Allow me to post the first poignant request for iTunes help on the re-launched site.
Delightfully, all the files in my iTunes library have ‘unticked’ themselves. All 10,000 or so.
‘All your files are unticked’ said a little message in a box. It went further ‘Some or all unticked items may not sync with your ipod’
A quick and infuriated trawl through the file menus and the Help has thrown no light on how I can simply select all and re-tick in a couple of keystrokes.
Has anyone else had this occur? If so, is there a quick way to resolve? Or will Apple be shortly be receiving an invoice for the cost of my RSI treatments?
Any help gratefully received.
mikethep says
This will be no help to you, but when this happened to me I decided to look at it as God’s way of telling me to take a fresh look at my library. So I deleted the lot (while keeping the files, obviously) and then repopulated the library album by album, giving each one a good listen as I went.
If you want to keep your current library you could try getting the ticks back album by album maybe?
Beezer says
Thank you, Mike. Unfortunately I’m an atheist so I don’t see this as God’s work. Although at this point in time I wish I wasn’t seeing as I could blame Him/Her rather than myself or iTunes for Windows.
mikethep says
Bloody predictive text: I meant Jobs, not God.
Moose the Mooche says
It’s taken us less than a week to restore that great old Word/Afterword tradition: moaning about iTunes.
Eeee, it’s good to be back again.
Beezer says
It’s a poisoned chalice. It is, of course, an honour to open the batting thusly.
However, F**K!
Moose the Mooche says
Edit > Select All > right click somewhere over all your blue songs > “tick selection ” should come up.
Beezer says
I love you.
Can you love an imbecile in return? *flutters eyelashes*
Moose the Mooche says
Ohhh yes.
PS. The idea that I of all people may have helped someone with a technical problem may cause a rupture in the fabric of space-time. Now, if you’ll excuse me, the wick in my computer’s gone out.
Beezer says
*sigh* It was soooo easy, wasn’t it? A simple little MS shortcut-type fix.
Thank you for pointing it out. Not sure why that didn’t occur to me in the first place.
Cancel that. I am sure why.
*sighs again. looks into the distance. twangs waistband of underpants forlornly*
jwfrancis says
Control Click (on Windows, Cmd Click on Mac?) on the checkbox will tick (or untick) all the songs in the current view
Beezer says
Aha! Yes, I was doing that and it wasn’t working. Last night.
I’ve just tried that again today and it works.
*twangs underpants waistband again. this time speculatively’
David Wright says
I hate I-Tunes and all the syncing business . I’m going to break free from Apple once my phone contract expires and go for something else .
mikethep says
Somewhere in the Great Lost Archives there will be several posts pointing out that you can completely ignore the syncing business and just drag and drop like any other hard disc.
paulwright says
if we are complaining about iTunes and Apple, perhaps one of the more tech minded Afterworders can tell me (and Apple) just why it seems beyond them to create a podcast playing app that works.
mikethep says
Podcast app works for me…where am I going wrong?
Paul Wad says
I’m paranoid about this happening, as I have far, far more tracks on iTunes than could fit on my iPod, so they’re not all ticked. So I have created a playlist just for tracks I have unticked. That way, when my iTunes does what yours has done I don’t have to go through the whole ruddy lot again.
timtunes says
Sorry, I like iTunes & think – by & large – it does the job.
But not on podcasts – I use Downcast now, works much better http://www.downcastapp.com/
bobness says
I must be doing it wrong, I’ve hardly ever had any trouble with iTunes at all. Only when migrating my library to a new laptop.
My podcasts work (I’d be lost without More or Less) I run 4 ipods off it and I now have most of my artwork.
What could possibly go wrong…?
RChappo says
I can’t be doing with the “synching” nonsense so I’ve always turned it off in iTunes and manually control my iPod – otherwise I end up with Mrs C’s horrid Amanda Palmer stuff on it and that never makes for a good day at work.
retropath2 says
Having had a 5 year jaunt on media monkey, involving a near-meltdown, rescuing the lot by sending to a different computer, the hub deciding not to recognise all 40k of the buggers, I am now happily reconciled with i-tunes on my mac air, rather than regroup on the simian solution on my PC. Lots o back-up, yeah, but, if truth be told, I never fully go to grips with the possibilities offered by MM, i-tunes layout fitting my elderly brain, especially with my ears, which can barely differentate between Bang & Olafson and an 8-track.
Orses for courses