Clicking harddisk, corrupt songs. It could be iTunes.

AIFF's in my collection that used to play well, suddenly got corrupt. The AIFF's weren't playable anymore. Everytime I clicked the play-button, the beachball popped up and the hard disk started making a clicking-sound.
I copied the corrupt AIFF's by choosing 'Convert selection to AIFF'. This way I was able to listen to the songs again. The copies of the corrupt AIFF's played well. But the copying process made the HD start clicking and the speedball turning.
So I got rid of the corrupt songs, but I'm still wondering how I got them after all.
Some people told me they thought I'm having a harddisc problem. But how could this be? After I deleted the corrupt AIFF's, it's not clicking anymore.

There are various ways, read this and choose the best option for you!
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
If you do not have access to the old computer any more then you will only be able to transfer purchased items from your iPod to your new computer using iTunes.
There are various programs on the internet that would allow you to pull non-purchased content.
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Greetings all
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On some of my files there is a ! in front of it, if I try to play the song, I get an error message; "The song "_____" could not be used, because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" Then when I click "Locate", I get nothing.

I'm really dumbfounded on this one and it's driving me bonkers!!!! On some of my music files there is a ! in front of it, if I try to play the song, I get an error message; "The song "_____" could not be used, because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?"
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I was not complete clear.
Since you never changed the settings in the advanced section of iTunes preferecnes, you have to chech that your music is really in the location setted in the folders reported in the advanced section. If not you have 2 ways: reset the position of this folders or in the actual disk organisation or in the pointing on the preferences.
If you press the reset button you just give to itunes its default setting as for the position of the music files: probably this will be a good choice if you have never changed any default preference.
But before I would check the folders and see if the songs are really there
In my iTune I have this, and I believe it is the default.
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Clicking harddisk, corrupt songs. It could be iTunes.

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