I purchased songs on itunes at various times and I am unable to play some of them that display an upside i??

I purchased songs on Itunes at various times and months and I am unable to play some of them. The display says unable to locate file and has a upside down "i." Can anyone help?

Hi 11201019,
It sounds like you have a question about the exclamation point (!) next to some of your songs in iTunes. Here is an article that can explain what this means:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Symbols used in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12306
Exclamation point
Next to a song: The song can’t be located; it may have been moved or deleted.
Next to a podcast: Recent episodes haven’t been downloaded because you have multiple unplayed episodes.
You will want to use the following article to help you address this issue with missing songs:
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
Since you mentioned that these are purchased items, you may also want to try re-downloading said purchases:
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden

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If you're syncing with a different iTunes library than the one you previously synced with, then there is no way around it. You're gonna loose the old data. The only way round it would be to make sure that all the music files on your iPhone is also in your iTunes library. If you still have access to the computer with the old library, you could copy the files on to an external harddrive, and then import them into your new iTunes library.
If it is in fact the same library, then the music currently on your iphone, is also in your itunes library. Just make sure that the artists/albums/playlists, or whatever you sync contains these tracks, that you allready have on your phone and don't want deleted. What i do is, i create a playlist specifically for my iPhone, and i set it up to only sync with this playlist. Whenever i hear a track from my iTunes library or buy a new track that i want on my phone, i just drag it to this playlist and next time i synchronize, it's there without deleting anything else.

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I already looked through this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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I’ve spent some time researching this problem yesterday and I ran into a myriad of vaguely similar problems didn’t really offer any help. Currently I’m thinking that formatting the iPod might work, and restoring the software afterwards. However this is a rather bold strategy so I’d like to consult you here first.
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Thank you for the info, with formatting my iPod I managed to connect it to iTunes again.
However..in the page you linked to there is a section about how transferring large amounts of data can dump your library. That seems to be the problem in this case. It won't even allow me to transfer more than 2 gigabytes of music per sync, if I go higher it will dump everything again. Having over >60 GB of music in my library, this is disastrous to say the least.
Do you think that there is any other solution besides the method you mentioned involving Smart Playlists?

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If you live in a Region that allows re-downloading Music...
Delete the Song(s) and re-download...
See Here > Download Past Purchases > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
If not... Contact iTunes Customer Service > Apple Support iTunes Store Contact Us

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Hello, vanchamber.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you are missing purchased media, you can download this media again by following the steps in the article below.
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
Cheers,
Jason H.

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Delete them and redownload them by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

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When I search for those song in my library, it shows that I do not have them:
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This is what things look like from my phone's side of things:
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Also, this is what playlists are on my phone after syncing a million times:
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Hi Petrafin,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
You can download your purchases directly to your computer.
Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Cheers,
- Judy

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Usually a 69 indicates damage to a file ... but it's a bit suspicious that everything acquired in a short time frame is showing a -69. That has me wondering about disk damage.
Perhaps try running a disk check (chkdsk) over your C drive (or whichever drive you've got the 69-throwing content on).
XP instructions in the following document: How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP
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Are the songs playing whole in iTunes? if not download them again.
else read this Apple Support Article on your problem
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See this older thread for a few possible solutions.
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