Well. That was a waste of time (or, "Levan Polkka FOREVER!!1!")

I have an eclectic iTunes/music library (to say the least). When I recently upgraded to the latest version of iTunes, certain songs (all purchased from the iTunes Store) stopped playing. Actually, a lot of them. It was to the point that the only songs that would still play were the "Levan Polkka" and the Muppet Show's "Mahna Mahna" song.

I had planned a weekend of cleaning up files other grunt work at the computer while listening to my music collection. Instead, I spent far too much time googling solutions to this problem (there are a lot of them) and trying the usual range of "fixes" (from re-installing everything to witch-doctor-stuff to caveman banging-on-stuff solutions). Hearing the Levan Polkka for the twenty-third time will do that to you*.

Got my call-back from Apple Tech: solution=delete songs from library (which had my internal caveman-tech running in frightened circles). Then (and only then) will the cloud icon appear (magically, appealing to the witch-doctor-tech inside my head) and you can click to re-download the song with no problem.

My theory is that Apple did this on purpose (file corrupting) so that you -had- to do this process and experience the wonderfulness of The Cloud. But Apple wouldn't do this, would they? They are Pure... and Good! Please, Apple, don't become evil!

But the end result is more dogwalks than intended and my music is back and I am slightly less insane.



*It's a Finnish folk song sung by Loituma, popular in anime circles because of an anime meme a few years ago (involving a spinning leek). Quite catchy, but it will drive you mad if played long enough.

Well. That was a waste of time (or, "Levan Polkka FOREVER!!1!")

I have an eclectic iTunes/music library (to say the least). When I recently upgraded to the latest version of iTunes, certain songs (all purchased from the iTunes Store) stopped playing. Actually, a lot of them. It was to the point that the only songs that would still play were the "Levan Polkka" and the Muppet Show's "Mahna Mahna" song.

I had planned a weekend of cleaning up files other grunt work at the computer while listening to my music collection. Instead, I spent far too much time googling solutions to this problem (there are a lot of them) and trying the usual range of "fixes" (from re-installing everything to witch-doctor-stuff to caveman banging-on-stuff solutions). Hearing the Levan Polkka for the twenty-third time will do that to you*.

Got my call-back from Apple Tech: solution=delete songs from library (which had my internal caveman-tech running in frightened circles). Then (and only then) will the cloud icon appear (magically, appealing to the witch-doctor-tech inside my head) and you can click to re-download the song with no problem.

My theory is that Apple did this on purpose (file corrupting) so that you -had- to do this process and experience the wonderfulness of The Cloud. But Apple wouldn't do this, would they? They are Pure... and Good! Please, Apple, don't become evil!

But the end result is more dogwalks than intended and my music is back and I am slightly less insane.



*It's a Finnish folk song sung by Loituma, popular in anime circles because of an anime meme a few years ago (involving a spinning leek). Quite catchy, but it will drive you mad if played long enough.

Well. That was a waste of time (or, "Levan Polkka FOREVER!!1!")

I have an eclectic iTunes/music library (to say the least). When I recently upgraded to the latest version of iTunes, certain songs (all purchased from the iTunes Store) stopped playing. Actually, a lot of them. It was to the point that the only songs that would still play were the "Levan Polkka" and the Muppet Show's "Mahna Mahna" song.

I had planned a weekend of cleaning up files other grunt work at the computer while listening to my music collection. Instead, I spent far too much time googling solutions to this problem (there are a lot of them) and trying the usual range of "fixes" (from re-installing everything to witch-doctor-stuff to caveman banging-on-stuff solutions). Hearing the Levan Polkka for the twenty-third time will do that to you*.

Got my call-back from Apple Tech: solution=delete songs from library (which had my internal caveman-tech running in frightened circles). Then (and only then) will the cloud icon appear (magically, appealing to the witch-doctor-tech inside my head) and you can click to re-download the song with no problem.

My theory is that Apple did this on purpose (file corrupting) so that you -had- to do this process and experience the wonderfulness of The Cloud. But Apple wouldn't do this, would they? They are Pure... and Good! Please, Apple, don't become evil!

But the end result is more dogwalks than intended and my music is back and I am slightly less insane.



*It's a Finnish folk song sung by Loituma, popular in anime circles because of an anime meme a few years ago (involving a spinning leek). Quite catchy, but it will drive you mad if played long enough.