I left my iPod in a bar last night.

Nooooooooooo!!!!!!

Oooooh, in a bar?!?! That's awful!! Any chance you'll get it back???

I do know what I'm missing--at least, the purchased music (you can look at your "download history" in iTunes). There's a couple of CD's I've put on there that I have, that I can put on a again. There's some mashups that I don't remember where I got, and I'm sure there's some songs I put on and don't remember. But mostly these days I get stuff from buying it on iTunes.

So, iTunes wrote me back and said "you can redownload MOST of it".

But they claim SOME of the songs have changed or are no longer available anymore. So I can't have those ones. It's about 20 out of the 160, but I'm HIGHLY suspicious because a few of them are songs that I downloaded not two weeks ago. WTF??

So, still asking the Hivemind--what's a good way to get music via non-iTunes ways? Because I still do not intend to pay for that music twice.

but I'm HIGHLY suspicious because a few of them are songs that I downloaded not two weeks ago. WTF??

It happens quite a bit. Contracts with record labels expire and lots of stuff can come and go from iTunes. It has also happened quite a bit with the TV and movie catalog.

Can't help you on the other downloads, sorry.

If you put a song name into isohunt, it will come up with albums with the song on it. At least, it did a while ago. This is why I now have a stupid number of "Greatest Hits of 19XX" albums -- I figure the artist gets screwed on that kind of compilation anyway.

Yeah, but on songs that I downloaded two weeks ago that are new songs? And still available in the iTunes store? The ones that I downloaded two years ago, sure, I believe that. (They are probably still there too, and available under a different way, and they can't give them to me that way)

And I actually just checked, and they apparently didn't really read what I wrote anyway, and just made my WHOLE download history available. Rather that just the part I needed. So most of what they said they couldn't give me, I didn't need anyway, I still had copies of.

It's just a few songs that I downloaded within the past month.

Given that you have a list handy, you might try posting in music and/or LJ in case anyone can help you out?

I feel the no-back up pain meara. Ugh.

Speaking of which, I have a question about a media player I lost when my last computer died in February.

Actually, not specifically about that one, because I can't remember the name.

The issue is, I a****edquired, shall we say, some avi files this evening. They play in quicktime but have no sound.

Would another player possibly work...and which one is best? Or did I spend all that time a***ming the wrong files!!

eta: for reference, I acquired the files using vuze.

VLC. [link]

If it can't play it, it's probably a bad file.

Well, when I went through the list and parsed it all out, after figuring out what they didn't give me and what I already had and everything, it ended up only being four songs (because most of what they didn't give me was stuff I actually had backup for). So I figure four songs isn't worth tracking down, I'll pay that as a stupidity penalty for not backing up sooner. :)

But I have a brand new backup hard drive, which I will be using in just a few moments, I swear...

Thanks Gris. Downloading it now.

eta: YAY. blackpool!