Itunes and corrupted metadata
I have a BIG problem. I don't know how it happened, but my itunes librairy is all messed up. Even the songs in the folders are messed up. I have iTunes match and now even it is messed up.
Is there a way to revert the itunes match "match"? Is there a way to clean up the floders or the metadata?
Thank you for your help.
Sorry for the lack of details.
Basicaly, I think that my itunes librairy has been corrupted and because I have check to let itunes to organize my folders in the folder iTunes Media, Itunes has reorganize my songs in the music folder. I have attach a picture. I'm in the Arcade fire folder and you can see that it has other songs in that folder. I have about 5500 songs. I'm looking for a way to reorganize the songs in albums folder.
If I could return in a past library in iTunes match, I would redownload the songs.
Let say I have a folder
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