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CDDB (aka Gracenote) is the database from where iTunes pulls track data. The data first has to be uploaded, usually by the label. Here are instructions: http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/musician-tips/how-to-submit-your-track-information-to-gracenote-using-itunes-11/

I had the exact same problem. I was very nervous as I very slowly worked on removing disc 2 from the hub. I found a solution that kinda works, at least for me. Disc 2 is held in by 4 spokes. I gently pushed in 2 of them, so now the disc is being held in place by only 2 spokes, which makes it far easier to remove. The spokes haven't yet broken off.

Very sad. I'll play the 32Jazz compilation later today. RIP.

Get better soon.

I recently got the Bobby Hackett, along with the Beehive. Haven't listened to them yet so can't comment, but I was intrigued by the Hackett samples on Mosaic's website. I'd encourage others to do the same. It was released in 2001, so it's surprising it's still around. I'm still on the fence about the Duke. I have most of this on that 40-CD "History" set released in 1999, so the question is whether the better sound + booklet is sufficient to spring for the Mosaic.

Allen, will you be loading track info into CDDB?

I remember hearing them back in the day. Humor is very subjective, and 40-year old humor perhaps more so.

Wonder if this, previously released on Pablo, will be on it; recorded April 1, 1956:

Got the disc in the mail today, in good condition.

OK, so right now the Library.itl file is in the Music/iTunes folder. I guess I should take any other Library.itl files and rename them "old" or something like that, so there's only one "official" Library.itl file.

I assume you used the eMusic Download Manager program. Does it specify to where it saves music files? As for contacting them, try the message boards there.

I hope all goes well for your grandson.

Well, I think I have a happy ending to my saga. I found another version of the "iTunes Library.itl" file, and when I opened it (by opening iTunes while holding down the option key, and then selecting this .itl file), it was the most up-to-date version, including all my playlists. It was like seeing an old friend again. I think one problem with iTunes is it doesn't tell you the location of the .itl file it's using; under "Preferences" you can specify the location of the iTunes Media folder, but not the location of the .itl file. Therefore, over time, it seems to scatter .itl files in various places on your hard drive. Now that I know the location of the .itl file I want, I'd like to move it to a more obvious, findable spot. Do you think there's a risk in moving it?

I learned of this one through the following "correction": "An earlier version of a picture caption with this obituary misidentified the album cover on the bottom left. It is Thelonious Monk’s “Underground,” not “George Szell Conducts Beethoven.” But it's an interesting obituary of an interesting life, and we obviously know most of the covers. Brooklyn! NYT.

Happy birthday, Lee!

Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy, went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion. In a wood-paneled dining room, with Picasso and de Kooning prints on the walls, Mr. Jones nervously presented a radical suggestion: the magazine, a leader of the revolution that helped take sex in America from furtive to ubiquitous, should stop publishing images of naked women. Mr. Hefner, now 89, but still listed as editor in chief, agreed. As part of a redesign that will be unveiled next March, the print edition of Playboy will still feature women in provocative poses. But they will no longer be fully nude. Full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/nudes-are-old-news-at-playboy.html?_r=0

The winning lot will probably be a politically-correct subset of the nominees. Just determine your ideal proportions.

Good luck in the future, Bev.

I might not subscribe next year...will have my hands full listening to the box.

John: Thanks for the tip. I was able to find a prior iTunes Library.itl file, and find my playlists through June 2014, which I've copied to an Excel file for future reference. Sometime after that must have been when iTunes started saving new additions to a different folder. So some good came out of it.

Be sure and make copies of all of your playlists. I made the mistake of not doing that once and lost them when itunes crashed. It is easy to make copies Select a playlist and go to file - library- export. Then even if itunes fails to recognize your playlists when you switch your default to the external drive, you can just reload them simply (import). John, have you successfully done this before? Because I have a backup of my pre-migration files. My fear is that iTunes won't recognize my new files when I want to switch back.

Note that if you have over 200 gb of music, the cost of iTunes Cloud Storage is $120/year (see https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201238). I'm now inching towards 1 TB, which is how this all started: I needed to migrate to a larger EHD. I don't see whether Apple will even allow you more than 1 TB.

I have to confess, I'm pretty ticked off about the information iTunes lost in the upgrade: Last Played, for example. Totally lost. Or the date an album was added; iTunes now lists last week as when all albums were added. Or various playlists I made for friends, or tracks I want to include in future playlists; all gone. It's a shame because it's those little things that make the iTunes experience so enjoyable; it's disheartening that this data can disappear in a flash. I don't even think there's a way to separately save that data.

Just announced: Dave's Picks Vol. 16 - Springfield, MA, March 28, 1973.

Here's what I understand about how iTunes works: 1) Your music files exist on a folder on a hard drive. They exist independent of iTunes or any other music organization software. 2) When you first start using iTunes, it asks where your music files are located. It then builds its own index of those files (in a file it names iTunes Library.itl). That index is what you see when you open iTunes. So, really, iTunes is just a particular way to view your music files, coupled with a convenient way to play them. 3) If you allow it to, it will also organize those music files for you. It prefers that you allow it to. In that case, it will actually copy your music files: it will create a folder (which it names iTunes Media) and subfolders for each artist. So if you have Joe Albany albums in 3 different folders on two different hard drives, it will copy them all to one folder named Joe Albany, which is a subfolder under iTunes Media. 4) If, when you open iTunes, it cannot find the file iTunes Library.itl, it will ask for your help to find it. >> If it cannot find this file, you will not see any of your music in iTunes. << Your music hasn't been erased; the files are still on the hard drive. It's just that iTunes cannot see them. 5) In my case, after I upgraded to El Capitan, iTunes didn't recognize that .itl file it had created just the day before. I don't know why. Instead of just rebuilding the file, it copied my music files to a new location and then rebuilt the file. Note that it didn't move my music files, it just copied them, which is a good thing; I'd be more concerned if it moved the files, because then I wouldn't know if it lost any. So now I compare my old music file folder to my new one and see a discrepancy in the total number of files, so I need to understand why that's so.