Incomplete Albums

My hard drive recently crashed. Luckily, I was able to restore my library because I had backed it up a few days earlier. I noticed today that although I have most of my music, there are several albums that are missing tracks. Is there an easy way to find what albums are missing songs, and which songs they are missing?

jere7my wrote:
Some artists or companies don't want to sell the most popular tracks from their albums, in hopes that people will buy the CD (which is more profitable for them).
Well that's a shame
Especially when only like 1 or 2 songs are missing. I guess I'll have to go CD shopping.

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Why does my music from one album show up as two separate albums: one with all the songs in it, and another with two or three. Why is it that when i delete the incomplete album it takes the same songs out of the complete album also?

When I first imported music from my CDs onto my iTunes library, all the songs appeared, but those with the album artist and guest/additional artists they appeared in their own album under the same album name. After searching through iTunes help and support, I learned how to put all the songs under the same album (part of a compalition) and add the additional songs information, artwork, lyrics, etc. After getting all the music (imported from my CDs) onto the iTunes library and in their album. I synced my music onto my iPhone. (My iPhone is a 3GS)
Once the music was on my iPhone i noticed that the albums appeared in 2s again. One was the complete album with all the songs, song info, etc. together (solo tracks and/or one with multiple artists) and another album of the same name, artwork, etc. with 2-4 of the songs from that album. Since all I saw need for was to have the completed album on my iPhone, I deleted the album with only 2-4 of the songs. When I went back and selected the completed album, all the songs I had deleted from the incomplete album were also deleted from the completed album too! I just couldn't figure out why it did that and my my friends with iPods and iPhones said they didn't know what caused it either. So now I'm here with the idea how to fix this problem.
If anyone has a solution to this problem, please reply. It will be greatly appreciated.

I'm not sure why this happens, but I found a workaround. Below the album title it will list the artist(s). The issue seems to happen when there are multiple artists. For example, an Album titled "Over the Sea to Skye" has The Chieftains and James Galway as artists. Some tracks (for whatever reason) will list only one of these and result in the playlist showing what appears to be multiple albums. You can click on the artists and it will highlight. Paste in what is appearing on the other "albums" and it will then show as one:
Hope that is somewhat clear enough to help. Doesn't fix whatever the issue is but it is a workaround. For me this is only happening with CD's that I have imported.

Incomplete album with 'complete album' price in the store

In the iTunes store, there is an incomplete album, that is, with only tracks 2,4, and 5 of a 5-song EP. If I buy the entire album, it is $5, but it doesn't appear that the other 2 tracks are available. Specifically, I am referring to Prairie Cartel EP 2 by Prairie Cartel. What is the deal with this? If I pay for the $5, I don't want to only get 3 songs if I could just buy them individually. Is there someone I can talk to at iTunes who would refund me or explain what is going on? Thanks!

Looks like an error in the store. You can ask about it here: http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/browser/

4 of the songs on a recently purchased album do not appear on my computer. I bought the album on my phone, and all of the songs are accounted for there, but on my computer it shows as an incomplete album and ITunes wants me to buy the missing songs?

I recently purchased Slipknot's ".5: The Gray Chapter" on my phone via an ITunes gift card worth $15 dollars. The album did have some trouble downloading because of a bad signal, and a good number of songs "could not be downloaded at this time". To download the missing songs, I had to go into ITunes store>more>purchased>music>all songs and click download on the few that didn't. This fixed that problem, and now the entire album is on my phone, but when the album transferred over to my computer, 4 of the songs still did not appear. Not only that, it says that they have not been purchased. The ITunes card I used only has a dollor left on it, so I know it registered the purchase. The 10th, 14th, 15th, and 16th tracks still have $1.29 next to them, and ITunes is showing the album as an incomplete.

We are having this same issue. We have over 200 songs that are now missing and only our most recent ones show up in our ITunes library. Fortunately we have one phone that still has all of our music still in tact. This phone is no longer one I will be using as I upgraded to the Iphone 6, and only the most recent purchased songs remain. The rest are no where to be found and the iTunes store shows that I would need to re-purchase. Not sure what to do as when I tried to sync my last phone, all the songs were gone.

Missing/Incomplete Album Art

So i downloaded a couple of songs (each from different artists) and the album art for one song is incomplete and the album art for the other song is completely missing. I have tried syncing my phone again, turning it on and off and nothing has worked. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do?

it didn't work

I have incomplete album in my iTunes but payed for full.

I got it a while ago but just recently got an iPhone and been downloading the music to it and every other song i got is avalible but my Toots album is just 5 of the 20 songs...

It says   at the top      under Redeem after I touched that:
          $14.73
Account: [email protected]   (my account name)
Enter your Gift Card or Download Coad

HT1849 How do I transfer a single song that I purchased into my complete my album so I can have the complete album and not an incomplete album missing the single.

