Can I salvage songs purchased from iTunes when I no longer have iTunes available?

Question

I have used & purchased music from iTunes for 3 years but I am afraid I can not access my purchased music any longer. Here is the scenario: I copied the MyMusic fiolder from my C: drive to an external hard drive, now the G: drive because I had maxed out my C: with all the tunes. This was a problem for iTunes and I simply wanted to reinstall the program ( which I have done before with no problems ). This time the uninstall of iTunes could not be completed because QuickTime 7.1.3 could not uninstall properly. I received a Fatal Error message saying QuickTime either couldn't initialize a plug-in properly or that it was being used by another program. I have searched TONS of boards and know that TONS of people have not been able to uninstall QuickTime 7.1.3 from Windows XP. Of course Apple has a fix for this if you have a Mac but nothing for Windows. All my other songs can be transferred to WinAmp but how can I rescue my purchased music. It will not transfer, copy, etc. I am VERY frustrate

Answer 1

Unfortunately, I can't help you with the Quicktime issue, but you should still be able to get to your songs. If you know where your library is, you should be able to copy your songs into another folder and then burn that folder to a disc. Once you have the disc made, you can pop it back into the computer and rip them (in MP3 format, instead of MPEG4) and play them on any system you like.

If you can still access iTunes, you don't even need to burn the files from a folder. Just make a CD or CDs of your purchased songs and rip them into your computer again, using a different program.

I've never had to do this, but my best friend says this is how she gets around the copy protection on songs she buys from iTunes.

Answer 2

I don't have any experience with this, but I was recently told that when you purchase music from iTunes, it is kind of backed up for a year. If something happens and you lose everything, you can get it back, but only one time per year. I'm assuming it would be just what you purchased during the past year, but I don't really know. It's worth contacting them. Hope it all works out!

Answer 3

Okay, well there is one way. If you can take that external hard drive to another computer that iTunes is working correctly on - actually, first, find your iTunes library files (itunes library.itl) and transfer that to your external drive too

Then, take it to that other computer, and when iTunes is loading, hold down the Shift key. It will ask if you want to load another library. Navigate to the ITL file on the external drive, and load that. You should be able to authorize the songs onto that computer and use them.

Answer 4

in case you have get right of entry to to the records on your previous puzzling stress, you could desire to have the means to apply them which comprise your itunes account. otherwise if the songs are nonetheless on your ipod you could flow them to you workstation utilising itunes or yet another application which could cope with your ipod (like sharepod), yet you wont have the means to play them on your workstation until you validate them which comprise your itunes account.