Itunes loses my songs

Why does itunes lose my songs? they appear one minute but gone the next? I have organize my songs enabled and copy files to folder. I have the latest version of itunes.

Glenn, there is a huge difference between the music no longer showing up in the iTunes library and the music actually being deleted from your computer. Could you do a search and confirm that the music you have labeled "deleted" is actually no longer on your hard drive? Use Windows' search function to locate music files, and either look for specific ones (if you know the file name) or for the format (.mp3, .m4a, etc.).
Just because iTunes can't see the music anymore doesn't necessarily mean it has been removed from your hard drive

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Backing up my iphone - onto new computer - so I lose all songs I did not purchase on itunes? If I copied CDs into itunes on an old computer that I don't have access to anymore and I upgrade my software to 5.0 I lose anything not on the new computer itune?

So my home computer decided to quit... I am trying to start using my work computer more now. I have itunes with a library of only 150 songs. My iphone has over 550 songs. Even after I sync my phone to my new computer and mark items purchased to be sync it doesn't increase on itunes. I know I've purchased songs on my iphone so that is my first problem...
Next, at home I copied CDs onto itunes which I sync'd onto my iphone. Am I right that I will lose all these songs now when I update my software?
To summarize:
I have no way to back up songs that were not purchased on itunes?
How do I sync my iphone purchases into itunes correctly (since it isn't working now)
Will I lose content from my iphone, if it doesn't show up on itunes before I update my software to 5.0?
Am I making sense?

iOS 6.1.3 Software Update
iOS: How to update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Since your updating from iOS 4 to iOS 6, you will most likely lose your songs, but if songs were purchased from iTunes, you can try this:
Downloading past purchases from App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
You can redownload from iTunes on your iTouch, if running iOS 5 or better.

Will i lose my songs and pictures if i upgrade my iphone to the 5.0 version if this isn't the original computer i used when i first got itunes?

Will I lose my songs and pictures if i upgrade my iphone to the 5.0 version if the computer i am going to do it on is not the original computer i had itunes on, my old computer died!

You can back up your Iphone in Itunes on any computer. Then restore after the upgrade if it was erased. iTunes has an option to even pick which backup file you want to use. I believe its pressing the alt key holding it and pressing restore. I did it on a windows pc so might be different. for a big update, apple iOS's are generally good with keeping files, but its always a good idea to back up your device. I just upgraded my MBP to Lion and didnt loose anything.

HT204053 Will I lose my songs in Itunes when I update to 10.6

1. Will I lose my songs in Itunes when I update to 10.6
2. Also, I am unable to sigh in I Cloud to with my Apple ID and password

No, but you should always have a backup just in case something goes wrong, whether or not you are updating anything.

I need to uninstall/reinstall will I lose the songs I didn't purchase through ITunes?

For some reason I am getting a message to uninstall and reinstall ITunes. Not all the songs in my library were purchased at the ITunes store. Will I lose these songs during the uninstall/reinsall process?

no your music files arnt stored in itunes so uninstalling and reinstalling wont delete them.
If anything you might have to locate the files and reopen thim in itunes to put them back in your library. If thats the case...this should help you find your music files to put them back.
Where are my iTunes files located?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391

I recently got a new computer and installed itunes, i connected my ipod and it has some songs that i downloaded legally from my other computer, if i sync my ipod..will i lose the songs downloaded? thanks

yeah please answer the question..i downloaded songs on my other computer and they are on my ipod but do not show up on my itunes because they are not downloaded..will i lose the songs if i sync my ipod?

Yes.
You need to copy everything from your old computer, or your backup copy of your old computer, to your new one.
You can transfer itunes purchases from your ipod: File>transfer Purchases

It appears that my iTunes Library of song just suddenly disappeared from my iTunes. Did I lose it or is someway I don't know?

It appears that my iTunes Library of song just suddenly disappeared from my iTunes. Did I lose it or is someway I don't know?

To double check it wasn't misplaced do a Spotlight search for a few tracks you know exist. Spotlight will usually find them even if the files have obscure names.
If you really, really can't find any of this anywhere then it is possible it is all gone. Normally an update or doing anything with iTunes should not do this, but once or twice a week out of millions of iTunes users we see somebody who has lost a library. In that case you have to restore it from your computer's backup. If you don't have one (why not?) you have to rebuild the library from the sources. You can re-download most media you have purchased from Apple from the Store (not all though).

ICloud on my iphone hasn't been backed up for 2 months because I havnt got enough iCloud space, now I have a new PC if I just log into iTunes will I lose any songs or is it a different iCloud ??x

iCloud on my iphone 5 hasn't been backed up for a while because I've run out of iCloud space. I now have a new PC and wanted to use iTunes on it, if I just log in will I lose some songs or is it a different iCloud thing ??x

Try signing out of iCloud completely. That message shouldn't pop up if you aren't signed into iCloud at all.
Unfortunately I can't, as this would disable the Find My iPhone feature. Or were you suggesting I disable iCloud only temporarily?

