The bastard Tiger ate my music

[Randman]

You can recover data but it's expensive.

Hence, the need for backup.

[Lt Major Burns]

firstly, my ipod (40gb) does delete at a phenomenal rate (a previous loss of music, exactly the same as yours, except i managed to have a backup then. the backup is now erased, and being used elsewhere. grr)

my jaw dropped when that one hit me.

secondly, yes, you can get data recovery. i also looked into this. (the eclecticism of that 14.4gb was immense, and i want them back)

it starts at about £200 and goes all the way up to 5 figures.... fortunately with mine, the files were deleted, so i made sure i kept the itunes library complete, with all the dead links intact. i have a record of what was there, but not the actual songs. it';s going to take years to get it all back.

i felt like crying at the time