Deleting broken files in library

Sorry if I am doing this wrong but this is my first post here and I'm not very familiar with this forum.
ANYWAYS, I was wondering if anyone knows how/if its possible to delete all of the broken music files in my iTunes library at once, instead of deleting them all individually. I would like to know because I have MANY (I accidently deleted a music folder and erased all my music in that folder permanently) and it takes a long time to delete them individually. I have looked around and cannot seem to find that capability.
Thanks in advance!

Hi, sboyd92.
MacMuse's User Tip should provide the solution to your problem.
Below, I've taken the liberty of making a couple of minor changes in the wording that hopefully make it just a bit easier to follow:
- Select the Music entry in your iTunes Source List (the left-hand column).
- Select/highlight all the entries. Edit menu > Select All will do the trick.
- Now go to the File menu > Get Info.
- Confirm that you want to edit information for multiple items.
- Assuming that you're not using it for actual song information, enter 99 in the BPM field. Press OK.
- Wait for iTunes to retag the song files. Depending on the size of your Music Library, this may take a while.
- Once that's finished, click on the BPM column heading in the main iTunes Library display to sort your songs based on the BPM entry. If the BPM column isn't showing, go to the View menu > View Options, check BPM and press OK.
- Since iTunes wasn't able to find the files for the "dead" tracks, it couldn't retag them and they will be listed separately from the "live" (99 BPM) tracks.
- You can now click on the first of the dead tracks and Shift-click on the last of them, then right-click > Delete.
That should be it.
As MacMuse suggests, you might now want to go back and take the 99 out of the BPM field in case you ever have to do this again.

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