"Missing" tracks

[Joe Block]

Isn't that always the way, though? I started exporting my iTunes
library as XML every week or two (and always after ripping new albums)
and I haven't had a corruption problem since.


On 1/3/07, steve harley <steve at paper-ape.com> wrote:
> they whom i call Scot Hacker wrote:
> >  I thought of that too, but just checked again - there doesn't seem to
> > be any reference at all to missing tracks in the iTunes XML.
>
> not to chide, but that's a good illustration of the value of
> incremental backups
>
> otoh, at one point i got tired of iTunes corrupting its database,
> so i started adding tags to the comment field to record any
> track's membership in a "list"; i can now easily recover
> playlists even if i have to completely reload my library (which i
> haven't had to do for quite a while)
>
>
>
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