ITunes crash on music folder import

Did an erase & reinstall on my G5. Saved music files (iTunes Music) on external drive. Dragging and dropping that music files folder (iTunes Music) into a newly installed, updated & empty iTunes library tab. Copying of files executes until approx 50% finished then iTunes crashes. Repeated three times same result.

If it's only a problem on your account, it could be a corrupted 'CD Info.cidb' file.
Locate it in ~Users/YourUsername/Library/Preferences and drag it to the desktop.
Run iTunes and try again.
More info about this file in this article.
Hope this helps.
M
17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) Several ext. HD (backup and data)

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Im having exactly the same problem except that:
- It took more than 10 times to just install itunes without crashing or errors.
- Itunes crashes each time I attempt to import a music folder.
- My Windows XP computer freezes completely the moment my ipod video is connected, both when connected while pc is still off and while it is on.
I've read through the suggestions on the apple site and uninstalled and reinstalled countless times. If someone has some advice please share it with me.
Thanks,
Alex

You'll probably have better luck asking the question here -> Windows EightForums
iTunes isn't designed to work with Windows 8 or any beta software, so theres no suprise that it isn't working as expected.

ITunes crashes whenever "Add folder" option is used.REALLY IRRITATING.Help?

Whenever I go to the "Add Folder" option in iTunes, it crashes out and has to be ended. Also, some songs don't even show up in iTunes and it's really obnoxious. My entire collection is mp3 format, and winamp (which I actually use as a player) sees them all just fine. iTunes is missing about 10 songs though out of my total. And as I try to fix it and add a folder, it crashes out.
Also, when adding all my music at once (say if I was reloading my entire Library to my iPod for whatever reason) it only recognizes about... 3/4 of the songs in My Music folder (I have subfolders and things).
I didn't have the crashing issue with iTunes 6.
Also again, sometimes my iPod doesn't realize it's not being charged anymore, and it the battery symbol stays on the screen, draining my battery when I'm not using it. Super. Incredbily. Annoying.
Any suggestions would help loads >.<
Thank you.

after I got offline yesterday, I tried drag-drop again, it worked.

How can i move the itunes appdata from music folder to another folder?

I want to get rid of all the database files in my music folder as other applications scan this folder for new music and it takes them forever to scan the itunes folder in the music folder because of all the folders for artwork etc.
i thought that is what the %username%\appdata folder is for?!
the help documents on the apple page just show me how to move my music, which is in the right place, but not the database xml and covers...

Move the iTunes Library elsewhere, launch iTunes with the Shift key held down, and point it there.
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Ok i was using windows 7 before this and it was fine. Then i reformatted my drive and put windows 7 again. Downloaded latest itunes v9 and installed. Copied my entire music library backed up on my external hd and copied it to the music folder under the libraries section. In windows 7 the "my music" folder under user>documents and settings is actually the same as the "music" folder in the libraries on your pc. The music folder in libraries simply can compose of multiple folder so it simply displays all the contents of the "my music" folder and can also include other folders.
Anyhow itunes screw up indexing my library but thats a whole problem of another sort. The main issue is that after it sees my music library and after I have downloaded something it does this. http://img169.imageshack.us/i/65030372.jpg/
In that link as you can see in music under libraries it just leaves all those system and downloaded files.There actually ends up being hundreds after it gets album/song artwork since each artwork picture comes up as a ict2 file.
However if i go to the my music folder in documents and settings it neatly tucks away all those files into their respective folder in itunes media or artworkd, despite the few core library files. http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/5956/55950795.jpg
AT the moment i have deleted all the music in my library. Deleting those system files simply makes itunes no longer see an library. I have tried reinstalling with no avail. Why is it putting everything in folder in my music but not doing the same in music-libraries which is the same identical folder.

This is just a thought, because I've not played with Windows 7, but near the top of your 1st image it says *Music Library, Includes 2 Locations*. I think you're looking at a view there which will display the contents of all possible music storage locations and the contents all of their subfolders, i.e. like a search result box. The other image corrsponds to a regular folder layout. iTunes stores an Album Artwork folder inside the main iTunes folder along with it's main database and a number of other supporting files. These files are required for iTunes to work so you can't just delete them. If you want to look at your media folders the use Windows Explorer to look inside *iTunes\iTunes Media*.
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Hello DenDen281. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
This discussion area is for AirPort networking related items. You may have more luck getting a reply to your questions if you post in the iTunes area.

