ITunes Keeps Creating Damaged Playlists

Every time I start iTunes, iTunes imports some of my songs and then creates a DAMAGED ITUNES file. This happens everytime. I'm running OS X 10.5 and I already did a reinstall of it.

As painful as it sounds, the only way I could find to fix it was to restore my phone from scratch. Nope, restoring from a recent backup doesn't work. You have to restore to factory settings and re-load everything many again. It worked fine for me and I haven't had a problem since. If you're going to do this, I'll warn you that you will lose everything. If you want to keep your pictures, movies, music, ect, sync it all to your computer so you can reload it manually. Also link your notes, contacts, and calendars to an email address so you can retrieve them later. Things like your texts and App data will be completely gone. So any apps that dont save app data on their own servers will be completely reset from the beginning. Game center doesn't restore data.
Other than that, reset your phone, link it to your Apple ID, setup as new iPhone, and manually load the music, movies, apps, pictures, and all that fun stuff that you'd like to have back on your phone. Tweak the settings back to how they were, and with the exception of some missing texts and constant music library that doesn't delete itself, you shouldn't really notice a difference. Believe me, as long as you're ok with losing the texts and some app data, restoring the phone is completely worth not having to hassle with restoring the music a few times a week.

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HT1473 I have a large external collection and would like to import a select folder to itunes to create a playlist. Is there a way to import the folder without mixing the contents with my large itunes library?

I have a large external collection and would like to import a select folder to itunes to create a playlist. Is there a way to import the folder without mixing the contents with my large itunes library?
I'm trying to avoid having to fish through the thousands of songs already in my itunes library to create a playlist from the songs in the windows file that I've already selected.

You're welcome.
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Itunes keeps creating a new itunes directory in the wrong place!

i'm pulling out my hair trying to solve this problem!
in preferences, i have G:/iTunes selected as my itunes media folder.
also, i have itunes organizing this folder. most of my media is in there.
however, itunes keeps making a directory in C:/Users/Admin/Music/iTunes.
i don't want it to do this.
i just want everything itunes-related on my G drive.
i keep deleting that directory (which deletes all of my playlists)
and when i go to reimport my playlists from the G drive, itunes starts saving stuff on the C drive again.
why is it making 2 itunes media folders?
how do i make it do what i want it to do???
help please!

Caution is a wise move. Here is the standard layout of the itunes folders.
In this layout you can happily move the whole iTunes folder to a new path or drive and use the SHIFT-launch iTunes method to open the library in the new location. iTunes will use relative links from the location of the library to access each file. The steps I gave above should allow you to rebuild this standard layout on your G: drive in a way that keeps iTunes happy - ie. when you are finished it should work, whereas if you just move everything around and fire up iTunes without the intermediate steps it is likely to be completely broken.
Note that *Step 1* is to copy the contents of the C:...iTunes folder to the root of drive G: This will place the *libray files* (the stuff outside the red box) in the correct relative location to your *media content* (the stuff inside the red box). The subsequent stages should get you to the point where the library is called iTunes instead of G:\ and your media is at *G:\iTunes\iTunes Media*. When you are happy the everything works via drive G: (and hopefully after taking a backup) you can delete the old iTunes folder in drive C:.
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ITunes keeps saying damaged library

Dunno whats happened but everytime now when i connect my ipod video itunes always pop up with an error message before it opens saying something along the lines of 'itunes library is damaged, do you want to replace this file' or something like that, and everytime it will make a new .itl file in my iTunes folder.
Anyone know whats causing this or what i can do to stop it happening? any help appreciated.

Have you tried the procedure here?
How to recreate your iTunes Library
If not, that might do the job for you.
Regards.

Itunes keeps creating a second album file

Using iTunes on my desktop to listen to my albums but this happens with nearly every album I play. iTunes creates a second file with the album artwork and moves the track I have just listened to into the new file, but leaves either the first or last track, meaning for each album I end up with two files. So I either have to delete the whole and upload it again (the same prob eventually happens again anyway) or just put up with having to jump between files if I listen to an album! Anyone have any ideas what on earth is happening, it is getting quite annoying now! Also I cant update iTunes as it crashes my desktop every single time (brand new, very powerful desktop).

