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Corona840
10-09-2005, 11:30 PM
Sorry if this has been asked/answered before, but I have a 60gb ipod, and I just reinstalled windows xp home and itunes because of a new motherboard in my computer. I'm storing my itunes music files on an external hard drive. I need to know how to 'restore' my playlists and ratings to my new installation of itunes. I have not connected my ipod to my computer since reinstalling windows, and I'm afraid that if I do, my music will be deleted from the ipod along with the old playlists/ratings. I can use my external hard drive to simply copy the music over again, but what about the playlists/ratings? Thanks!

hotphil
10-10-2005, 05:51 AM
Did you back up your iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml filed from C:\Documents and Settings\YOU\My Documents\My Music\iTunes? They're the files that store the library and all the ratings etc. If you have lost them I think you can restore them from the iPod. http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-computer/