the music. Even vague shots in the dark are welcome at this point.

Thank you very much, everyone.

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How to export music from your Ipod that ...

Hi everyone,

Is there a way (burning a cd, export to your windows files or add to your Itunes library) to export/copy from your Ipod, music that you haven't bought on Itune Store but that you've put on your Ipod? The music I already have from my previous mp3's that I transfered on my new Ipod 4th generation and I want it to copy into my Itunes library and/or create a file on my window's hardrive. How can I do that?

Thanks

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Error trying to Transfer Purchases ...

My computer recently crashed and I had to re-install Windows XP. While I was trying to transfer purchases from My Ipod to Itunes Library, I keep getting an Error message that says "Attempting to copy to the disc "C:\" failed. An unknown error has occured (-69).

Please help... I don't want to have to spend hundreds of dollars on songs again...

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itunes 9.0 import error ...

After upgrading to 9.0 I attempted to import two CD's. I can play songs from the CD and see all the track info, but when I click import CD, I get the error: "Error occured while converting

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urgently need someone's know how ...

can anyone help me???

i have had itunes on my laptop for 10 months without any problems, until now...

when i used to burn a cd in to itunes it created it's own folder (with the details i had just input), in the 'music' section of windows, now the music goes in to a folder named 'unknown album'.

if i drag albums that i have named direct from itunes on to my external hard drive the track names and other details don't come with it.

i need it to be like it was before because i run a dj programme called serato that reads itunes, i have so much music that i need to keep it on the external and import only the tracks i need when out djing.

can anyone help me???

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Disc won't eject anymore after burning ...

With the new iTunes 9.0 update my discs won't eject after I burn them. No matter how many times I smash the eject button on my disc drive the only way I can eject it is to restart my computer, and frankly doing this every time I want to burn a disc is becoming a joke.

Anyone else having the same problem so that I know its a local setting? Or anyone know a fix?

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Extremely slow importing and library ...

Hello,

I have my entire iTunes library stored on my Windows Server 2008 x64 Std machine, which is connected to my Windows 7 x64 Ultimate workstation by gigabit Ethernet (using a crossover link). I have very fast transfers in both directions when transferring files (due to the high-performance RAID arrays on both machines, speeds of ~100MByte/s are common).

I run iTunes locally on my Windows 7 machine. I hold down shift (the first time after a re-install of iTunes) when loading iTunes and point it to the mapped SMB share holding the .itl library file and all my music, etc. It loads OK and I can play all my content. However, when I try to add content to the library (by importing a CD or copying MP3/AAC files into the library) or alter meta data (changing album name or adding cover art, for example), everything slows down. It takes (on average) 20 minutes to import a CD (from a virtual drive on my workstation to avoid delays caused by the optical-to-magnetic stage of the import process) and importing files takes what seems like forever to complete.

This issue first appeared with iTunes 8.2 or 8.3 (I can't remember quite which version) and still exists in iTunes 9.0.

I have read online that some people have experienced slowness in SMB transfers in one direction and blamed it on a faulty cable or NIC. I have replaced the cable and swapped the NICs in both machines, but have experienced no performance improvement.

Is there anything I can do to help?

This issue also presented when I was running Windows Vista x64 on my workstation. I am using the 64-bit version of iTunes for Windows.

Many thanks in advance,

Sarah

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HOW DO I IMPORT MY MUSIC BACK FROM MY ...

I have lost my music from i tunes and i have updated to itunes 9 but it rejects
my ipod ? I want to reimport my music from i pod back to itunes how can it be done ? please

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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Lost Music from I tunes ...

Please help i have lost all my music from itunes library i think i may have hit
consolidate music by mistake i have found the back up file but when i try import
the music library xml i get a error saying "some songs in the file itunes music
library xml were not imported because they could not be found ". I know they
are there but i cant find them thank you

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Split Albums ...

I am moving my music library to a new computer.
I was successful in importing my folder of music.
However, several albums are duplicated with one selection of the album on each appearance of the album.

