How do I update iTunes without loosing my existing library ratings and playlists?
I am so tired of deleting the songs the program cannot find because I did an update! with over 7500 songs loaded this takes a while, I loose all my ratings and songs in my playlists. The songs don't go away I just have to add the file folder again so it can find the songs. Fine, but then I am left with over 7500 "duplicates" that were originally loaded with ratings and sorted into playlists. Anyone know about this?
The "missing file" thing happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout, or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then say no when asked to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions. I can provide a step by step guide if you give me the two paths.
In some cases iTunes may be able to repair itself if you go through the same steps and locate the lost track. It may then offer to attempt to automatically fix other broken links. Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes.
Or see this post on deduplication.
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