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Dear apple costumers
I'm a new user of apple product, i recived for my graduation an iPod 30Gb, it's was amazing!
Unfortunately iTunes dosen't work on my pc, it's required my music folder, i try to create a new forlder but nothing happen. On apple site this kind of erorr it's contemplate and i download tweak UI program, but wen i searcing i special forlder to find my music folder to change the location it dosent exist!
Please help me i'm trouly disoriented
Carlo
P.s.
I was calling apple costumer service and they take me on telephone 40 minutes and noting was change

If TweakUI can't see your My Music folder, see this post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1731188&#1731188
Be careful as it involves editing the registry.

Transferring music to new mac air using external drive: next steps after copying iTunes file to music folder?

I've followed instructions to consolidate, copy to external drive, then copy iTunes folder to Music folder on new mac air. so...
1. what do I do with original iTunes folder?
2. how do I get iTunes to read/ingest playlist and songs?

Exactly what steps did you follow?
1. what do I do with original iTunes folder?
It's on your old computer.
What do you want to do with it?
2. how do I get iTunes to read/ingest playlist and songs?
If you copied the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder from old computer to /Music/ on new computer then you simply need to open iTunes.
Since it is the exact same library, everything will be there as it was on old computer.

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Hello,
ITunes seems to hate me because, after purchasing music, my ITunes crashed and I had lost all of my music. Then along with that crash and missing music, my computer then crashed. I need to know If there is anyway of getting that music back, because I really would like it back... If I can't then, thats just not cool. Please help me with this issue, It ***** that your program crapped on me and I lost my money and music...

If you don't have a back-up of your purchases to restore from then I'm sorry to say that the policy on lost purchases is that you have to pay to download them again:
"Once a Product is purchased and you receive the Product, it is your responsibility not to lose, destroy, or damage the Product, and Apple shall be without liability to you in the event of any loss, destruction, or damage." iTunes Store: Purchased content can be downloaded only once
You could try contacting iTunes Store Customer Service and you might be able to persuade them to sanction a second free download. There have been occasional reports in the iTunes forum of this happening, however just be aware that they are not under any obligation to do so. If you click on this link you'll be able to email your query: Customer Service - iTunes Store Support
If you have an iPod that still has any of your purchases on it you'll find details in this article on how to transfer them to the computer: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
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How to back up your media in iTunes
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Didn't really know how to word this but at the bottom of my iTunes it says I have 10,345 songs and it's 45.58 GB
but when I click on the properties of the folder where my library is, it says I have 10,829 files and it's 46.25 GB
where's the discrepancy coming from?

Itunes is only showing you the amount of songs/videos ect. Your music folder has other files like downloaded album art files.

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I have a frustrating problem I can't seem to figure out. I am running iTunes 8.2 on Leopard 10.5.7 on an Intel iMac. I keep my music on an external hard drive connected by firewire 800.
The issue is that all of the new music I have added since 6/2 will not stay in the library. I will add the files which get synced to my iPhone and iPod without difficulty. At a certain point, when I go to sync, I will get the error message "The following songs could not be synced to the iPhone b/c they could not be found." This most recently occurred when I turned my computer on. These files are everything since that date. Nothing particular happened on 6/2. It's just that's the last album it has retained.
When I go to the library, all of the songs added since then have the dreaded ! next to them. The files are missing from my external hard drive, and from the back up of my external hard drive. They are not in the trash. Spotlight does not find them except for the copies in my emusic folder (which is fortunately where most of them came from so I don't have to re rip everything).
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1. Reinstalling iTunes, including deleting some files from the library recommended in a different post (sorry do not remember which-- some plist files).
2. Running Disk Utility to verify and repair the external volume.
3. Reimporting the music and changing some metadata.
This has occurred with files I have ripped, purchased from the iTunes store, and imported from mp3s on my hard drive. It is incredibly annoying. Please help!
2. Reimporting the songs

Hey Georgia
The first link below will get you iTunes downloaded to your computer. Check your purchase history to download any previous purchase and the second article will assist with that. The final actable will assist with transferring any purchased content from your iPhone to your MacBook Air, anything that was not purchased will not transfer.
iTunes 11.1.2
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1614
Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848
Regards,
-Norm G.

