My external hard drive was knocked off the table this morning by the bitch and it broke the internal read/write mechanism. Of course, it was my fault for having it out in the first place. I was in the middle of downloading stuff from iTunes when it happened! I had not backed it up since January, so I am hoping I can take it somewhere to get my data. My entire music, video, and photo libraries are on there, and I have been downloading almost everything in recent months! Fuck!!!!!!
Been researching how to get my iTunes library back from my iPod Classic. Apple is giving me the run-around, even though they apparently have an unstated, one-time do-over policy for its users. I download mostly from Amazon.com, because they are cheaper, I get extra points on my Amazon.com Visa, which allows me to get free $25 gift certificates (just got third one this year), and the files don't have all of the DRM, blahdy blah. I don't share music, but I still should be able to do with it as I please with any of my iPods or other music technologies. If anybody knows the secret wore to get them to do this, then let me know.
I have found lots of software online, and not too expensive, that can recover lost, deleted, corrupted, etc. files from your iPod, but they never discuss just plain copying everything back and then importing into your iTunes library again.
I did find a blog about how to unhide the files on the iPod Classic and then copy it all back to your hard drive and then re-import into iTunes, so I suppose I'll try that tonight. Anybody ever had any experience with this?