<![CDATA[Itunes warning!!]]>Just because I would have liked to get a warning on this I thought i'd share with everyone. If you have itunes/ipod BE CAREFUL about the new itunes 9.0.xxx because it has some software in it that can tell if the music in your library was legally downloaded. As all of my music is not legal lol it wiped some of mine. From what I can gather anything i have downloaded with bit torrent stayed and is ok... but my older music that i had downloaded with limewire and just kept thru out the years got wiped so now i have to load just THAT music back onto my computer from my ipod... Just thought i'd save anyone else the headache that i endured...

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Jim;288003 wrote:
Yeah but your "jacked" so its ok right kossick? lol jk

werd haha

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SPANISH-RICE;288011 wrote:
you still use limewire??

Sure do, why not? There are no viruses to be had on my mac.

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treimche;288007 wrote:
Just did the update tonight on my mac and everything is there. I use Limewire.

you still use limewire??

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276405https://fargostreet.com/post/276405Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:57:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:33:01 GMT]]>Just did the update tonight on my mac and everything is there. I use Limewire.

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Kossick;287973 wrote:
I'm just making the assumption that there isnt a lot of discussion about it all over because not that many people hold onto music that long and have been using different things like bit torrent for years... I'm just a tard with a decent collection of Backstreet Boys...hahaha

Yeah but your "jacked" so its ok right kossick? lol jk

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276397https://fargostreet.com/post/276397Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:14:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:02:18 GMT]]>I don't think iTunes even uses DRM anymore. I thought they got rid of it a while ago.

Maybe it's something with Genius. When you enable that, it sends information on your entire library back to Apple. I honestly think that it was an isolated incident with your machine.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276373https://fargostreet.com/post/276373Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:02:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:40:00 GMT]]>I'm just making the assumption that there isnt a lot of discussion about it all over because not that many people hold onto music that long and have been using different things like bit torrent for years... I'm just a tard with a decent collection of Backstreet Boys...hahaha

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276367https://fargostreet.com/post/276367Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:40:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:37:52 GMT]]>Yeah it completely wiped them off my hard drive, i even did a search for any type of file and typed in the title of one of the songs and its nowhere on my entire hard drive. When it happened I was freaking out and of course assuming that I did something wrong but when I looked more into it on the Apple Support page discussions everyone was ranting about the newest itunes and a handfull of them had the same problem I did... like I said it kept my downloads from Bit Torrent which is good cause thats like the last 2 years of music for me. In "My Shared Folder" where my music is kept anything I downloaded using limewire was a single file and bit torrent obviously had folders, anything in the folders was fine but now thats all thats left lol

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276366https://fargostreet.com/post/276366Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:37:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:27:01 GMT]]>I've had no issues at all and there's been no uproar on digg or reddit so I'm assuming this is something else.

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imprttuner2;287958 wrote:
Depending on how the files that are downloaded using bit torrent are ripped initially or if an ISO is downloaded they can still retain the DRM.

... ... You do know what DRM stands for right? Digital Right Management.

Yes, you can download a DRM file encoded file, but you need proper rights to play it.

We're not talking about ISO's, and files that are ripped from CD's don't have DRM built in. We're talking about iTunes and music files... Anyway, like he's already stated there are alot of non-DRM files that didn't get deleted / moved / mysteriously disappeared.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276353https://fargostreet.com/post/276353Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:52:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:45:55 GMT]]>Depending on how the files that are downloaded using bit torrent are ripped initially or if an ISO is downloaded they can still retain the DRM.

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imprttuner2;287953 wrote:
Either that or something that checks for some form of "DRM/Protected" and just won't include non DRM content in it's lists.

He said that stuff from Bittorrent is fine, and that's not DRM though...

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276351https://fargostreet.com/post/276351Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:35:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:52:37 GMT]]>Either that or something that checks for some form of "DRM/Protected" and just won't include non DRM content in it's lists.

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Jim;287941 wrote:
Kossick... are you sure the database just didn't get corrupted and the option to remove the songs when they arent in the database was checked?

If Apple were doing this, there would be a HUGE uproar on the internet, and I havent found anything of the sort yet...

MP3 files contain little data besides the compressed audio... just the ID3 tag / adjoining information.

It'd be almost impossible for them to build a database and remove data, not to mention I think this would be illegal.

Anybody else want to chime in here?

I would be willing to bet it would be a violation of tampering with files that are not their own. I haven't read anything about it either. I'm guessing it was a user error or somethign was corrupt.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276338https://fargostreet.com/post/276338Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:41:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:25:31 GMT]]>Kossick... are you sure the database just didn't get corrupted and the option to remove the songs when they arent in the database was checked?

If Apple were doing this, there would be a HUGE uproar on the internet, and I havent found anything of the sort yet...

MP3 files contain little data besides the compressed audio... just the ID3 tag / adjoining information.

It'd be almost impossible for them to build a database and remove data, not to mention I think this would be illegal.

Anybody else want to chime in here?

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276335https://fargostreet.com/post/276335Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:25:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:14:30 GMT]]>haven't noticed any losses on my end. but then again, i gave up on a lot of my old stuff from 8-9 years ago. majority of it now is recent.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276334https://fargostreet.com/post/276334Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:14:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:02:19 GMT]]>Floola allows you to drag & drop videos as well which I why I prefer it.

EDIT: It also will convert non-mp4 files into MP4 so you can watch them on your ipod....just by dragging and dropping.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276324https://fargostreet.com/post/276324Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:02:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:42:47 GMT]]>I cant believe im getting technology tips from you old fogeys lol, jp 🙂

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SPANISH-RICE;287919 wrote:
more on this ? im so behind the times

http://www.getsharepod.com/download/

allows you to pull your MP3's off your ipod and back up/etc.. as needed.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276320https://fargostreet.com/post/276320Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:05:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:39:45 GMT]]>itunes FTL anyway

apple = fail

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weshole;287888 wrote:
Thats why I use Sharepod.

more on this ? im so behind the times

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276313https://fargostreet.com/post/276313Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:38:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:20:15 GMT]]>That sucks! Thanks for the heads up.!

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weshole;287888 wrote:
Thats why I use Sharepod.

of Floola

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/276296https://fargostreet.com/post/276296Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:05:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Itunes warning!! on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:37:36 GMT]]>So basically apple wrecks your shit (vandalism) if you have music on your iPod that wasn't bought from them. Some would consider that malicious software.
I knew there was reason I decided not to install the new update.
I stopped using limewire a long time ago, it's been nothing but torrents for me for the past few years.

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