p2pnet.net news:- News of possible bad interaction between iTunes 7.1 and LimeWire is being reported on TUAW.com.

"I work at [an Apple service provider]," said an anonymous poster yesterday, going on:

"Today we saw [multiple] iTunes libraries completely corrupted; looks like the culprit was Limewire not playing well with the newest version of iTunes."

"All had just updated to the new version of iTunes and all had Limewire set to automatically update their iTunes library with new songs. One [library] was not salvageable, though the other two were (after much pain and suffering)."

TUAW links to two Apple support threads.

"Last week my iTunes library was fine and dandy and all of a sudden because of having looked for shared settings toggled, it found one of my roommates Limewire folder," says one. "After deselecting the looked for shared iTunes continued to work fine for the rest of the time I used it. The next time I opened iTunes it said my library was corrupted and prompted me to look for new artwork, now my original library, playlists, etc. is gone and when I plug in my iPod or V3i it says that the devices are synched with another library. Is there anyway to recover my library, I’ve tried reinstalling, importing the previous libraries."

"Just installed Limewire, and iTunes doesn’t open," says the other. "I just get the timer and then nothing. I have NIS 2005, and have had a problem like this before, where I fixed it here, but don’t remember how…"

Slashdot it!

Also See:
TUAW.com – LimeWire reportedly unhappy with iTunes 7.1, March 14, 2007

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