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By Anonymous - 21/09/2009 20:22 - United States

Today, I got a new computer because my old one crashed, deleting all music, photos, and documents. I still had all my music on my iPod though, and went to sync it to the new computer. By accident, my younger brother pulled the cord out before it was done, deleting all 3,000 songs forever. FML
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cupcakeqt 0

through the apple store you can re-download your purchases up to 3 times. there's how-to's all over the internet, good luck!!

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flyboy57 0

invest in an external hard drive for backing your stuff up.

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bugmenotmofo 34

YDI for not backing up your stuff

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pastrychef_fml 0

Wow 3,000. Your life REALLY sucks. There's no coming back from that. :( This is NOT a FML, you can always redownload your music or rip the CDs again.

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glassisass 0

dude... do you know how much money 3000 songs cost...

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anony_moose 0

yeah its 0$ on limewire...

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allmidnighteyes 10

Except that Limewire is a piece of trash. If you're gonna steal music, steal it the right way and torrent it. Using Limewire to steal music is like taking a stock V6 Rustang with neons to the track against a fully tuned twin-turbo'd NSX

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aero_fml 0

Nah you can't compare it like that. Limewire is like using your Prius to go to Whole Foods and buy an organic salad for $20, whereas using a Torrent (uTorrent ftw!) is like running a Murcielago through the Nurburgring. For free. Anyways my point is Priuses are for buttlovers and slowfolk. What were we talking about again?

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allmidnighteyes 10

Change that Murcielago to a McLaren F1 LM and we have an agreement.

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cryssycakesx3 22

I love the f1 track!

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ohreally123 0

but if you were syncing it through itunes, the songs would have been deleted anyways

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movies12 0

That is why there are these things called BACK UP DISCS. Always back up ur songs. That must really, really suck I would literally BLOW UP if that happend to me, but like I said after ur done downloading them all back on BACK THEM UP!!!!.

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GeekLogic 0

and hoe do you intend to pull data off an ipod?

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Beadabee 2

how do you actually syncronise songs from your ipod to ur comp???

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chicagochick 0

There is actually software you can use to do that. I can't remember the name, but I used it when I got a laptop and had to move all my songs onto it. It worked for me. There are also good tutorials on how to do it.

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KatieGoesRawrr 0

If the sunk button on the bottom of the screen of itunes doesn't work (if it doesn't come up with all the songs) the same thing happened to me, you can use a free trial of Xilisoft Ipod rip (i think that's what it's called(just google it)) that's what I used. It works. lol. your #69.. sry couldn't help myself.

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Me27 0

There are programs all over the 'net. GOOGLE! OP - YDI for not backing up ever.

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KatieGoesRawrr 0

Sorry about spelling and grammar. I use Mac OX btw.

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DeathBoy 0

iTunes doesn't allow you to recover your songs that way (to prevent the iPod being used as a tool for piracy). If you plugged the iPod into a new computer which it wasn't synced with, it would give you the option to leave it as it was, or wipe it, so you could begin to sync with the new computer from then on. Quite a few people select this without realising the implications and wipe their iPod. Hell, I've done it. If you bought the songs, you can get them back via iTunes (as people have mentioned), if you didn't, I feel bad for you, but obviously, you know you can't really complain, right? If that's the case, maybe treat it as an opportunity to explore and find some great new music while you hunt down the stuff you used to have :) Unfortunately, in either case, the best solution is what everyone else has mentioned: if it's important to you, keep a backup. Hope you get your stuff back soon!

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fdgaf_SCL 2

Yes, but fortunately Apple doesn't do a whole lot to keep you from taking them right off anyway. Plug in your iPod, enable it as an external drive, go under "My Computer" and go to the drive. Enable hidden files (it depends on what OS you're running, and I can't remember how to do it atm, but that's easy enough to Google). All of the music will be in subfolders, each file given a randomly-assigned four-letter name - but each file still carries everything iTunes needs to read & label it. From there you just pull it off the iPod, put it in files, and import into iTunes. The end, no program installations necessary.

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