HT1451 I seem to goofed up somewhere.If I try to play several songs in a playlist,the same same song keeps playing again and again.I also notice that there is a ! mark next to the serial no of the song in the playlist.I don't recall seeing this sign befor

Question

I have been using I Tunes Playlists for some time.
Recently, I was creating some new playlists, and seem to have goofed up somewhere.When I open an existing playlist,and when I try to play each of the songs in the playlist,the same song plays,even though I scroll down to the next song.I also notice that,there is a    !    sign next to the serial nos of each song.How can I remove this sign ?I suspect that this is the problem.
Thanks

Answer 1

The exlamation mark 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 cancel when asked to try 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.
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 .
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