HT1349 Missing Music on I Tunes

I can't see any of my playlists or songs in my "music" folder in my ITunes account. What happened? Thanks for your help.

No (I mean, No - the iTunes icon on your phone isn't causing the problem with your computer), your iPhone does have an iTunes icon on it - that allows you to purchase music and other stuff from the iTunes store. It also lets you look at purchased items and makes them available for you to download directly from iTunes to your device.
But, back to the computer/iTunes issue. What type of computer are you running on? What version of iTunes are you running?
Cheers,
GB

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I purchases music from i tunes from my computer when i synced phone my camera and photos are gone i tried to re syce now it says it cant back up says file is corrupt any ideas would be appr

ipurchace some music from i tunes from my computer then syced my iphone 4 got a message cant back up phone file corupt but the music was put on the phone but my camera was missing in the apps and my photos wont pull up corectley tried to sync a couple of times still had same issues help would be appriciated

It does not immediately delete the files that are missing.. it merely tries to backup the new files it has discovered on the external drive. Since you moved the files there, the backup at least for a while will contain both copies.. and that is why it doesn't have enough space to backup.
Fixing the problem.. hmm pondini is the expert.. you should be able to delete the backup of the photos in existing backup.. there are instructions to do it.. but it is a very poor way to do things.
Much better. .archive off the existing backup.. this is long and slow but worth it. you need a usb drive of the same size as the TC drive. Then erase the TC and start a fresh set of backups.
The alternative is to use the USB drive as a new target.. but it is much slower than the TC internal drive.
http://pondini.org/TM/12.html

HT1320 how do i change my old ipod for a new one but keep my music on i tunes and not have to reload it

how do i change my old ipod for a new one but keep my music on i tunes and not have to reload it

Ok me again I once changed one ipod classic for another ipod classic on the same laptop , all my music on iTunes (300 CDs) where still there but could not be found by iTunes to load on to the new ipod , I had to load every CD again to solve , should I have reset the first ipod or something?

Itunes: i want to find a single fix for missing music on itunes rather than using "iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads" on a case by case basis.

recently when i was creating a playlist, i realized that i was missing music from my extensive itunes (12.0.1.26) library. i found the solution "itunes: finding lost media and downloads" and used the general approach to find the music in finder and copy it to itunes. i don't want to do this every time i find i am missing music. is there an automated fix? i want apple to develop a way to automate the fix. can it be that this isn't a problem for many people?
i ask this now because i just looked for music i thought i had but can't find. maybe i am wrong about having the artist, but it has happened on another artist too. i can't trust itunes to tell me whether i have a song or not. i don't want to keep going back to finder, especially when the instructions in "itunes: finding lost media and downloads" doesn't actually reflect my system (os x 10.7.5).
i don't want to try to do a restore. i have never done a restore on my mac (previously a pc user). and, i don't know how far back to take the restore to find the old music. and then music i have added since i lost the old music wouldn't be there.
i understand that there are so many system variables that apple would need to take into consideration with a general fix. but: i am assuming that apple's changes have caused my problem and feel that apple should do something to fix it. perhaps my assumption is incorrect.
thank you for your help.