Caution is a wise move. Here is the standard layout of the itunes folders.
In this layout you can happily move the whole iTunes folder to a new path or drive and use the SHIFT-launch iTunes method to open the library in the new location. iTunes will use relative links from the location of the library to access each file. The steps I gave above should allow you to rebuild this standard layout on your G: drive in a way that keeps iTunes happy - ie. when you are finished it should work, whereas if you just move everything around and fire up iTunes without the intermediate steps it is likely to be completely broken.
Note that *Step 1* is to copy the contents of the C:...iTunes folder to the root of drive G: This will place the *libray files* (the stuff outside the red box) in the correct relative location to your *media content* (the stuff inside the red box). The subsequent stages should get you to the point where the library is called iTunes instead of G:\ and your media is at *G:\iTunes\iTunes Media*. When you are happy the everything works via drive G: (and hopefully after taking a backup) you can delete the old iTunes folder in drive C:.
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Using itunes to create interval playlist in 2nd gen shuffle

Hi all,
I would like to create an interval-playlist in my 2nd generation SHUFFLE by inserting a DING or some such audible to know when the pace changes.
I believe there is a script that will work on the existing playlist and create the intervals - found at this link -
__http://www.active.com/donate/tntntx/jeffwelch__
i have heard a lot of references to this gentleman and this piece of code but the link above is broken.
can someone please help??

This isn't exactly what you wanted as that would be difficult to do exactly how you want it. But here are some suggestions for something similar.
Make a smart playlist with the following rules:
- Playlist is the playlist you have built with the 1100 songs
- Last Played is not in the last 4 days.
Use this new smart playlist to fill your iPod shuffle.
This will not removed every song, just those that have been played on your shuffle since the last time you connected if (if it was more than 4 days) or those that have been played in iTunes (or other iPod) in the last 4 days.
Or if you want have it cycle through the songs in that playlist create a smart playlist which has the rule: playlist is your original playlist, but this time limit it to 1 GB of the least recently played songs. This will definitely cycle through the songs if you play all of them on your iPod shuffle before connecting it to iTunes each time.
Tip: while the shuffle is still connected to your computer, have iTunes display the contents of the shuffle, then select Print from the File menu and print a song list (either to PDF or paper). You will have a list of all the songs on your iPod that you can refer to whenever you want to. I find it quite handy.

ITunes keep create lots of random files

I noticed my computer (iMac on 10.6.4) has lots of strange files on root folder of Macintosh HD. They are files with random names such as "%A1p%E1%8F", "~+%F8%85%C7u", the content of files are XML with something like "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"><plist version="1.0"><dict><key>DeviceCertificate</key>.."
I realized they were only created when iTunes 10 (10.0.1 (22)) is opened and they were just keep adding as long as it is opened. No such files is created if i shutdown iTunes. The files is not removed by iTunes itself.
What should i do to prevent them from building? they are really annoying and i'm worry something wrong on iTunes.

I'm having the same issue. Except mine is putting files in a lot more places than just "/" and I'm having a hard time finding them all. I even had a Xcode project for work that got inundated with these files and it took me over an hour to safely clear them out. Most recently I had over 1,000 in my root directory and when I tried clearing them out Finder got stuck crashing and relaunching over and over again, I ended up having to log in a root to remove the files with terminal before Finder would stop crashing every time I logged in.
Just thought I would share, has anyone had any luck figuring this out? I like iTunes 10 but it looks like I'm going back to 9 for the time being.

ITunes keeps clearing library + playlists every time I open it. HELP!

