Itunes is being stupid - help!
recently (as is all year) itunes has been telling me it can't locate my music. 60% is in my music folder in my files, and when i locate one from there and then check "use this folder to locate other files" it says it couldn't locate any of my 1500+ songs. and i'd rather not go through all and locate each single one. It also does it to CD's that i have imported. It says i can't find them and the only way it can is to put the cd back in and locate them one by one. This is especially annoying because lots of the cd's i have on my itunes i cant find or dont have anymore. i'll put a new song in there from my downloads, then the next time i open it it will say it can't find it.
No, i have not moved anything. I have deleted a handful of songs from my downloads by accident, but that's only like 5.
i can't sinc lost songs onto my phone or ipod, but if it was already on there it will stay on there luckily.
one of my cd's i still have, and love to bits, but cant put onto my ipod because even if you locate songs from a cd, once you eject it it says lost again! If you want to sinc it onto your device you have to have the cd in.
please help, someone, it's driving my head in!
The easiest solution is to use your backup to restore your iTunes folder to what it was before this happened.
It sounds like your music is not organized in standard iTunes folder structure or it would be able to find others. While you can do that (I have to over 8 years) there are disadvantages.
If you want to sinc it onto your device you have to have the cd in.
Is this you saying this or is this a message your are seeing? I don't know if it is even possible to have a CD listed in iTunes without importing it.
iTunes works by using a database to store information on what you have added and where it is located. It then doesn't actually look at the files until you try to play them. What is important is if the actual files are really missing, or if iTunes simply has lost track of where they are located. You check that by looking in the media folder contents in your iTunes folder.
Since you do not have music in standard folder structure you may have to rebuild your complete iTunes library by making a blank library and re-adding media to it (of course losing playlists, ratings, date added, playcount).
It's remotely possible your whole hard drive is suffering from file corruption which will take a major restore of everything on it.
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