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My Mac Mini crashes whenever I try to access anything but music from the iMusic store. I can play song previews fine. However, once I try to access video or podcasts, iMusic will crash. iMusic then continues to crash as soon as the music store is connected. If I remove my iTunes Library and iTunes Music Library.xml files it reverts to the original symptoms.
iTunes always crashes at the same exact traceback statement,
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PID: 4320
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x7636d08c
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ATS 0x9029b130 MorphTableGetSubtableInfo + 20
1 ATS 0x9029af98 ProcessSingleMorphRun + 104
2 ATS 0x9029ae18 ProcessMorphActionList + 184
3 ATS 0x9029a918 ProcessMorxecutorRun + 220
4 ATS 0x9029a198 ApplyMorph + 172
I have the following subsystems installed
Binary Images Description:
0x1000 - 0x6fffff com.apple.iTunes 6.0.4 /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
0xe9d000 - 0xf06fff com.apple.AppleIntermediateCodec 1.0.1 (124) /Library/QuickTime/AppleIntermediateCodec.component/Contents/MacOS/AppleInterme diateCodec
0xf1b000 - 0xf94fff com.apple.applepixletvideo 1.2.5 (1.2d5) /System/Library/QuickTime/ApplePixletVideo.component/Contents/MacOS/ApplePixlet Video
0x1808000 - 0x19e3fff net.telestream.wmv.import 2.0.2.10 /Library/QuickTime/Flip4Mac WMV Import.component/Contents/MacOS/Flip4Mac WMV Import
0x30c9000 - 0x30cafff com.apple.aoa.halplugin 2.5.6 (2.5.6b5) /System/Library/Extensions/IOAudioFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AOAHALPlugin.bun dle/Contents/MacOS/AOAHALPlugin
0x4ce5000 - 0x4dc4fff com.apple.audio.codecs.Components 1.4.3 /System/Library/Components/AudioCodecs.component/Contents/MacOS/AudioCodecs
0x5799000 - 0x579bfff com.apple.textencoding.unicode 2.0 /System/Library/TextEncodings/Unicode Encodings.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Unicode Encodings
0x583d000 - 0x5843fff com.apple.DictionaryServiceComponent 1.0.0 /System/Library/Components/DictionaryService.component/Contents/MacOS/Dictionar yService
0x8fd50000 - 0x8fd8dfff com.apple.QuickTimeFireWireDV.component 7.1.1 /System/Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeFireWireDV.component/Contents/MacOS/QuickTim e .....
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mac powerPC mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)
mac powerPC mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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ITunes Crashed, am trying to import songs purchased from iTunes from burned

My girlfriend just became an iPod Covert and while she was busy making custom playlists for an upcoming party, her system crashed.
She purchased several songs from the Store, and burned them to a CD. Now when she is trying to rebuild her iTunes Library, iTunes will not import her previously purchased songs.
What is the method for getting the songs back into the Library?

Well if it is an audio CD, then the purchased songs have actually...lost there protection. If you using iTUnes to import the CD you can goto edit>preferences>advanced tab>Import subtab and change the import settings from AAC to MP3, this shouldn't be whats causing the issue tho.
If you have all that set up and you try to import the CD, when you put the CD in it should show up in iTUnes as "Track 1" "Track 2" ect ect because its a personally created CD so iTUnes won't have any info to pull up about it over the net like it would if you put in a store bought CD. If you put the CD in and it shows the track names tho, one of the 2 has happened, either its actually a DATA/MP3 cd or the CD has been put in and someone as manually entered in all the info about each track

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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
The external drive must be formatted in "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)", exFAT or FAT32, because OS X can't write in NTFS partitions by default.
As you just want the library on the external drive to make a backup of your library, you can format it in "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" by using Disk Utility > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html (Note that you won't be able to use the external drive with PCs unless you install a special application in them).
Finally, drag your iTunes folder to your external drive

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