This problem just arose yesterday, and I still can't figure out why. Every time I close iTunes and reopen it for any reason, my entire library is gone, as are my playlists. I have to manually import all of my songs back in and it's a real pain in the ***, especially since I have to do it AGAIN the next time I open iTunes. At first I thought it was just a problem with the program, so I completely uninstalled it and reinstalled iTunes 9. Same problem. I can re-import my entire library and reconstruct all of my playlists, but the second I close the program and then open it again, it's all gone again. This has to have happened to someone else, and I'm sure the answer is looking me in the face. Can somebody please help me?
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Yes, many Vaio owners have seen this exact problem. There is some Sony media management software often preinstalled on Vaio systems that causes a conflict with iTunes saving its library database file. Why it just triggered I can't say, but it is a common issue.
See this Apple support article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2715
and Redkeefy's post in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8537277#8537277
Regards.

ITunes keeps creating a new iTunes Library instead of going to my actual iTunes Library on my external drive.

My old computer died.
Luckily, my iTunes library is stored on an external drive.
My new machine is Windows 8 and my old machine was Vista, but I don't think that should cause any problem.
When I run iTunes, it comes up like a fresh install on a new machine... every time. By default, it creates an iTunes folder in my local drive and as such, has no music in and is a 100% blank slate.
When I point it to my external drive, and then import the library, it does it. All my music shows up -- after a long time, but it all shows up.
If I shut down iTunes or reboot, everything goes back to zero again.
The most disturbing thing about this is that I can't back up properly, because -- although in Preferences it's pointed at my external drive -- it's backing up my iPhone 5 to the local drive in Windows.
Any idea what's going on here?
I've gone through this process 5 times already and it's always the same.

There are two main components to the iTunes library. The media folder which you can adjust via Edit > Preferences > Advanced, and the database file iTunes Library.itl which is normally found in <User's Music>\iTunes. You can choose or create a new iTunes library by holding down shift as you launch iTunes.
In some cases third party software can interfere with the way iTunes updates its files meaning that either iTunes forgets the previously chosen location, or that the active database is deleted. AVG anti-virus and Sony VIAO Entertainment Platform typically interfere with the database. McAfee has been implicated in the corruption of iTunesPrefs.plist.
See Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash for more details on how you might recover after the library vanishes.
You may get some improvment by hosting your entire library on the external drive not just the media. E.g. Create a library at X:\iTunes where X: is the drive letter, then move the media into X:\iTunes\iTunes Media before adding it to the library. This will make it easier to backup the library to a second drive and move it between computers when the time comes.
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ITunes keeps creating a new folder called "Music".

Hello. This is really bothering me.
I have my music stored on a server in a folder called "Music". All of the meta data etc is perfect as i went through every track and edited them as needs be. After doing a fresh install on my Mac, i draged n dropped the contents of the "Music" folder into iTunes where it all imports with absolutly no problems (i had iTunes set to NOT edit track names etc with the location i'm dragging from set to my iTunes media directory). Once everything was back in iTunes, i rechecked the box that allows iTunes to organise and edit files again. As soon as a check that box iTunes decides to randomly move some artists into a new "Music" folder located inside the "Music" folder that i created (/Volumes/Media/Music/Music/).
Why is this happening? I see no reason why iTunes should move only some artists into a seperate folder with the same name as the parent folder i created.
Cany anyone help? My OCD is going mental haha.
Thanks,
Chris.

Hello.
If i set the location to /Volumes/Media/ it does not creat the "Music" folder and it put's all of the artist folders under /Volumes/Media/.
Are there any settings i can refresh or something?
I've tried deleteing my library and re-importing countless times now. I noticed that tracks/artists/albums are moved to the second "Music" folder once i play them in iTunes. I want iTunes to rename the files and stuff, this is how i got all of the metadata right in the first place, but why is it creating another "Music" folder? And why doesn't it do it if i set the location to /Volumes/Media/? I've never had this problem before with the exact same set up and media.
Can someone please explain how to start from scratch incase i did something wrong along the way which is causeing this issue?
Cheers,
Chris.

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I've got 130gb's of music and honestly don't feel like going in each folder to delete my m3u file. It's never done this on an import before so I'm guessing its because of the update. So now I get 60+ playlist on the side and I'm not even to letter L. What is the work around aside from downgrading my itunes?

obrien247 wrote:
....There should at least be an option to not select m3u's
However there isn't. You'll need to change you workflow. I suggest you either delete all the m3u files or use iTunes Folder Watch.
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