I can't play any of my music in itunes 7

i downloaded itunes 7 and quick time 7.1.3 last night and now none of my music will play at all. My ipod still works fine. Can someone please help me out as i have over 3000 songs on my computer and i can't play them. I can play them in other apllications like vlc and quick time but not itunes. what is going on?

See my 1st post in thus thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3096113#3096113

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Help! When I click on iTunes, I get this message:
iTunes has detected a problem with your audio configuration. Audio/Video playback may not operate properly.
Now, whenever I want to listen to a song on iTunes, it doesn't even start.
What does this mean? How do I fix it? Thanks

Hi petewils63,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions forums!
It sounds like you may have a damaged program, try uninstalling and then reinstalling iTunes.
hope that solves your problem.
regards,
Pete.

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All my music has disappeared from iTunes, even my purchased stuff & it has an explanation mark next to it. It says locate file but they are nowhere to be found in the iTunes or any folder. Also I can't play the missing tracks in the iTunes Store. What should I do?

Hi Topher23Gunner,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like there is an issue with music missing from iTunes. The articles below should help you resolve the issue, the first will help you locate missing files and the second describes a software conflict with a small group of PCs.
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
iTunes creates an empty library file in Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2715
I hope this helps.
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If you are having issues with audio playback in iTunes for Windows, you may find the following article helpful:
iTunes and QuickTime for Windows: Audio does not play or plays incorrectly
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1362
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2 - what version of iPhoto did you have? What version did you upgrade to? What version of the OS do you have?
3 - what exactly happens when you launch iPhoto?
4 - with no backup it is just a matter of time until you lose all of yoru files including your photos - thing do happen and with no backup you are 100% guarenteed to lose everyhing sooner or later
as a wild guess backup, depress the option and command keys, launch iPhoto and rebuild your iPhoto library database
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Any body seen this type of problem after the update??
After upgrading to iTunes 7.4.3.1 I can't play any music on my PC. iTunes allows me to select the tune piece from the library, loads the player and just sits there not advancing the song.
If I try to play am MP3 through Windows Media Player same thing happens. I also can't play any of the video files I have on dick either. They play a few seconds worth, pause, then play a pit more and it repeats.
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+If I try to play am MP3 through Windows Media Player same thing happens.+
If two of your media players are doing that, we'd better have a look in your control panels.
Open your "Sounds and Audio Devices" control panel. Click the "Audio" tab.
Is the correct default device showing up in the "Sound Playback" area?

Can't play any music on PC any more

Hi there
I have 5800 CWM phone and the CWM licence expired in October 2010. Tthat's fine, as I was able to keep playing the music I had downloaded on both my registered PC and the phone itself.
After a little while I could no longer transfer music from PC to phone. I have about 20GB of music and the phone has about 5GB of space for music so periodically I would transfer different stuff to the phone.
Then I started being unable to play some songs on the PC at all - licence problems for some songs while others would play OK.
Now I can not play any music on the PC at all. I'm getting an error messge saying there is no licence, then an optimistic message saying "Your licence is being delivered" which would not happen. Then I would get a message saying I needed to delete the song/album and redownload it from my download history. I can see my download history but no longer have an option to re-download it - I can only buy it.
Additionally I am now getting a messge saying that "We can't sign you in" and that I need an OVI Music account which I already have. I can login to Ovi.com with it just fine.
This is starting to get really tiresome. From having a handset which i could download any music for a year and keep after the year was up, on both the PC and the phone. I now only have the music that is already on the phone. The remaining music I can't access and indeed can't play any of it at all on the PC.
Does anyone else have this kind of problem that has been fixed? BTW it is now a level 3 support problem with no fix in sight. Sorry for the long post.
Cheers
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Periwinkle

Update
(Apologies if this sounds familiar to anyone0
Finally got the first part of the problem fixed. Though Ovi player said it was my registered PC, it was not. Nokia support (2nd level?) reset it so I can now see my Download History.
All was fine initially - started re-downloading all the albums I had downloaded and which no longer worked.
Fine for stuff after Oct 2010. Anything older than that I cannot download the album with 1 click, and instead have to download each individual track one at a time, then navigate away from that page, then back again to get track 2 etc etc. Which is about a 30sec round trip for each track. I had about 519 albums with about 8000 songs lots of classical) so that's 4000 minutes for me sat here manually downloading everything again.
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Even having a REFRESH option on the download history page would be nice. Or navigation to pages at the TOPas well as the bottom of the page.
It really starts to look like it is designed to be so frustrating that people eventually don't bother any more. It'll take me months (at 1 hour a day) to manually download all the stuff I used to have.
Rant over.
Periwinkle

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Hi,
If you don't have a back up, you have lost your music.
If you have iTunes Store purchases, you can go into iTunes Store and redownload previous purchases.
Jim

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Hi there
Our desktop computer was painfully slow so backed up everything to hard drive (as 1 file) and did factory restore to computer. We have managed to get our photos and documents back to our pc but have struggled with itunes. We now have all our music there in our library but can not play any of it unless the hard drive is plugged in (says cannot locate the file when not plugged in). I manually consolidated files for one album which now means it will play without hard drive but I can't drag that to our iphones & ipods. Please help! Thanks.

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Do what Katrina says and that will most likely fix it.
Usually, when this happens, it's because a new device has been added via USB, like even a thumb drive.
When windows boots up, it assigns drive letters to the external devices. If it does it out of order from what it used to do, that effectively changes the location of your music files.
So if you've added anything to your computer via a different USB port, try taking that out. Of course you'd have to reboot after that.
But the permanent solution is what Katrina says, but you might need more detailed instructions on how to achieve what she says.
Look at the XML file to see what the drive is supposed to be. Open My Computer and match it with what your external harddrive is. If they don't match, there's your answer.
Once you fix that, your exclamation marks will disappear; you don't have to re-import or anything silly like that.

HT1933 My new computer has been authorized, but I can't play any of my purchased songs in itunes. What do I do to play, I get an error message that original files cannot be found.

My new HP ENVY 23 TOUCHSMART PC has been authorized for itunes, but I can't play any of my purchased itunes songs. When I try to play a purchased song in my itunes library, I get an error message prompt stating that the song could not be used because the original file could not be found. When I check for available downloads it states that all downloads have been made. Ironically, all my movie purchases play fine, but the songs do not play. What do I have to do to play my purchased songs?

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If you still have your old computer then you can try copying them over again : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
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but this is only for the songs downloaded on my phone. I can't play any songs on my phone, only on the original itunes library. Whats going on??

The iPod backup that iTunes makes does not inlcuded synced media like apps and music. Thes those iTunes are not restored to the iPod unless they are in the iTunes library.
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- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
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- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
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- Restore from backup. See:
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I can't play any of my music in itunes 7

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