Deleting "lost" songs after transfer?

When transfering songs from an E-book I lost alot of my library (got the ! next to songs)...how do I delete goups of songs without going through the whole list? And, is there any way to automatically delete "dead"songs from library? Thanks All

... is there any way to automatically delete "dead"songs from library?
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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