! - in front of some songs in my library

Question

Hoping someone can help.
I had about 600 songs on my iTunes and iPod.
I just spent about 4 hours downloading about another 200 songs, then I updated my iPod. Now there are exclamations points in front of some songs and it seems to be whole albums. I looked a little and some are new stuff I just downloaded and some are on songs that have been in both my iTunes and iPod for quite awhile.
I tried right clicking on it, using help, etc. and cannot seem to find what that means.
Is this something I should be concerned about??
Thanks!
Also, one other thing. I downloaded a full album but chose only certain songs for putting on the iPod. I unchecked the songs I didn't want to put on the iPod and it put them on anyway. More of a frustration than anything else, but if anyone has any thoughts on that, I'd appreciate it.
Message was edited by: Melissas92

Answer 1

Melissas92,
By moving the music and artist files and folders around outside of iTunes you have destroyed the links that iTunes had with these files. Remember iTunes is simply a jukebox or database of music files. You click a link to play a file and it goes to the place where it believes the file was stored, and activates/plays it.
Some tracks, whether purchased or not, have been determined by somebody to be "compilations", and so that is how they are sorted in the file folders rather than the traditional artist>album>song. My hind site suggestion is to always edit the track info to undo this. Simply highlight the tracks, click command+i and down in the bottom left should be an option for complilations (select No) and this will move the files under the artist folders rather than the compilation folder. iTunes does all the work for you and no links are broken (I don't know where this compilation check box is when you select only one song).
To fix your current problem one of the following should work:
1. Move all the files back to compilations, quit iTunes and reopen
2. click cmd+i on each individual track with a problem and it will ask you to locate the file. Direct it to the new place you've filed it to, this will recreate the link.
3. try and delete the song in iTunes and the drag and drop the track file back into iTunes. The you may need to go through the uncompilation process one more time.
Good luck, tell me how it goes.