# Should I upgrade my Itunes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-upgrade-my-itunes/329020 "2005-11-02T03:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-upgrade-my-itunes/329020/21 "2005-11-03T19:03:31Z")
By the way, y’all. If you ever experience a catastrophic HD crash and lose all your music, DON’T let the iPod sync up with an empty iTunes. It will promptly erase all your music (ask me how I know). Instead, use one of the many free utilities out there that allow you to transfer music off of your iPod. [Ephpod](http://www.ephpod.com) [Anapod Explorer](http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/) etc. ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-upgrade-my-itunes/329020/22 "2005-11-03T20:36:53Z")
I had a problem similar to **World Eater** ’s. In my case my computer became deauthorized and I just had to reauthorize it as one of the 5 my music purchased from iTunes was authorized on. It was only showing the songs I had burned from CD, not the purchased songs, in case someone thinks they might have the same problem. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-upgrade-my-itunes/329020/23 "2005-11-03T22:15:27Z")
> [@Jayrot](#): > > By the way, y’all. If you ever experience a catastrophic HD crash and lose all your music, DON’T let the iPod sync up with an empty iTunes. It will promptly erase all your music (ask me how I know). Yeah, this was my first thought. First thing I did was disconnect my Ipod from the computer. That way, I save me from myself. I saw that my folder had all the music files in it, Itunes just seemed to take a real liking to some other folder with a few random mp3s in it. After being unable to point it back to the old one, I just reimported it. I must say after that, I do like Itunes 6 very much. The podcasting stuff is exactly what I was hoping for. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-upgrade-my-itunes/329020/24 "2005-11-03T23:21:33Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Yeah, this was my first thought. First thing I did was disconnect my Ipod from the computer. That way, I save me from myself. Correction: you saved yourself from Apple. btw, Podcasting support has been there since 4.9. Pretty much the only point of 6.0 was to include Videos section and to break J-Hymn. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-upgrade-my-itunes/329020/25 "2005-11-03T23:52:45Z")
> [@Jayrot](#): > > Correction: you saved yourself from Apple. > > btw, Podcasting support has been there since 4.9. Pretty much the only point of 6.0 was to include Videos section and to break J-Hymn. Funny, I was running 4.8 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-upgrade-my-itunes/329020.md?page=1)