Cannot transfer my limewire library to itunes or ipod...
 

Hi, I am unable to transfer my updated limewire library to itunes and/or my ipod. When I have been successful, it'as been entirely by mistake. I need someone to expalin to me how to do it, smoothly. Thank you!

Are you talking about using Limewire (LW)? If yes, then ignore the LW playlist you see in iTunes. That's simply a playlist & the actual songs still remain in your LW downld folder. What you need to do is add the song files to iTunes music library. To do this see the many techniques here How to transfer music to my iPod (& iTunes)

And to access your downld folder easily & quickly: Go to your LW Library window, select Saved Files folder & press the Explore button. Sample image here: Using Library Explore button to access downld folder (click on link)
The default location of the LW downld folder is: C:\Documents and Settings\"your account name"\Shared

help
 

Some how my itunes music is gone and the only place i have it is on my ipod. how can i recreate a music list on itunes and then transfer new music to ipod from limewire?

Check your iTunes Music Folder. Search & find it on your computer. See what the folder size is. You may need to re-add the files from that folder. You could open the music folder, select all the folders & drag & drop them to the iTunes Library icon at the top of the playlists whilst iTunes is open.

If the iTunes music folder is empty. Then you may need to get the iPod files copied back to your computer & add them to iTunes from there. See the above link in my first post & look for reverse iPod near the lower posts of that thread. :)

(I have been getting the impression that with apple adding different extras to their newer version iTunes that some of them are causing problems / side issues. Your iTunes music list might have been corrupted.)

The most recent versions of itunes is no longer compatible with Limewire. If you have a version that works keep using it. Not only that, Apple made the itunes library incompatible with previous versions. What I do now is load the Limewire files onto Media Monkey and then batch load them to itunes.

I love my two 80GB ipods but Apple bytes!!!

I already have the version prior to the newest one with genius. I don't want an Apple program searching through my files.

I hope this helps someone.

hi
i know it is bad manners to butt in on someone else thread but i have no idea how to start another one. i was wondering if somone could help....everytime i try to add lw tunes to itunes, its automaticall transferes wma(?) file to mp3, i have already done this and it work, however everytime i try to download a new song it has to do it all over again and it takes ages...can anyone help me sort this? thanks in advance

iTunes won't play .wma files as they are, but will convert .wma files to whichever format you've selected within your iTunes preferences.
In iTunes go Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Importing. There's a dropdown menu next to 'Import Using'...there you can choose which file type you want iTunes to convert the .wma files to.

If you want your songs in iTunes in .mp3 format, just download .mp3 files rather than .wma files;)
wma files aren't the most trustworthy anyway - check out this link:What you should know about WMA Files

The file will have lost some of it's data when it was originally converted to .wma format...if you convert that same file to .mp3 then it's going to lose more data during the conversion. So the quality of the file's going to be even more reduced.

hiya!
thanks so much for getting back to me. i tried that but what it is, i am downloading mp3 files, however the files already dowloaded on my itunes are wma, am i therefore better to download wma files from lm? i chnaged the prefrences but it did not seem to make any difference!! ahhhhhh

Are you sure that the files in your iTunes library are .wma?? Right click on a file name > get info. You'll see the file format there.

Which version of iTunes are you using (to find out, in iTunes click on 'help' > about iTunes - the version number will show)?

ATM I'm back with iTunes 6 but AFAIK iTunes 7 was the same (ie converting .wma to other formats when adding files to the library). I don't know about iTunes 8, haven't used it.
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sorry some songs are aac? and it looks like some are wma (i think its the songs i have dowlaoded via a cd, so everytime i download songs from lw it converts all those songs, it a total mess and doing my head in! i am on version 7, should i downgrade?

Have you used iTunes 6 before & not had the same problem?? I honestly don't know how you have .wma files there, because the 'import using' thing that I mentioned before applies to what you rip as well!

Bear with me for a little while, while I change to iTunes 7 & then rip a CD & see whether I can get .wma as an option.

What OS are you using?

AAC's one of the iTunes supported formats but I'm stumped with the wma. As you can see, it's not even an option for me & AFAIK it never was.
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Nope, there's no wma option in my iTunes 7 either (version 7.0.1.8).

Can you take a screenshot of your files showing wma as the format (blank out file names for copyright reasons;))?

Are you sure that you're not confusing wma with wav as a format?

hi birdy!
i have been a complete idiot, i have just been transfering file to music folder and not the shared lw one (not i am not even brainy enough to descover this myself, my flatmate did) typical blonde!! ahahahaha

thanks so much though for trying to help though!!!!you have been great!

Glad you got it sorted out:)

I don't mean to confuse you, but just remember that if you want to put files onto an iPod, you won't be able to transfer the songs that are in the 'shared limewire tunes' list. That's just a playlist. All that 'shared limewire tunes' is good for, is listening to the songs:)

And choose mp3's to download, not wma files. :) Many people put .wma in their word filter. ;)

Check your files. When I updated to version 7 of itunes I found it was incompatible with previous libraries, and it no longer works with Limewire.)
You may have a file that contains your old library, as well as the new one.
You can probably copy the missing songs over manually. (You may need to reformat them first.)

If you have a version of itunes that still works with Limewire DO NOT UPGRADE. Versions 6 or earlier work fine. Set your itunes to not allow
automatic updates.

If you already installed version 7 or higher it's to late.

You can downgrade to an earlier iTunes & keep the songs in your library. There are instructions for Mac & Win XP in this post: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/tips-t...tml#post327806

I don't use Vista, but I guess it would be possible to use the XP instructions (not sure if the 'my music' folder is in the same place with Vista)

I will try that out tomorrow.

Free songs
 

What happened to the free music on LW is that gone?

No... you can download files for free.
If you're having trouble transferring songs to iPod or iTunes, check post #2 of this thread for info.

free songs
 

yes, but just songs no one wants. I don't want new songs I want oldies (50's 60's) and no one seems to be doing that anymore.

I'm sure at least some people are sharing them suediff, however they will be harder to locate & may be on at different times, etc. :)
I found if I share similar types of files to what I am looking for, I tend to get such people uploading from me. This makes it easier to find them in searches, also allows me to Browse them from the upload window in many cases. ;)