Any thoughts on how to get all the album selections into one occurence of the album?

Regards,
Russell Cox

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Restoring media to iTunes ...

I have an external HD with all my iTunes media on it - how do I rstore it to iTunes? My OS is Windows 7 - thank you.

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Transfering iTunes ...

My computer recently crashed and that's were I kept all my iTunes. I can't even turn on the computer so I put my iTunes on a different computer. It's iTunes 8 and I hooked up my 2g iPod touch to it and transfered all the purchases is there any way to get the songs from my iPod that I didn't downlaod from iTunes I burned from a cd onto that computer?

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Burn Disc icon has disappeared ...

I've tried everything to find the little bugger - supposedly in the bottom right corner - all I can see is the two Genius icons. Does anyone know a short-cut to burn audio CDs without the BURN DISC icon? Or perhaps how to bring it back to the itunes window?

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****HHHEEELLLPPP ...

I had a friend burn songs from his itunes library onto a DVD so i could sync it to my ipod but when i insert the disc into my itunes the 'import CD' button doesnt appear what do i do?

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Highest quality import settings for ...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AooGuxvheq40oC0etoPY8yvty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090909143724AALIlSP

What are the highest quality import settings for iTunes 9?

I just got iTunes 9 and I want to know what the HIGHEST quality import settings are with the exception of Apple Lossless. I usually import cd's as

AAC
Stereo Bit Rate: 320kbps
Sample Bit Rate: 48.000 kHz
Channels: Stereo
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Now when I go into the custom menu and try to set these settings, it gives me an error message that reads the following:

"The selected combination of bit rate and sample rate is not allowed."
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I was thinking about using WAV but I want a format that will be compatible with other/future personal media players as well such as Zune's and Creative MP3 players. Right now I have an iPod and don't plan on changing anytime soon. I just want the highest quality sound for my ears to hear.

so, What is the highest for AAC?
Should I switch to WAV?

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importing AIF

hi i am importing using aif format but would like to save to my ipod in a smaller format

can itunes do this ??

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how many movies can the itunes library ...

i have quit a few on there, and i want to keep them on there, aswell as add more. i'm just worried that if i go to buy a movie it'll say it can't hold anymore movies

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How to burn DVD's in iTunes ...

I have purchased

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A bug on iTunes 9, regarding ...

Am I the only one experiencing this? It happens on multi-disc albums when in album grid view.

The tracklisting order is messed up. For example - all the first track of a 2 disc album is stuck together along with the other track number 2's and 3's. And yes, all of these tracks are labeled with their "of Disc number" and everything. Believe me I'm very clean with my iTunes music.

Before this, it was all fine. Now it's messed up. You'd have to make the "Disc #" tab appear and click on it. But when you leave the window and come back to it, it goes back to the messed up order, which leaves you in having to click it again.

So I hope they fix this asap.

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Installing iTunes on 64-bit Vista ...

Hi,

I am having a slight problem.

I am trying to install iTunes on a 64-bit Vista machine.

I downloaded the file from the iTunes website.

The error message I get (at the beginning of the install process) says:

The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windos in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance.

I know I am not in safe mode.

Please help.

Thanks

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Microsoft Synch for car ...

How do I use a 60 GB classic iPod with the Microsoft Synch system in my car? Specifically, I want to use the iPod itself to browse for music not the car stereo or car stereo voice mode. It is too difficult to browse and drive using the car stereo. Is there an iPod setting that I am missing to do this? Thanks!

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itunes ...

how can I move my music from my computer to an external hard drive while not losing my playlists? I would then like to map itunes to the external drive. Any suggestions?

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Importing audiobooks-itunes-ipod ...

I have made a playlist folder- Audiobooks------ Then I made a playlist under that for each audiobook --- 1)Civil War 2)John Adams.

Now when I first imported my book --- I put in Audiobook under Genre. I didn't put Audiobook in the Option list (should I?)

After I put them in the playlists, do I transfer them to the ipod?

