Please can someone advise me.

I went to bed on Thursday night, having updated a podcast on itunes.  A little balloon came up in the bottom corner to say I had a corrupted file and to run Checkdisc.  The file was something to do with volume.

When I turn on the pc next day, and open itunes, lo and behold, there is no music there.  The files are all in the My Music folder, and I backed them up recently, but I can still not use itunes to get updated podcasts, enter new CDs etc. 

I reloaded itunes from www.apple.com/ipod/start

The itunes window is still empty of music.  How do I get itunes to connect with My Music library?

Any suggestions gratefully received.

This is a good place to ask or search.

http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=150

I have a horrible feeling it does mean this, though you should be able to select/import whole albums? I wonder whether importing the files from another PC might have been behind the problem?

Good luck with it all,

Mark

DonB,

Once you have edited the disc's details, before you import the tracks, although you could also do it afterwards, click on the 'Advanced' tab in the top menu bar. Then click on 'Submit CD track names' and it will send the info off for others to benefit from. Sometimes you have to 'edit' what you send off - I categorise my recordings into finer sections than 'Classical' and 'Opera', which iTunes offers, into 'Orchestral, 'Choral', etc, so Gracenotes will ask me to select a category it recognises before allowing me to submit my details.

If someobody else then pops a CD into their tray, iTunes will offer you a choice as to which info to select. If you get given this choice, it's worth looking at both options. A lot depends on your own preferences, as it's important that your discs, especially of you're planning on 'ripping' a lot, conform to a 'house style', e.g. all composers are listed with surname first, all orchestral artist entries start with the conductor, making searching on the iPod easier to locate specific performances etc.

Cheers, DB!

Yes, iTunes does have an opera category. iTunes is not perfect, but I do find it does a reasonably good job. If you're downloading music (I haven't done so much) then it's search facility isn't great...you often have to try a slightly different search parameter.

As for older recordings, a little tip: http://www.classicalmusicmobile.com/catalog/ is worth investigating....out of copyright recordings (so early stereo just becoming available) at the amazing price of €1.00 per work...that's right! So a recording of Decca's 1950s stereo Don Giovanni with Cesare Siepi, Lisa della Casa etc for just one Euro!

PS

Thanks again Mark.