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StoolPigeon

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3. Don't panic yet

Reply to live love laugh (Original post)

Thu Jan 22, 2026, 02:50 AM

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If you open a playlist with any text editor, you will see that it is only a list of fully qualifed filenames. As long as you still have the music files, it shouldn't be that hard to recreate them.

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Apple just disappeared several of my playlists. [View all] live love laugh Yesterday OP

A friend just lost all his new contacts when "synch" apparently synched them to the bit bucket. usonian Yesterday #1

I found some software that let me get my music back off my iPod and onto iTunes in my computer. My new diane in sf Yesterday #2

Don't panic yet StoolPigeon Yesterday #3

The files disappeared with the playlist. live love laugh Yesterday #4