iPod Importing songs - new hard drive?

[DEXTERITY]

I was wondering if someone could please help me. My great Maxtor (Apple why do you use these - 4 bad already - G4 and G5 combined) hard drive died on my G5 after two years. Luckily literally 30 minutes before it crapped out I backed up a copy of my itunes library.

I have at least 400 different play list. I have all the music, however when I imported the library it didn't bring the music with it. I have all my play list as I should have and i know I could drag and drop all my songs according to the play list but it will take forever. Is there no way that itunes can search for the music (which I have) and place it back in the appropriate places? or.. can I dump everything in the generic library and have it sync back to the play list some how?

Thanks in advance.

 

[yonnage]

When I upgraded, I dumped my whole iTunes folder in Music, then dragged all the songs into iTunes, and everything was there just like before. Playlists, playcounts, etc.

I was wondering if someone could please help me. My great Maxtor (Apple why do you use these - 4 bad already - G4 and G5 combined) hard drive died on my G5 after two years. Luckily literally 30 minutes before it crapped out I backed up a copy of my itunes library.

I have at least 400 different play list. I have all the music, however when I imported the library it didn't bring the music with it. I have all my play list as I should have and i know I could drag and drop all my songs according to the play list but it will take forever. Is there no way that itunes can search for the music (which I have) and place it back in the appropriate places? or.. can I dump everything in the generic library and have it sync back to the play list some how?

Thanks in advance.

 

[DEXTERITY]

hmmm, thanks for the reply. Funny it imported all my songs and the play list. However, it didn't put the songs back in the play list. What a pain in the a.......

 

[mad jew]

This page by Apple has a pretty good technique for getting your music onto a new machine. It uses the iPod but obviously you can adapt the method to use a network or a regular external hard drive, depending on where your backup files are.