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YDI for having 3000 songs. NO ONE has 3000 songs legally. Karma 1 - You 0
wow you are ******* stupid. i have almost 2000 songs from cds that I bought with my own money, and I am 21. thats what 120 cds in 10 years. so really in another 10 years i would have well in excess of 3000 you fucktard
I have 12000 songs legally!
3,000 songs wouldn't take that long to re download, assuming its mostly albums and not singular songs. I have nearly 25,000 on my computer and that would really be a bitch to get back.
One word: backup.
Believe it or not, you can actually still recover some of those "lost" files, if you didn't over-write them all already. Just look up "Recuva" by Piriform, same company that made CCleaner.
You probably coulda pulled those files off your old computer. Unless the hardrive was bricked you can easily pull them off.
If you buy music through iTunes and ONLY iTunes you can sync everything back up to your computer. If you ripped them from a CD or got them from Amazon you cant unless you know a crafty way. I used to manually manage my library, but I guess iTunes caught on to me dragging and dropping tracks between my work and home libraries and cut that feature out.
Take a basic computer class. It is very rare that a software crash will completely destroy all the files on your HD. There are many services and even some free software available to recover data on a HD (even if its been formated) Not to mention, pulling the plug while simply copying files will NOT delete all the files on both devices. Maybe and I stress MAYBE if you were transferring from one to the other while deleting from the first, but even still, you would have everything that was transfered up to the point the plug was pulled on one device and everything that hadn't yet been transfered still on the other device. You may lose a few songs. This is complete bullshit and not an FML.
I hope you kept your old, crashed computer, because it sounds like the data can be recovered quite easily. Files aren't truly deleted until they've been overwritten. I suggest you get a local computer-savvy person to help you out. Offer to pay them for their time and a huge bonus if successful. Money is always a great motivator. I'd do it for travel expenses and a home-cooked meal if I were in your area. :)
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through the apple store you can re-download your purchases up to 3 times. there's how-to's all over the internet, good luck!!
invest in an external hard drive for backing your stuff up.