Question about storing music in iTunes

I currently use iTunes in windows and everytime I put music into my itunes library and then delete it from My Music file in my computer, it doesn't delete the song from iTunes, but it doesn't allow me to play the song anymore on my computer. Why is this?

Open iTunes and go to Edit>Preferences>Advanced>General. Look to see if there's a check mark beside "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library". If there's not then what is happening is that when you add your song to the library it is only adding a link to the location of the original file. When you delete the file from it's original folder iTunes still has the location but the songs isn't there to play any more: About the Add to Library, Import and Convert functions

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I bought about 350 musics on iTunes but when I click on the link to see the musics I bought, it shows only 204 musics

I bought about 350 musics on iTunes since I started using iPhone, but when I click on the link to see the items I have bought, iTunes shows me only 204 musics. This is a problem that annoys me because I have authorized a new device where I'd like to listen to all musics I have bought. I have already turned on the automatic transferences on the iTunes preferences so that all musics, books and apps are automatically transferred to the device. Even so, iTunes continues to show only 204 musics and I am not able to see all musics I have bought.
So, is there anything I'm missing here? Is there other local on iTunes where I could see all musics I have bought instead of only a subset of them?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Márcio

Just to better clarify what is happening: when I click on the link to show the musics I have bought on iTunes, musics that I had already bought some time ago do not appear anymore. So, I'm not able to download them anymore. For instance, in the set of the musics iTunes does not show me anymore there are 17 Peter Gabriel's musics. They are not shown and I cannot download them. So, how could I be able to download all musics I have bought instead of only 204 musics?
Thanks again
Márcio

Another question about adding music to iPhone

Apologies for yet another question regarding adding music to an iPhone but I am completely stuck.
I bought a new laptop in January (it runs windows 8). I've authorised it and synced my phone to it before. I've used it to add music before.
Lately I've just been buying music directly from itunes on my phone but I wanted to add some music from my older collection that is on an external harddrive.
I've gone through the process of syncing the phone again, which has wiped whatever was on there. I made sure I'd ticked on the "manually manage music" box.
It's put all my purchased music back but it still will not let me drag and drop music from my external harddrive. When I hover over with the file it has "link" but it won't actually send the music to the phone.
Is there a way for me to do this without putting music on to my itunes library? I don't like itunes and I definitely don't want to add the music to my laptop as it defeats the purpose of having an external harddrive! Sorry for such a long-winded explanation.

Just to add... I've now tried adding music to the library (getting desperate here) and it's not letting me do that either. Just says 'link'.
This is the most frustrating thing ever. Why are the simplest of tasks made so difficult? It seems like it only works if you buy the music from the iTunes store.

Questions about shared music

Hi everyone i just recently learned about how in itunes you can share your music and look at music on other itunes in your home. My question is what good is it? The only thing that i can see that you can do is play the song or show from that other computer, but you can not import it into the other itunes. Am i correct about this? Is there a way to import a song from a different mac's itunes in my home into my itunes? thanks in advance

The reason they do it is so you are not illegally allowing digital transfers of your music library. Authorizing and sharing are two different things. When you share your library, ANYBODY who can see your computer on a network who is running iTunes can then see your library. For example, say you live in an apartment building and someone is running an open wireless network to everyone in the building can hop on if they want and you are sharing your iTunes library. Everyone in the building, assuming they run iTunes, can pull up your library and listen to your music. If Apple made it so you could also import music off of shared libraries, you essentially would be running a mini-Napster in your apartment building. Neighborhoods with houses close to each other, college dorms, office buildings, etc. are all places were a LOT of people could potentially be able to access your shared library.
So the shared library is very useful/fun if you are in a place where a lot of people are on the same network and you can sample new and different stuff (think of it like having a lot of private custom radio stations available to you). If Apple had allowed free importing and copying of library files, then they would run up against the lawyers of the music industry. So they don't block that stuff just to be difficult to their users. They do it to keep their products legal and free of legal attacks.
Patrick

Question about my ipod and iTunes

I am stuck! Every time I connect my ipod into iTunes and try to update and then when it says updating ipod, do not disconnect, suddenly a pop up appears and says that iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close.
What do I do????????
Some please help me!!!!!!!!!!

