Comments on: Ker-flush, swirl, swirl, swirl, gurgle….. hissssss. D’oh.

By: mattd

mattd — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:33:41 +0000

Buy your music wherever you like, but note that Apple has, in the past, made “one-time exceptions” for people who lost purchased music and didn’t have backups:

http://www.apple.com/support/i.....lostmusic/

http://thecontent.wordpress.co.....usic-once/

Back up all purchased music from any online source, though. DRM or no DRM, the file is all you get, so make lots of copies.

By: TomHilton

TomHilton — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:51:01 +0000

Forget iTunes; go for eMusic instead. 30 downloads/month at $9.99, which works out to a third of what iTunes charges per song. Great selection, too–lots of independent/oddball/international stuff.

By: Synoia

Synoia — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:41:38 +0000

You now fully understand the phrase “Single Point of Failure”. Just consider, most if not all, IT systems are riddled with single points of failure.

Professionals take backups. And expect failures.

By: DennisSGMM

DennisSGMM — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:10:47 +0000

Try GetDataBack for NTFS. Here
I’ve used it to successfully recover data even from hard drives that have had new operating systems installed. Generally, the data isn’t lost unless it’s been overwritten, it’s just that Windows “forgets” where the data is located. And you can get a free download.

By: busterjonez

busterjonez — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:46:52 +0000

“it just works!”

But seriously, if you want, there are some good “open source” music pages out there. If you already bought the albums (and thus the rights) you can get your friends to email (or snail mail CDs) you copies of the music, no?

I never know what my rights are wrt to digital music copies.

By: comsympinko

comsympinko — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:42:04 +0000

Lt. Frank Drebin:

“But this is our hill. And these are our beans.”

By: TheCritic

TheCritic — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:30:51 +0000

I’d be curious to know how you managed to delete them all off your old PC. First they go to the recycle bin, so you went to the recycle bin and deleted them from there? You don’t have Norton System Works running? Try installing it. What’s erased from the hard drive isn’t always totally erased and merely remains on the hard drive until written over, so there’s a possible chance of getting it back.

http://www.e-fense.com/helix/

Can help retrieve things as well. Try finding out what software you can nab and you can probably save a lot of what you thought was lost.

By: jbk123

jbk123 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:06:53 +0000

Say what you will about them, it was damn hard to delete those old 33 rpm record albums.

By: daveotr

daveotr — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:27:50 +0000

Norbit was totally robbed

Never fear, Eddie Murphy “won” Worst Actor, Worst Supporting Actor, and Worst Supporting Actress (all for Norbit at the Golden Razzies. (However this was Lindsay Lohan’s year: Worst Picture: I Know Who Killed Me, Worst Actress: Lindsay Lohan (Twice!) I Know Who Killed Me, Worst Screen Couple: Lindsay Lohan and Lindsay Lohan I Know Who Killed Me).

By: djangone

djangone — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:04:38 +0000

I’ll take a guess, you had to reformat the iPod to work with the Mac. Doing so erased your iPod’s music, as it should and as it warns it’s going to do, which (and here I speculate) you didn’t have backed up on the Windows machine? If so, naughty naughty.