Man this was a nasty glitch. I haven't been so upset about a computer malfunction in quite a while. I guess I am getting a bit too invested in the work I do sorting out new songs.

here's what happened.

I have been downloading from limewire (4.8.1) and listening in my itunes (4.7.1) recently added smart playlist.

I have been having problems in the past with downloads becoming actual items within the library, but I thought I got that all fixed, and when I downloaded songs, I had them become library items, not just proxies.

Tonite, I was downloading for four hours and all of a sudden, both my Recently Added playlist and all of todays songs were blasted from itunes.

I grabbed 250 songs from my shared folder and re-imported them, but lost all of my tags and their place in playlists.

This sucks. What can I do to keep this from happening. And, before I do all the mundane work of re-tagging these tunes... can I get the info back?

Thanks!!

Tor

I'm a little bit confused by this thread. I checked your previous thread. How are you setting up the most recently added smartlist in iTunes? What is your 1st condition? I've never used this type of smartlist. Mine are based on artist or decade of release date.

I can't fathom out how you could lose songs out of your iTunes music library.

I have noticed that if LW is extremely busy then iTunes might not import the songs. This issue was discussed in your previous thread but I didn't mention this point.

My workflow is: I generally add/change id3 tag info within iTunes after the songs have been imported. I will also compare the iTunes music library to my LW downld folder to ensure all songs have been imported. (On the odd occasion I may add id3 tag info using MP3 Rage before adding to iTunes or else sometimes after adding.) It should be noted that iTunes does not utilise all id3 tag types. That can be a pain in the butt! I need to experiment to find out exactly which ones it does recognise ... but still haven't got around to it.

Can you tell me your workflow with getting the songs into iTunes & at what point you adjust their id3 tags?

Oh man.... I a dufus. Thanks for weathering my thread. As you read in my previous thread, I did have a software glitch that was fixed by throwing out the pref file. I lost a lot of time there, so I was quick to blame the software. Here's what really happened:

I download mp3's (almost all play it seems) and listen to them in my recently added playlist. Then I throw most of them away. I do this by option deleting them and navagating a dialog box. Sort of troublesome, but I manage. Can you see where this is headed? The playlist was highlighted and I nuked it and it poped up a dialog box with a very similiar look as the one for nuking a song. Even though delete was by accident, I am used to throwing away playlists without harm to songs.... it was the option click that I was unaware of.

Thanks again for reading my mistake. Now I will try to figure out how to impliment that "whack current track" script I got with a key shortcut, to avoid this from happening in the future. (hope it won't whack a playlist by accident).

Tor