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    Posted: 22 March 2020 at 10:28am
need a little help from you guys.....i recently bought a
new computer and every time i open itunes the default
setting for where i'd like music stored reverts back to
somewhere else.....i go into edit, preferences, advanced
and change the 'itunes media folder location' to my
external drive 'music' folder and each time i close out
the program it say C:\users\owner\music\itunes\itunes
media'....i can figure out how to change it
permanently....any idea?
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For me, that happens if I open iTunes before Windows
acknowledges an external drive. Even if the drive is
physically connected, I usually need to access it once
in Windows (e.g., clicking on the drive in Windows
Explorer) so it's active when iTunes opens.
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Ever since my Mac updated to the new OS Catalina (in October), 2,000 of my
songs purchased before 2009 need to be constantly authorized in order to
play. If at any time they are unauthorized, they won't sync to my devices and
will permanently be removed from any detailed playlist I've created. A
nightmare.

The files are all Protected AAC Files, and are fine once reauthorized, but they
fail every other day.

Apple says to just re-download the songs, but many - including all those
American Idol or Glee songs - are gone permanently from iTunes!
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Originally posted by jebsib jebsib wrote:

Apple says to just re-download the songs, but many - including all those
American Idol or Glee songs - are gone permanently from iTunes!


My suggestion is to make an apple lossless copy of the itunes download and it will remove the DRM from that time period and will keep the file intact at the same bit rate it was. It won't be lossless but that is not the intent of doing it. The end result will be you can at least move on from downloads that don't exist or are not available anymore. Let me know if it works.

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Really good suggestion, PopArchivist - will try this!
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jebsib,

do you have any of the american idol version of the hits
that have been deleted?....there was another thread
listing the many songs and versions that are forever lost
to the dustbin of apples servers....if so, we'd love to
have them...
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Originally posted by edtop40 edtop40 wrote:

jebsib,

do you have any of the american idol version of the hits
that have been deleted?....there was another thread
listing the many songs and versions that are forever lost
to the dustbin of apples servers....if so, we'd love to
have them...


I second that emotion. Please reach out to Ed or I, both of us have been trying to find many of those downloads for years...
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I don't have many - just a handful. Let me figure out what I have and post in
the next 24 hours.
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Ed,
I don't have a fix for the folder problem but I can tell
you my I-tunes does exactly the same thing. I kept
changing the default folder to MY choice but every time
I re-opened the program it went back to its own default.
So I just live with it.
Thank you Apple for yet another irritating bug. And my
preferred folder is not an external drive.

MM

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Originally posted by jebsib jebsib wrote:

I don't have many - just a handful. Let me figure out what I have and post in
the next 24 hours.


Considering they don't exist as downloads anymore anything is always better than nothing...let me know if the apple lossless trick works and removes the DRM from that time period. If not, I can suggest another way to go about it.
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