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streamkid
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 Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 8:05 am Post subject: Banshee destroyed all my non-english tags on my ipod |
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I am using banshee 1.4.3 and have an iPod classic 6th gen 160gb.
I have about 18k songs, and half of them are greek.
Ok now the SERIOUS problem:
I tried to use banshee with my ipod. It didn’t see all my songs; only those that were in a playlist.
Immediately after disconnecting my ipod I saw that banshee had deleted all playlists that werent created by itunes (even those that were otg playlists and that were afterwards edited with itunes, were deleted).
Now I’ve seen that all my tracks that had empty tags, now have a ‘MPEG audio file’ tag, and ALL my greek songs (9k) have empty tags.
WTF?!!?!?!
Ok I suppose that this damned thing has destroyed my iTunesDB, but is there still any chance I can recover it?
Has this thing happened to anyone else?
My guess is that banshee changed iTunesDB encoding, so I ‘ll try to mess with it (after backing up what’s left).
TIA,
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timeBandit
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: Banshee destroyed all my non-english tags on my ipod |
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| streamkid wrote: | | Ok I suppose that this damned thing has destroyed my iTunesDB, but is there still any chance I can recover it? |
No, unless you already had a backup. 
What about the original files on your PC--are they still tagged? The easiest repair would be to delete all the damaged tracks from the iPod, then re-sync them from the PC.
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streamkid
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject: Re: Banshee destroyed all my non-english tags on my ipod |
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| timeBandit wrote: | No, unless you already had a backup.
What about the original files on your PC--are they still tagged? The easiest repair would be to delete all the damaged tracks from the iPod, then re-sync them from the PC. |
Oh, forgot to tell you, I've got the full murphy service.
A short time ago my NAS died, so whatsoever was left from my files was my music, in my iPod.
Long story made short: I don't think I ever get my music back, eh?
Thanks anyways!!
EDIT: For some reason, I remembered that iTunes didn't actually change the tags, it only modified iTunesDB. There was a small chance that gtkpod, banshee, etc worked the same way. I opened a tag-hurt file, and the real tags are fine. That means that only iTunesDB got scr3wed. I'm going to make some more tests, and if that's the case, I'll copy (by means of cp) all the files to a hd, and reimport them. I hope/suppose that's going to fix the mess! |
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