![]() ![]() The person trying to help me didn't know enough about AppleScript to make it work for the Mac, so it hit a dead end. However, I'm on a Mac and the process just didn't work out. There might have been a few duplicates, but far fewer than 14,000 tracks, so I could work those ones out manually. The idea was to identify each track by the file size, converting that size into a lengthy numeric code. I spoke to someone who said he could easily build me a script for PC, to take all the details off the iPod, into a text file, and then match it back up with all the tracks in iTunes. No software can help me with this easily, as with that many songs, I really need things like my grouping information and star ratings, etc. So I have 25k songs in total, but it's just the 14k without tags. It seems when you tick the box to allow iTunes to convert your files to a lower bitrate when syncing to the iPod, to save space on the device, it removes all that information. I've been investigating this for a year, now. (The tags are all safely on the iPod still and I am petrified of losing or breaking or accidentally writing over the device!) It's not something I can easily recreate, short of manually re-entering all the details, which I have calculated will take me about 5 years, at the rate I'm going. Unluckily, on importing into iTunes (or any other software / copying to my phone, etc.), it strips away all the tag info for about 14,000 songs, so all I have is the song titles - no artist info, grouping details, etc. ![]() ![]() My external hard drive died and I lost all my iTunes files. ![]()
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