With the death of iTunes, here’s what happens to your carefully curated music library - Fast Company

With the death of iTunes, here’s what happens to your carefully curated music library  Fast Company

The shock and panic must have been clear on my face because my wife says she’s never seen me more emotionally distraught. It was late on the night of September 10, 2011. We’d just returned from my son’s third birthday party, and I was staring at my iPod with the sinking realization that my iTunes library of 7,000 songs had just disappeared after I’d hooked it up to a stereo system to DJ the event. And it wasn’t backed up! It was almost impossible to comprehend—this was years of tracks I’d burned from my collection of 4,000 vinyl records, 1,000 CDs, illegally downloaded MP3s, and a handful o...