Bad links to songs on Itunes

When I got my new computer, I accidently imported my songs more than once. I ended up with two, three, or once even nine copies of certain songs. As I have been deleting them from my folder, the songs keep appearing on I-Tunes, but come up as bad links when I click on them. Is there a way to make I-Tunes automatically delete the bad links that are created?

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Have you set up WIndows so it will always use the same drive letter for that exHD? Plugging in cameras, etc to different USBs can make windows reassign things on you.
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So when I realized that iTunes wasn't recognizing the songs because the path/filename was modified, I tried to change the folders/filenames to what they were before they were modified. (I do a periodic export from iTunes and used my most recent export to determine the previous path.) When I corrected the folders/filenames to what iTunes recognized, the songs could be played and the exclamation points disappeared. Going forward, should I do this re-cataloging (restoring the folder/filename) for each unrecognized song, or should I re-locate the song through iTunes? The latter sounds like the easier method although when I tried doing it for one of the songs it appear to create a duplicate of the song. Anyone know why?

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I searched and couldn't find anything on this. What I'd like to do is "link" two songs so that when I play songs from my library in shuffle mode, if the first song comes up, it is automatically followed by the second. For example, Queen's "We will rock you" followed by "We are the Champions" just seems right.
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MP3 Splitter/Joiner:
http://www.ezsoftmagic.com/
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You'll need to copy the content on your iPod back to your iTunes library first. Once you have successfully done that you can safely erase and sync your iPod.
See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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Perhaps creating a static playlist would take care of that.

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Hi everyone,
just wondering if someone could help me.
I bought a song from iTunes a couple of weeks ago and it was fine..... however 2 weeks ago I noticed that it stops halfway through and goes to the next song. This has never happened me before so I don't think it could be my iTunes inself.
Has anyone come across this before??
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You should try this suggestion given to me by b noir as follows:
"I'd report the problem to the iTunes Store.
Log in to the Store. Click on "Account" in your Quick Links. When you're in your Account information screen, go down to Purchase History and click "See all".
Find the items that are not playing properly. If you can't see "Report a Problem" next to the entries, click the "Report a problem" button. Now click the "Report a Problem" links next to the items."
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But if I go to the iTunes store, I get the play button and not the price of the song:
This is what things look like from my phone's side of things:
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Hi Petrafin,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
You can download your purchases directly to your computer.
Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Cheers,
- Judy

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Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
Otherwise, I'd report the problem to the iTunes Store.
Log in to the Store. Click on "Account" in your Quick Links. When you're in your Account information screen, go down to Purchase History and click "See all".
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Sometimes when I play songs in Itunes by double clicking on them, Itunes will place the song as the first one on the album. It will chnage the order of the songs on the album, and I can not switch them back to the correct order.

Sometimes when I play songs in Itunes by double clicking on them, Itunes will place the song as the first one on the album. It will chnage the order of the songs on the album, and I can not switch them back to the correct order. This onloy seems to happen when I double-click on the song to play it in itunes. If I just hit play, this doesnt happen. As a result, I have several albums now in which the songs are in the wrong order. Its very frustrating, as this error then transfers over to my ipod every time I sync it. When I choose the info. for the songs, it has them correctly listed (i.e., it lists the songs as being #1 of 19 on the CD, for example). But then the song will have placed by Itunes as #5 of 19 for whatever reason. Itunes does not do this every time, but does it with enough frequency to be maddening. Any thoughts?

The problem of tracks becoming de-linked between iTunes and the music files in your iTunes music folder happens for different reasons - this seems to come up fairly commonly in this forum.
The solution can be to locate each song in the iTunes library, as you mentioned - or, but wait, before I get to that...
trouble finding the original track in your iTunes music folder? maybe look for it under compilations, or if not using the 'group compilations preference' then look in the folder under the songs artist name, but what song artist name iTunes uses depends on what you have in the metedata tag spot for album artist or song artist. Any varyation in artist name spelling, in the menu item 'get info' metadata for any selected individual track will cause iTunes to create that as a separate artist folder in the library, even names like 'various' or any difference at all (even the word 'the' can change where in your iTunes music folder a track gets placed by iTunes). You can try to use the finder function of find file (finder munu item outside of iTunes) to locate hard to find items.
Back to how to re-link any de-linked tracks .
There may be scripts that can help re-link de-linked music files - or, at least provide you a list of such files, Scripts are easy to install and use...
at Dougs Scripts, there is one called iTunes Track CPR that might work
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=itunestrackcpr
or, if you just want a list of de-linked tracks, go to
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
and find the script called List MIA's, this will create a text file listing all de-linked tracks
if you review the thread at
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3633708
also the thread at
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17513078#17513078
you may find more insight into dealing with this kind of issue there, although some of that thread may not apply to your case, aspects of it might help.
Good luck.

IPod Classic not syncing all my songs from iTunes

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Check through this.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1420

My e-mail has changed, but I purchashed some songs in iTunes using my old e-mail address as my account name... so when I try to play the sonngs I bought and paid for - it keeps asking me to authorize my PC first, but I don't remember the password!

My e-mail has changed, but I purchashed some songs in iTunes using my old e-mail address as my account name... so when I try to play the sonngs I bought and paid for - it keeps asking me to authorize my PC first, but I don't remember the password! And since the old e-mail address is no longer active, I can't even chenge the password- becasue it's sends the link to do so via e-mail! Even when I use the "ask personal questions" option to verify and it asks me for my date of birth, I put it in and it still won't acccept.

Hello there, loupar.
The following Knowledge Base article offers up just how to change your Apple ID for the App Store on your iOS device:
iOS: Sign in with a different Apple ID in the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1311
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
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