limnos, i always have backups. the problem is that i don't know how far back in time to take a restore because i don't know how long this has been going on. and, if i take the restore back very far, i will lose what has been added since the music started to disappear.
i don't even know what you mean when you say "you will check there aren't any broken links (use a script from the Dougscripts web site) before you do a backup."
i agree with you to some extent about not automatically installing upgrades. i'm still running lion and was pushed to it from snow leopard. the problem is that i have a hard time envisioning the changes described in an update to judge whether something is valuable or not.
i have questions about your last paragraph. i'm going to repeat it here and then insert my questions as i go. please forgive my all caps for the moment:
"Now for your missing music, is it that there are broken links, or are things missing completely from the library?" I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. I BELIEVE THAT THE PROBLEM HAS TO DO WITH BROKEN LINKS. WHEN I COULDN'T FIND THE MUSIC THAT I THOUGHT I HAD LOADED INTO ITUNES YEARS AGO, I FOUND THE CD'S AND IMPORTED THEM TO ITUNES. I GOT A MESSAGE ABOUT SOME OF THE TRACKS BEING DUPLICATES THAT ASKED WHETHER I WANTED TO IGNORE OR IMPORT. I CHOSE IMPORT BECAUSE ITUNES DIDN'T TELL ME WHAT WAS DUPLICATED. IT WAS ONLY AFTER RE-IMPORTING SEVERAL CD'S THAT I REALIZED THAT THERE WERE NOW DUPLICATES OF THE CD'S: THE FILES I HAD JUST LOADED AND THOSE THAT I HAD LOADED SOME TIME AGO. THE ORIGINALS MAGICALLY APPEARED AFTER I RE-IMPORTED THE CD'S. I'M GUESSING THAT THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A BROKEN LINK I DON'T KNOW HOW TO RECOGNIZE A BROKEN LINK OR HOW TO PREVENT ONE. AFTER I REALIZED THE PROBLEM, I FOUND THE "FINDING LOST MEDIA AND DOWNLOADS" QUIDE. I LOCATED THE MISSING MUSIC IN FINDER AND DRAGGED IT TO ITUNES. DOES THIS COUNT AS A BROKEN LINK?
"If the latter and you use iTunes default settings for managing media, you can drag your media folder to Automatically Add To iTunes. It should add anything in the folder but not in the library list but ignore things that are." CAN YOU REPHRASE THIS LAST PARAGRAPH? I DON'T KNOW WHAT "DEFAULT SETTINGS FOR MANAGING MEDIA" MEANS.
FOR "DRAG MEDIA FOLDER TO AUTOMATICALLY ADD TO ITUNES," I THINK YOU MEAN I CAN DRAG /MUSIC/ITUNES/ITUNES MEDIA/MUSIC IN FINDER TO THE ITUNES ICON IN THE DOCK. AND, THAT THAT ACTION WILL REPLACE ANYTHING MISSING IN ITUNES BUT NOT DUPLICATE THE FILES THAT ARE IN ITUNES. IS THAT RIGHT?
thank you for your time and help, limnos.

I purchased a mac book air today. When in store I was able to see all of my music in itunes. Now I am at home I cant see any of my music although i tunes is authorized on the computer. How do I fix this ?

I purchased a mac book air today. When in store I was able to see all of my music in itunes. Now I am at home I cant see any of my music although i tunes is authorized on the computer. How do I fix this ?

The warranty entitles you to complimentary phone support for the first 90 days of ownership.

Recently I was adding music to my Ipod Touch and charging it, afterwards, my Itunes was missing music, does anyone know what happend?

A few days ago, I plugged my ipod touch into my computer to charge it, and also add new music I purchased. When I unplugged the USB cable ( I disconnected it from the ipod first, as I was told to do) I went to look through my music. There was a notification, I don't remember what it said verbatum, but the gist was "177 songs could not be properly synced onto your device". Now, I'm missing music from my itunes library. For example, I purchased two full albums from the same band, now over half the songs from the albums are just gone, they are no longer on my ipod or itunes. Does anyone know what happend, and/or how I can fix this? Please and thank you
P.S. This happend after installing itunes 6, I've noticed many other people are also having problems with it as well

Could be several things. Without more information like what was the wording of the error message I will not even guess.
You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

Hard drive on my MacBook, iTunes was not backed up. Purchases were recovered, but missing music is trapped on other devices (iPad, iPod & iPhone). Is there a way to transfer music from these devices (esp. iPhone & iPad) to MacBook?

I had to replace my hard drive on my MacBook and iTunes was not backed up. All of our purchases were recovered, but we are missing music that we now have only on other devices (iPad, iPod and iPhone). Is there a way to recover music from these devices? Also, the missing music on the MacBook that is on the iPhone is greyed out so I can't play it. What's the deal? How can I change that?
BTW- I am going to purchase an external hard drive to make sure this never happens again. I'm am also discovering other missing very valuable data. I'm considering investing in iMatch, too.

Try PhoneView: http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/
iTunes Match is not a backup strategy. Do not rely upon it for disaster recovery. For that you need to use Time Machine or "clone" software.