How do I transfer a single that I bought previously before purchasing the complete my album so that I have the complete album and not missing the single?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Not sure what you mean by transfer. I suspect you are trying to get it listed in iTunes as part of the album, in which case you can change the details in 'Get Info'.

Find incomplete albums

Hello peers,
I have an irritating problem.
How it happened isn't so relevant. But when i put all my music BACK unto my ipod, many albums where missing tracks.
- my library is immaculate with tags, artwork, and NUMBERING!
Is there anyway, that i can get a list, playlist, or any kind of consolidation process that will show me which albums are missing tracks?
Ive scoured the net, and checked doug's apple scripts.
if you know of any application, or maybe i didnt use the correct wording in my google searches, please let me know!
Any help/ comment/ advice/ opinion are appreciated.
- Ynnon

jere7my wrote:
Some artists or companies don't want to sell the most popular tracks from their albums, in hopes that people will buy the CD (which is more profitable for them).
Well that's a shame
Especially when only like 1 or 2 songs are missing. I guess I'll have to go CD shopping.

HT1473 incomplete album import

So when I import my CD in to itunes it automatically separates out the songs that have featured artists. How can I get these songs to show up on the album and not as separate single songs?

Hello, lunarider75.
The following article may be useful in your situation:
iTunes 11 for Mac: Import songs from CDs
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12278
Specifically the section titled, "Join CD tracks."
Join CD tracks
When you import songs from a CD into iTunes, you can group songs so they always play together (even when you’re shuffling songs).
Insert an audio CD into your computer’s CD or DVD drive, and click No in the window that appears.
When the songs on the CD appear in the iTunes window, hold down the Shift key to select the ones you want to join.
Click near the top-right of the iTunes window, and choose Join CD Tracks.
Hope this helps,
Allen

Incomplete albums when manually manage iPhone 4s music

Hi Guys,
I just got an iPhone 4s
I manually manage all my iTunes music.
I've just noticed that when I drag and drop albums onto my 4s from iTunes (connected via USB) they appear to be copying, but when I check my iphone it appears some albums only have 2 or 3 tracks and the others are missing.
This never happened on my iPhone 4.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance

Sounds like you've got exactly the same problem as me I've only noticed today, seemed to be fine yday
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3867449?tstart=0

Music Displaying Scrambled/Incomplete Album List from Shared Library

Since upgrading,the Music App is displaying just 50 out of 260 Albums that I access via a shared Itunes Library on my Laptop. The Artists names and artwork are all random as well and don't match. One of the albums is even displaying the artwork from a video in my shared itunes video library.
Anybody else having similar issues (just want to know that its an Apple bug and not something corrupted at my end).
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I have exactly the same issue - in the remote app for airplay - all are present and correct - however on the iTunes app on my phone and iPad - if access my media library - 80% of the library is missing and of those that show up the album artwork doesn't match the album name/artist and when you select an album a completely different album is displayed!!
This behaviour is the same on my iPhone 4S and ipad2 both running iOS 6
Tried rolling back iTunes 10.7 from 11.0 - no diferent ....thinks its an iOS 6 issue.
Apple need to get their act together - ios6 is rubbish and killed my 3GS and iTunes 11 is dire

Defective Song Tracks Since iTunes 10.5 (also, recently purchased songs/albums are not showing up in purchased area for redownload purposes)

Last night I purchased the new Coldplay album from the iTunes store on my PC (as opposed to the iPad or iPhone). 2 of the 14 song files are defective (my bad ones are tracks 2 and 3). Those two play music for about the first 20 or 30 seconds of the track and then skip immediately to the next track. I had the same problem last week with two other albums I purchased from the iTunes store (also on my PC like last night). In those cases, I simply went to the "Purchased" quick link area and found everything I had just purchased. I deleted the defective files and then redownloaded them without a hitch. The replaced files now play fine.
However, the Coldplay album does not show up in my "Purchased" section (not last night or this morning when I rechecked). I am unable to redownload the defective files. I am doubly disturbed by this. For one, I have never had defective music downloads up until iTunes 10.5 and now I've had them on the three albums I've downloaded since. Two, now the "redownload music from the iCloud" function is not working for the most recent purchases. Perhaps this is true of all music purchased from iTunes over the past few days for everybody? Most people are probably mentioning Coldplay here on the boards because it's the hot new album. Note that this apparently is not affecting iOS apps, because my recent (within 24 hours) apps do show up in the purchased area.
It's very frustrating, because I want to sync this new Coldplay album with my iPhone so I can listen to it and I hate to have to transfer an incomplete album to it. My OCD-like nature gets to me sometimes. Part of me wants to just repurchase the two defective song files and hope that Apple won't charge me twice.

