Neville, how could you do me like this?

[hackthis_archive]

In what may be one of the most traumatic episodes EVER, last week I plugged in my iPod to charge the battery and it blue screened my computer. And then, when the computer rebooted and iTunes came back up, my pod started syncing up, only instead of syncing up, it synced down and proceeded to wipe itself clean. Yeah, you read that right. Two years, five computers and 5000 songs worth of work are all gone. And of course the Apple Geniuses were of no help, they basically said, "Yeah, your music is gone, no we don't know why, but your pod seems fine."

And it's not just the music -- although that REALLY smarts -- if you have a pod you know the time you take with it. You put in artwork and you make sure things are spelled right and capitalized and you create your own genres and playlists and you hug it and love it and call it George!

*sigh*

Like I said, there aren't any words, but if you've gotten music from me in oh, like EVER, or you have anything you think I'd like, I am asking you to help me out and put it in this post. Pop, rock, classical, old skool hip-hop, new wave, old wave, old classics, country, motown, jazz, blues, drinking songs, live songs, 420 songs, grunge, rap, comedy, britrock, britpop, kids songs, christmas songs, working out songs, 80s, 90s, 70s, covers, disco, you name it and chances are I would like it. I thank you in advance. I have to go take a Xanax.


ETA: To make life easier for you giving souls, you should know that I have 300+ CDs waiting to be loaded on my Pod, if I decide it's still trustworthy, so you don't have to give me whole albums of stuff, maybe just a zip with some of your favorite songs, that would totally be awesome too.

Comments

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

you know, i don't think i'd trust your ipod at this point. what if it did it again?

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Once you have some stuff back, BACK IT UP. In a normal folder. Somewhere else.

I have a nifty app to list the contents of any folder with subfolders. I'll run it on my music folder, then send it to you - you can ask me for anything you like on it. Email please?

[romanticalgirl.livejournal.com]

Shall upload Prince today. Anything else from the 80s you're dying for? There's a possibility I might have it.

[teaspoon.livejournal.com]

i figure someone else can do you better in terms of complete ryan adams albums, but i zipped up all the jeff buckley i have, including grace, half of sketches for my sweetheart, and a bunch of covers/rarities.

[zip 1 (http://www.sendspace.com/file/asdngh)]
[zip 2 (http://www.sendspace.com/file/r3kf21)]

hope that helps a tiny bit. i'll watch what other people come up with and see where i can fill in the gaps.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

... am rather terrified to report that my music folder is 17 gig with over 5,000 files on it. There must be SOMETHING you like on it.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

PS... er, perhaps lock this post?

[sparky77.livejournal.com]

Here's the Ray LaMontagne you gave me:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/2fx4qp

And he's the Audiobook of Wigfield because it's funny and narrated by Stephen Colbert: http://www.sendspace.com/file/mpijow

Let me know if these don't work because I tend to fail at uploading shit.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Well, sweetie, you don't have to trust my iPod, I have to ;) But I do understand what you're saying, so at the moment I'm just putting on what's already on the computers I have access to. I'm not getting near the 300+ CDs to upload until it's been a few weeks and it's proven it's not crapping out again.

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn. That's a boat load of suck right there. I will look when I get home to see if I have anything you might want. All my NSync, of course. But I am sure there is more. ;)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was never a matter of the folders not being backed up inasmuch as it was a matter of me moving around a bit and collecting all sorts of things, many of which I no longer have access to. And you can email me at my LJ e-mail: hackthis @ livejournal.com

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You ever get to the point in your life where you would go to hysterics, but you're all tapped out and don't have anything left for that? Yeah, that's about when this happened.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Do you know I still have the Prince you gave me. Hell, it's like one of the few things I do have. Why? Because Prince is love, but I am a fan of any and all 80s stuff. Good stuff, bad stuff, embarassing stuff, just no hair metal. Or metal of any kind that's not platinum and from Harry Winston.

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

That would have been my suggestion! Caution FTW!

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

That's absolutely awful. I will try my best to upload you some stuff tomorrow. <3

[circe-tigana.livejournal.com]

Email me if there's anything you're specifically looking for. The Blythe/Circe harddrive has loads and loads of stuff.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You are so very kind, thank you :)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Do you think? It's not like it's a download service or a TV show. It's just some zips or something.

[juno.livejournal.com]

Wow - I've heard of people having problems where the ipod contents are lost but having it delete the stuff on the HD? That really sucks.

I have stuff back up on CD and I just bought an external HD for this reason.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooh, Stephen. *lovse*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I had an external harddrive on my to-do list, clearly it should have been done earlier.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I am looking for my sanity. And Theodore's pants. But mostly my sanity. I reckon Neville has Theodore's pants.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's pretty much what I said. Minus the Out of Sync part. :D

[teaspoon.livejournal.com]

no problem! i have taken music from you in the past, and i would be devastated if all of mine were wiped, so. :)

[supergrover24.livejournal.com]

I just uploaded a mix the other day. I'm not sure how much is what you're into, but you're welcome to it. See Right Through Me (http://www.sendspace.com/file/4wnxn5). It's got the track listing saved in there as well. And if you want any of those full albums, just ask.