Cannot play music from itunes playlist

When I try to play from my itunes playlist I get the following message "The music you selected can’t be found or can’t be opened." This worked fine before I switched to Tiger (10.4.7). How do I fix this?

Hello, RobMcCal,
Welcome to the discussions!
Do you mean you cannot get a playlist to play in iPhoto's slideshow? Or in iTunes itself?
Your question was posted in the iPhoto discussions, and if it is an iTunes issue, you may get better responses by posting in that discussion forum.
Post back here with more specific information regarding your problem if it is with iPhoto so we can be of help to you.

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Hi, I looked through all your infos and posts, and none of the recommendations solved my problem. When I click a song, the little phono symbol is activated, but it does not play the song. The same is true if I click a song and then hit the play button on the top - no music is played. What is wrong here?
tx for help. Manuel

Hi Phil,
This is what exactly happens: I open iTunes, go into my Playlist and click on a song once to highlight it. Then I hit the play button on the top and the play symbol becomes a pause symbol. Nothing happens though. Only when I double click (not on teh play button, but directly on the song), does the song start to hypothetically play and the two sound bars appear - but still no sound and the song does not start to play at the top either (with the time indication)...
Thanks for enlightenment!
best, Manuel

I cannot play music from my itunes library. I keep getting an itunes message that says, "The song could not be used because the original file could not be found." Is there a fix for this? Thank you.

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Hello Turintest2,
I am having a similar problem. I have over 4000 songs giving me this error. I certainily don't want to go in one by one and find them. I know you wrote a script for Windows but I am a Mac user. Is there a fix for me? Here is the info on where the song is currently (used by doing the get info)
Here's a shot of my preferences:
Just FYI, I know that apparently iTunes is looking for this music in the trash. However, if I go here:
Then I find the music there as well. (Which is where it is in my preferences.)
Please help! I don't want to have to go through over 4000 songs and update them one by one.

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When I do this it does not allow me to REORGANIZE, I can only CONSOLIDATE.
Then your iTunes library is already organized according to the latest format. See this document on the organisation of the iTunes Library :
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3847
Sometimes the database files inside your iTunes Library can get corrupted.
Try to rebuild the file "iTunes Music Library.xml" as described here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25468
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It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer for just such an occasion. Use your backup copy to put everything back.
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Tell Apple to add this ability:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
As far as the app goes, I don't Know, as I don't use it. Just know you need an app to do playlists.

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I have a 25" 2.8 GHz Intel core 2 Duo working on OS X 10.8.4, within past 2 days we've had the black screen and the white screen, we are up and kicking again but I can leave the computer playing music from iTunes, but within 10 minutes the screen is back.

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If you are having issues connecting to the iTunes Store and iTunes Radio, you may find the following article helpful:
Can't connect to the iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1368
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Airplay cuts out when I play music from iTunes thru my reciever which is hooked up to a router with cat5 radio works fine could my device ( ipad iPod) be to far from router

zduffields wrote:
One weird thing: the drive never mounts on the desktop, the only way I can see it is to click on the TC in 'shared devices' in finder sidebar.
That's normal. A network drive won't mount by itself. You may want to add the drive to your login items and/or the login items of your boy's account.
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Has anybody else experienced this and maybe found a solution?
And if not, how can I downgrade to iTunes 7.5?

... and one other thing: I had to re-activate my computer repeatedly to be able to listen to the music bought in the iTunes store. After several vain attempts it finally worked when I accessed the piece directly in my music library instead of from a playlist. However, my computer was re-activated as a new pc although it had been activiated already before the upgrade.
And as to changing the infos - in my case to Soundtrack - this works only as long as the intelligent playlist tries to actually play he song. Then the info changes back automatically to the former status - in my case the German "Filmmusik" (meaning soundtrack in German).
So it seems that this is simply a localisation (or purely German?) problem with iTunes getting mixed-up with the non-English and English definitions. I now have changed all genre infos to "Filmmusik" instead of Soundtrack, and voila, it is working. - Very strange, indeed.
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