Deleting music from i-tunes after storing on external hard drive

I am running out of space on my hard drive from transfering and purchasing music from i-tunes. I have an externl hard drive where I have been backing up all my CD transfers and i-tunes purchases. I would first like to delete all my music from i-tunes. I have it set up now where all my new music is going to my external hard drive It is doing this but also showing up in my i-tunes library. I assume this is for me to sync with my i-pod? Would like to just be able to run the i-tunes program directly through my hard drive if this is possible? Also when I tried to delete the music it said it would be removed from my i-pod as well? I-Tunes support said to click on my recycle bin and then empty recycle bin. I tried this but did not find the link to click? Any info would be greatly appreciated! Thanks djfree

You only have to open Finder and select your external disk on the Finder sidebar. Then, open iTunes, select the songs with Command key and drag them onto the Finder window that you have previously opened

ITunes stops working when I try to import missing music files

I don't know why, but every time I try to import missing music files into iTunes, a pop up suddenly comes up saying iTunes has stopped working. Does anybody know if it may just be a bug in the program or anything like that? Because of this, I am now having to manually reimport the missing files which takes forever!! Please help!!.

Hello, onedirectionlover1993.
Thank you for the question. Try the steps in the article below as they may help you resolve the issue that you are experiencing with iTunes becoming unresponsive.
iTunes for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8: Fix unexpected quits or launch issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1717
Cheers,
Jason H.

Movies and Music on I Tunes

This makes no sense to me...
When i purchase music from I Tunes, i can beautifully send the audio to my home theatre system, but if i purchase Tv shows and movie from I Tunes, i am expected to listen to the audio thru speakers on my laptop?
What the F?

You might want to take a look at Airfoil to be able to direct any audio source on your computer to your stereo.

I see my music in i tunes, but can't find it in computer or iphone, what to do?

I see my music in i tunes program, but i can't find it in my computer or iphone. Where did they go? I just updated software.
Thank you, Dan

I didn't even know this was possible. I just uncheck my holiday tracks so they won't be on my iPod until I want them there, then I recheck the songs.

HT201272 i seem to be missing music from my itunes account - it was there earlier this week and when i plugged in my phone to download music, itunes seems to have updated my phone but not my music and it is no where to be found

i am missing music from my computer and iphone - i plugged in my phone earlier this week to download purchased music. when i looked at my phone it updated all information on my phone but my music was missing along with apps - i have no music at all and only the very recent songs i purchased are on my computer in my itunes account - i cannot find my previously purchased songs.

You'll have to update your OS on your Macbook.
Click on the black Apple logo at the top left of your Mac screen. Then click on Software Update.
support.apple.com/kb/ht1338

How to get my new music in I tunes to i pod

... usually I put the white lead in the computer and this is done automatically. However, nothing seems to happen when I put the lead in the computer and then the pod.
Two hours later and I have no idea.
Please help me, as I want to get my new music on my pod before I hit the gym today.
Thank you

Hi
I guessed which window's I had.
Not sure if I explained myself well, but when I put the usb to bring the music from i tunes to my i pod, the 'device' section does not come up, and thus I cannot put music onto my pod.
I have never had a problem like this before. i'm on my usual computer. I have not been messing with anyone else's computer.
I have spent the whole day looking on i pod support, and looking on the web, but I have no clue as to what I have done.
Regards

Where can I find, unplugged / acoustic music in it tunes? There doesn't seem to be very much available.

Where can I find, unplugged / acoustic music in it tunes? There doesn't seem to be very much available.

What's available is what the record companies and artists have licensed Apple to sell in your country. There is no genre for "acoustic" or "unplugged", though, so what is there may be a bit tricky to find. You can try doing a Power Search with "unplugged" or "acoustic" in the album title field, but that will of course only find those albums which have those words actually in the title. Otherwise, you may have to look for album titles for acoustic music on some other site and then look for the specific album in the iTunes Store.
Regards.

How can I force Itunes to show me the missing music in my library?

How can I force Itunes to show me the missing music in my library? Somwhere I found that if you Select all, Ctrl-I it would do it. But it did not help. I need to find the broken ones! Help!

Create a new, regular playlist named All music.
Drag everything under Library > Music to this playlist.
Create a new Smart playlist.
Match all rules;
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Playlist is not All music. This contains all songs that cannot be found

HT1349 Missing Music on I Tunes

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