I think you should try what was already suggested. There are programs other than iTunes that can manage your iPod music anyway, so if we're unable to successfully debug your iTunes problem you won't be completely stuck without music on your iPod. But I suspect mods wouldn't like it if I told you about the other software so you'll have to Google around for it yourself, as a last resort of course.
P.S. Katrina in your computer specs do you mean 3GHz instead of 300GHz maybe? Or 3000MHz or 300MHz? =)

Questions about Downloading Movies from Itunes

I have used itunes extensively for my music, but have never downloaded any movies or video. If I downloaded a movie from the Itunes store can I then burn it on to a disc. If so, it needs to be a DVD-R disc not a CD-R right? This may sound like a really dumb question, but I have never done this before. Thanks

From the itunes store terms of service:
"You shall not be entitled to burn video Products"
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html

General Question About Importing Music

Ok this is the scenario..
All of my music is saved in one folder.. Recently added files do not appear in iTunes library..
If in iTunes i select File>Add Folder and add my music folder, it is still not adding all my music from that folder and is also creating duplicates.
Am I the only one with this issue or can someone shed some light on any preferences I need to change, etc?

Just got off the phone with Apple support, still confused about how duplicates are created.. The rep informed me that it had nothing to do with iTunes, and a duplicate would only be created if there was an actual duplicate of the song on my computer.. which there isn't..
I just deleted my entire library, edit> selectall> rightclick> delete> chooseremove> choose keep files > file > add folder > selected music folder..
she assured me there should be no duplicates.. and it's going to take a while for my music to import, but i will update when it is done..

Storing Music on Itunes

Am I stuck storing all my downloaded music on my computer if I want it to stay on my ipod when I sync new songs? It's taking up way too much memory.

Click here and follow the instructions; they aren't applicable to the iPod shuffle.
An iPod shouldn't be the only place where the music is stored. If you purchased the content from the iTunes Store or don't have the CDs or other locations the music was imported from, back it up before proceeding.
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Question about taking music from mac to pc and pc to mac

I have a mac book and ipod nano that are only about 4 months old. Well the disk drive on my mac isn't working and I want to add some music to my ipod from a CD. I just downloaded itunes to my dad's PC(windows vista) so that I could upload the music. My cousin told me that she did this once nad t completely whiped all of her music off of her ipod when it synced. Will this really happen?
If I can't use the other computer is there a way I can use a flashdrive to add the music?

If your iPod is formatted for Mac it won't run natively on a PC because Windows operating systems don't recognize Mac OS-formatted disks (HFS or HFS Plus formats). Mac formatted iPods can only be used on a PC that has a third party helper program such as XPlay or MacDrive installed. XPlay is currently only compatible with Windows XP, 2000, Me or 98SE, a new version for Vista is planned for release later this year. Alternatively since Macs can read Windows formatting the other way to use an iPod on both platforms would be to restore the iPod in iTunes for Windows which of course would erase any content from it, not a viable alternative in your case I'm afraid: How to determine your iPod's disk format
As for using an iPod on multiple computers, to do this you need to change the update preference in the iPod Summary tab to "Manually manage music and videos" and click Apply. In this mode you can directly access the content of the iPod and play it through iTunes and you can drag and drop whatever you want to the iPod from either library:
Using iPod with Multiple computers
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I have a time capsule with over 120gb of music stored on it. I'd like to be able to stream this music directly from the time capsule to an airport express connected to a stereo in another room. I do have an iPhone 3G with the remote app. (I have not got the airport express, yet.)
I am really hoping that I can use the iPhone remote app to control the music playing through the airport express, without having to have a computer turned on and runing iTunes.
I believe this is possible with Apple TV, but since I don't own a TV or monitor other than my laptop screen, that isn't the most practical solution.
So, can I use airport express to stream music from a time capsule, without having to run iTunes on my MacBook?
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SevenDog

No.
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I have two questions about my podcast on iTunes - Image and Author