After I put them in the ipod, and I put another book in ---- does this erase the first books from the ipod?

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Problems adding downloaded mp3 files to ...

It worked fine yesterday. Then I downloaded the new Itunes 9 version this morning and now when I try to add mp3 files, I can perform the steps but when I look in my library they are not there. The "Recently Added" folder for the library is gone. They are however, listed in a "Shared" folder but the files cannot be moved or played and I am unable to put them on my Ipod.

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iTunes creates multiple Albums for ...

Another thing about iTunes that is appearing to me as an oddity: I have CDs of a particular pop artist (Laura Pausini, say) who will perform about 80% of the songs on the CD alone, but will have a couple of songs sung with other artists (who are listed together with her in the "performing artists" field). When I place a CD in my computer, and iTunes begins to rip it, it creates an 'album' in album view for every combination of artists, such that one album is created for Laura Pausini's CD, "Io Canto," where she sings about 13 of the album's 16 total tracks, and another, one-track album is created for a single duet between an Laura Pausini and Johnny Halladay, and yet another album is when Laura Pausini sings with the Italian artist, Tiziano Ferro. Thus Laura Pausini's solitary CD, 'Io canto,' is the source of four CD's in album view, as well as in the file structure one see's under the iTunes folder. You can imagine what happens in Eros Ramazzotti's "e2" 2-CD album, where about 20 of the 31 total tracks are Eros himself singing with other artists. What a nightmare!

Again, this does not happen in Windows Media Player, and I've done my due diligence by hunting through the on-line help for iTunes, but to no avail thus far.

I'd be most grateful for some help, here.

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iTunes Airport Extreme w/ External HD ...

I currently have a wireless set up that includes an Airport Extreme (the model right before Apple came out with the dual 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands), a Lace 500GB 7200RPM HD which is where I store/download too from iTunes. My question is this. Why is my download speed so much slower when I have my HD plugged into the Airport Extreme and faster when I unplugged the external HD from the Airport Extreme and plug it into my MacBook Pro (average time to download 1 TV show is over 7 hours if HD is plugged into Airport Extreme)/(average time to download 1 TV show is roughly 20 minutes when HD is plugged directly into my MacBook Pro? I was thinking about buying a Time Capsule, but if the speed is anything like what I am getting now downloading from iTunes, I really dont want to mess with it. Any suggestions?

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Can't burn with iTunes 8.2 or 9.0-- ...

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Drag and Drop Import Duplicating! ...

Hello,

For a while now, I have been adding music files (mainly MP3s) into iTunes by dragging and dropping a folder containing them into the music library. I have iTunes keeping my music organised and copying them to a specific HDD however I can't seem to trust it to do it properly. Sometimes it is fine but sometimes it duplicates some of the songs so I have two of the same song with file names song.mp3 and song1.mp3. It is all very well iTunes 9 having new features but if it can't do the simplest of tasks...

I am using iTunes 9 but it also did it with the previous version. I realise I can use File

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Purchased music does not play, keeps ...

I just upgraded to Itunes 9 and my Imac G5 died. I just erased my classic Ipod and reinstalled all the music from my new PC. Now some of the music I purchased will not play. It keeps asking me to authorize it and I do and it tells me the computer is authorized. Do I have to re-buy the music again?
My FAVORIYE ITUNES ORIGINAL by Jack Johnson is the one that will not play and its not available anymore on Itunes.
Please Help..I listen to this everyday and it has live tracks and it's just the best!!!
Thanks

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itunes to external hard drive ...

I would like to take my audiobooks off my computer and put on my external hard drive. Do I have to set up the itunes program onto my external hard drive in order to pull out my audiobooks later?

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Moved my Music and now my Playlists are ...

Hi All,
I moved my Music from one PC to another as per the instructions given in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329?viewlocale=en_US . But after migrating I noticed that my playlists are missing. I see all the songs but my playlists are missing. can somebody please help me on this ? I had so many of them. Creating them all over again will take years

Thanks in advance..

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