Help: Weird iTunes/Music File Problem

[Number82]

I know alot of you guys know more about computers than me, so I figured I'd ask it on here.

My brother had all of his songs on the computer AND his iPod. The computer crashed. We were unable to fix the computer without restoring it to factory settings and losing everything. So he lost all of his music on the computer, but it stayed on his iPod. The music would play on the computer thru iTunes if the iPod was plugged in. He went thru steps to transfer the music from his iPod to the computer and it worked, BUT it came with a glitch: all of the music files are four random letters (ex. ACWZ). If you're in iTunes, the actual song info comes up (same with iPod), but if you go thru the actual files on the computer they're in the 4 random letter format.

Any ideas?

 

[DIAF]

I know alot of you guys know more about computers than me, so I figured I'd ask it on here.

My brother had all of his songs on the computer AND his iPod. The computer crashed. We were unable to fix the computer without restoring it to factory settings and losing everything. So he lost all of his music on the computer, but it stayed on his iPod. The music would play on the computer thru iTunes if the iPod was plugged in. He went thru steps to transfer the music from his iPod to the computer and it worked, BUT it came with a glitch: all of the music files are four random letters (ex. ACWZ). If you're in iTunes, the actual song info comes up (same with iPod), but if you go thru the actual files on the computer they're in the 4 random letter format.

Any ideas?

This happened to me once when i tried to pull some songs off my ipod with ephpod. luckily in my case it was just about 40 songs so i renamed them all by hand, but in your case that's probably not an option. Since the tag info was preserved, maybe you can find a utility that will rename your files for you based on the tag info in the song's ID3.

 

[the kid 05]

how much was downloaded online from itunes? If a good majority of it was delete everything fromt he COMPUTER including the itunes library files, email apple via support and tell them your hdd crashed, your allowed a 1 (sometimes 2 time) redownload of EVERYTHING you've bought from the store

 

[YosemiteSam]

I prefer MP3s with tags. Screw iTunes. Cheers Amazon.com's music

 

[Number82]

how much was downloaded online from itunes? If a good majority of it was delete everything fromt he COMPUTER including the itunes library files, email apple via support and tell them your hdd crashed, your allowed a 1 (sometimes 2 time) redownload of EVERYTHING you've bought from the store

Maybe less than 10% was bought from iTunes, everything else was downloaded thru websites, torrents, p2p or ripped from CDs.

Before the crash songs would be titles properly in iTunes, and the actualy file name would be something like "The Who-Pinball Wizard.mp3", but since he put the songs back on the computer thru his iPod since it was restored to factory defaults the same song will now read "AFDJ.mp3" and the songs are all randomly organized into folders titled "00F1, 00F2, 00F3, etc." Its really random.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Maybe less than 10% was bought from iTunes, everything else was downloaded thru websites, torrents, p2p or ripped from CDs.

Before the crash songs would be titles properly in iTunes, and the actualy file name would be something like "The Who-Pinball Wizard.mp3", but since he put the songs back on the computer thru his iPod since it was restored to factory defaults the same song will now read "AFDJ.mp3" and the songs are all randomly organized into folders titled "00F1, 00F2, 00F3, etc." Its really random.

Check out mp3tag. If the songs are tagged, you will see it and can rename the songs.

 

[MonsterD]

Check out mp3tag. If the songs are tagged, you will see it and can rename the songs.

Yup if most of them were not Itunes downloads then you should be able to use one of many programs that automatically convert tags into names,titles etc.