LOL!!! I had checked iTunes before writing this and the music was not there. I check after writing and now it has shown up. It took iTunes about 12 hours to do it though.
Last week, the music I purchased showed up immediately.
I guess iTunes is just not working as effeciently as it did last week. Could still be a bug or maybe just swamped servers? However, the problem that is most annoying to me right now is that all the music I have downloaded since iTunes 10.5 has contained defective tracks that needed to be redownloaded. I do not recall that ever occuring before.

I got a new computer, told it library was on external hd, no problem. A lot of artwork was missing though (NOT manual artwork, only previous artwork I'd asked itunes to find). I ran 'get artwork' but it's only asigned artwork to the1st song in each album

So, I got a new computer. As my itunes library has gone through a few in its time, it lives permanently on my external hard drive, as this generally makes moving to new computers hassle free. I told my freshly intsalled itunes on my new computer where to find the library and it got all my songs, movies etc no problem. However, some albums were missing artwork (NOT any of the albums I had ever manually added artwork to, thank god, these all seemed to be intact, jut ones where itunes had previously got artwork for me). I asked itunes to get missing artwork, as is par for the course. This it did, but it has only installed artwork for one song per album (generally the first song, or the lowest numbered track for incomplete albums, as far as I can tell).
It does not acknowledge these songs as missing artwork when I create a smart playlist but, erm, they are - the artwork doesn't show up on the display in the bottom LH corner or in the info tab. WHY? When I've added new albums 'get artwork' has always added artwork for EACH song on the album in every previous itunes I've ever had. I don't get it at all.
I appreciate it might be irreperably messed up, but please don't reply with any manual adding solutions. I have over 25,000 songs in my library and to go through and manually ask itunes to add artwork to each song (apart from the first on the album which already has it) would take SO LONG it makes me want to die inside.
I can't find anything else on this. Other people have had issues with itunes match and devices, but these songs don't even have artwork on itunes, let alone on my ipod, iphone etc.

Well my first guess was wrong. The line that failed is the one that writes out the image to disk. I've not revisited the code for that script for ages, but it seems I did add in an extra test for missing files a little while later, then forgot to upload the change. I can reproduce the error message if I deliberately rename a file to confuse iTunes so that seems the most likely reason for your problem with the script. I've uploaded a new build of CreateFolderArt which should work better.
See FindTracks for a tool to repair broken links. You should probably get that issue fixed first.
I know what SPSS stands for but that is all I know about it.
tt2

How to show only complete albums in Albums view NOT singles?

I will try to explain this sa simple as I can:
- In albums view I ONLY want my completed albums listed.
- I tried to rename the album title of all my singles or songs with incomplete albums as "singles/incomplete albums" but they are still listed individually by artists under albums. So instead of one album names "singles.." there are hundreds with that name, just as before, one big hodgepodge of albums.
- I just want all my full albums (500 or so) listed nice and neat NOT like 2000 albums listed.
- To have my albums nice and sorted I have always had to make an individual playlist for eah album, under a folder called "albums". I figured by iTunes 11 I would be able to have only my full albums listed in one place AND be able to use the new slick looking interface.
Thanks!

- I tried to rename the album title of all my singles or songs with incomplete albums as "singles/incomplete albums"
Then you have already done the hard part. Now, just make a smart playlist with the rule "Album" "does not contain" "incomplete". Go into that smart playlist and switch to Album view.

Urgh...wrong album cover art...how do I take it off

I have?a Zen Vision M, 30gb, and I have a problem removing unwanted cover art. I suppose it's not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things...the songs play, and they're where their supposed to be. But I find this HELLA annoying
!!! Since I've transferred a great deal of my CD collection into it, I like to organize things (and search) by album. But since I also have a lot of random songs that I have downloaded from various places, and I don't want a whole bunch of incomplete "albums" to search through, I filed them into an "album" tagged "Miscellaneous."? So last night I'm?making new tags and reorganizing some files, and when I unplug my Zen from the computer, I go into my "Miscellaneous" and see that?ALL the songs now have the cover art?from ONE of the songs in that folder. What's even stranger is that that specific?cover art doesn't even show in Windows Media Player, so I have NO idea how it became attached with all my miscellaneous songs. To top it off, I transferred some CD's into my Zen who's cover art DID show, but it doesn't come up in my Zen. To that I say "whatever"... I'd like to have the cover art, but I can li've without it. But to have the WRONG cover art for?A LOT of my songs just makes me?incredibly aggrevated!? So what can I do to remove the unwanted cover art?
Oh, and I should point out that I got my Zen when it'sfirst came out, so I have like the oldest MediaSource Organizer that doesn't support cover art.

I don't own a Vision M, but I know how my other players from Creative work. They use the ID3 tags in each track for artist, album art, etc. I use media monkey to tag all the tracks on my computer before I transfer them to the player. Here's the bad news. In my experience, you will have to remove the tracks from the player and throw them back on once they are tagged properly. I know of no way to change the tags on the players themselves. Eric

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