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!

Bonny, that sounds like a codec issue rather than a player issue -- that's a little bit of software, not a player in itself but more like a plugin for whatever player you use, that tells the computer how to decode the files. Until you get the right one, it won't matter what player you're using.

I'd bet a small but significant number of kittens that 3ivx will work for you -- it plays a bunch of different file types that don't play on macs out of the box, including most of the ones that are commonly used in the ahemosphere. (And in other places like vids.)

Gris's answer also works, and takes lots less typing!

Another approach would be to get the CDs out of the library and rip them. If I'd already paid for the music, I'd have no qualms about doing that.