Hello. I have very recently added my podcast to iTunes, by submitting the RSS-feed that is given by wordpress (that's where I have my podcast homepage) It looks allright, and the feed includes Name of podcast, title of podcast shows, description and in some cases even length of the podcasts. There's two things not showing though, and that's an image for the iTunes page, and the name of the authors.
I'm not sure if you're allowed to link to your feed like this, but here is however the feed that I've sent to iTunes: http://rodrost.wordpress.com/category/podcast/feed/ . I thought that the picture up in the right (of me and a friend) would be the picture showing up on iTunes. And I don't understand where in my feed to put in the authors. If you could answer my questions I would be very grateful, thank you.
/ Joar.
(This is how it looks on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/se/podcast/rodrost-podcast-podcast/id507886804 )

Posting your feed URL is not only allowed, it's necessary to get answers to most questions, so thank you for posting it.
You are missing some necessary entries in your feed. The second line of your feed should include the 'iTues declaration':
xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"
which should be added within the 'rss' tag. Without this iTunes cannot read the 'itunes:...' tags which are in any case missing. The image is carried in the 'itunes:image' tag and your name in the 'itunes:author' tag, and there are other tags which carry information - your podcast is working without them but some information is as you see missing.
This page includes a sample basic feed so that you can see what I'm talking about:
http://rfwilmut.net/pc
I can't advise on Wordpress: it seems likely that you need the PodPress plugin to get this to work properly, but I'm not sure whether you can do it without.

Question about transferring music

When you transfer music from your current computer to a new computer, what all gets transferred? Is it just the music file, or do album art, play count, rating, etc. also get transferred?
Thank you!

Welcome to Discussions!
(Your name is the same as mine. Cool!)
If your iPod automatically updates when connect to the computer, all information in iTunes is transferred--music files, album art, play count, rating & any other info about the songs.
If the album art doesn't seem to be working, or some other part isn't transferring, let us know & we'll help you get things working again!
~Lyssa
Enjoy your iPod!

Question about moving music from an iPod to your computer.

In my household, we have iTunes on three different computers. My mother downloaded music on my brother's computer, and it's on his library. We want to burn a cd with the purchased album, but his computer does not have a cd burner, but the other two do. Is there a way to move music from one computer to another, or possibly moving music from an iPod to a computer's library?

Music is synced to iphone from itunes.
Plug in iphone and select whatever you like to sync from itunes to iphone.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

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Hi guys!
Im making a small presentation movie for my small companies website. I've added some tunes from the library in iMovie (I know there is free royalty-free music of there but i didnt find what I was looking for). From what i've heard the songs are royalty-free, right? But not maybe for commercial use?
Then i read something on this link (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=3846f9dc40458d5a&hl=en) meaning that I am allowed to use the tracks in movies or in Garageband arrangements for commercial use, but as long as the music clips are no longer than 30 seconds, and that i write some kind of credits to the artist or Apple.
Is this true? Anyone with an answer? I've searched for more license notes about iMovie but have'nt found anything.
Thank you so much guys for helping me of here!

I would add that sometimes a record company will claim ownership of one of the Apple jingles. YOu can contest this with YouTube, but do not say that you own the music. Say that you are licensed to use the track by Apple Computer and attach a link to 2C above.
Use of credits or attribution in the YouTube comments may help, but usually the process of the record company claiming it is automated. The comments will help only after YouTube reviews it.
I found that some minor rap artist was using one of the Apple Jingles in his rap record and the record company was flagging all videos that used this jingle. I was never able to convince YouTube that I had a right to this music. Very frustrating. You only get one chance to explain to YouTube why you have the right. After that, if the record company still contests it, YouTube will assume the record company is right and offer you a path that includes going to federal court to prove your case.
Youtube is horrible on this, but maybe they have to be given the large number of videos added every day.

I have a question about incomplete music downloads.

Hello,
I have an older iPod touch (3rd generation) running iOS 5.1.1. I've had it and enjoyed it for a few years.
Sometimes, when I buy music off of the iTunes app on the device, they won't download and show up in the Music app with a little stop sign with what would be the loading circle around it.
I can't delete them off of the iPod directly or via computer.
Sometimes, they play, and other times they either simply won't or will play the next song in the playlist with the title and album art of the undownloaded s
Please note that I do have an older device and simply updating to iOS 6 won't fix the problem because that is not possible.
I'm just wondering how I can clear or restart these downloads. iTunes on the computer hasn't been much help.
Thank you in advance.

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
If still problem, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store since it appears you have a hardware problem.
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