Itunes saves my songs in a new file that is not the default setting

My settings for downloading purchased music from itunes is c:\pop\music.
Since a few months itunes generates a 2nd file named "music" within the existing file "music" and downloads all new songs in there. (It just happens, I surely didn´t tamper with the settings.)
So everytime I buy music from the itunes store the new files are now saved under c:\pop\music\music.
Also my ipod now only synchronizes the new files as long as they´re in c:\pop\music\music and not under c:\pop\music where I want to have them to be able to combine them with the others.
I checked under "Information" of the new songs and for each song the setting for the place where it´s (supposed to be) saved under is still c:\pop\music. Also my default settings are still c:\pop\music.
So why does itunes create a new file?????
I can change almost every entry under "Information" but not the storage location.
I don´t know why this happened and how I can change this back. Can anyone help me here, please!

What im trying to say is, i purchased a imac after getting a new phone, which was on windows.
So i now need to sync it so i can enjoy all the easy pleasures of genius so on and so on
However not eveything made the shift over, so now my itunes on phone has songs from my old library, that due to whatever multiverse lays between mac and pc, are now not available on my new smarter and amazing mac.
So if i sync the phone i will lose my songs, yes which did cost me money!! Does anyone know a way to prevent this?
please bare in mind I am Mac simple, quite ******** really
thank you in advance

When switching my iphone to a new apple ID will i lose my songs, apps, and imessages?

i currently share an itunes account with several people and devices. i would like to make my own apple ID. When switching my iphone to the new apple ID will i lose my songs, apps, and/or imessage conversations?

You need a valid/working email address in order to create an account.
Create a NEW account/ID for her using these instructions. Make sure you follow the instructions. Many do not and if you do not you will not get the None option. You must use an email address that you have not used with Apple before. Make sure you specify a birthdate that results in being at least 13 years old
Creating an iTunes Store, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store account without a credit card
More details of how:
http://ipadhelp.com/ipad-help-tips-tricks/how-to-get-free-apps-from-the-app-stor e-without-a-credit-card/
Use the new ID on her iPod but only for:
Settings>Messages>Send and Receive
Settings>FaceTime
Settings>GameCenter
and Settings>iCloud if you want her to have separate Contacts Calendar and some other things.
Continue to use the same/common Apple ID for Settings>iTunes and App stores so you can share purchases.
Note that if yo chaghe acounts in Settings>iTunes and App Store media will NOT be deleted from the ipod but:
- Apps are locked to the account that purchased them.
- To update apps you have to sign into the account that purchased the apps. If you have apps that need updating purchased from more than one account you have to update them one at a time until the remaining apps were purchased from one account.

Im going to lose my songs

I need to know how to move my songs from my ipod to my library. A while ago i cleaned my computer and didn't save the music files on my computer. Now i have them on my ipod and not on my library. Im about to sell my ipod with click wheel but don't want to lose my songs.
20 G ipod w/ click wheel Windows XP Pro

"I need to know how to move my songs from my ipod to my library."
Open iTunes and select edit/preferences/advanced/general. Put a check mark in the box marked "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" and also "keep iTunes music folder organized", then click 'ok'.
Connect the iPod whilst holding down the shift/ctrl keys to prevent any auto sync, and if you see the dialogue window asking if you want to sync to this itunes library, click 'no'.
Then go to file/add folder, open 'my computer', select your iPod and click 'ok'.
The music files should transfer to your iTunes.
However it appears that no playlists or any other info such as ratings/last played etc will transfer.
If this is important to you, you may want to use other options.
There's Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music and playlists etc from iPod back to the computer.

ITunes lose track of music files

Every couple of days iTunes loses track of all the songs stored on my PC. As soon as you open iTunes for any user. all songs you attempt to access cannot be found and the exclamation point appears beside all songs listed in the library.
I have centralized all my song files – about 9400 files - on an internal secondary drive “e:\music\iTunes\iTunes music”. This is set as the default folder for all iTunes users.
I have iTunes v.6.0.4.2 installed for three separate user IDs on a single Dell PC running XP Home Edition. The User IDs and individual iTunes library files – iTunes Library.itl and .xml – are stored in the personal directory – “c:\Documents and Settings\my documents\my music\iTunes – per the defaults when iTunes is installed.
The only way I am able to recover from this is to delete the library files for each user and rebuild the library by going into “file=>add folder to library” and pointing at the iTunes music folder on the ‘e’ drive. I do not lose any music files but this is a very annoying bug which should be fixed. I have looked in the iTunes user forum and many people have experienced similar problems on both PC and Mac environment. None of the suggested fixes on the forum have solved my problem I have also spoken to Apple Support about this problem twice, including a Level 2 support tech. None of them was able to solve this problem.

I have had the same problem. it seems to have stemmed from the upgrade. However, I have over 40 gig of files on an external HD. I was wondering how you reload delete the titles from ITunes and reload them back into ITunes from the external HD. I want to avoid deleting the actual file from the HD; only from ITunes. thoughts?

ITunes loses track of music

iTunes 9.0.1 under SL 10.6.1
How can iTunes lose track of music after I just added an entire folder full of music using the Add to Library command?
I select all my music. Delete all music. Do not move music files to Trash. Select Add to Library. Select the root folder where all of my music is stored. It adds all 18,000+ files. A new list of songs is displayed. As I browse through them, the missing file exclamation points start appearing next to songs. I double-click the missing file, it says it can't locate the song and asks me to help it locate it. I locate it, navigating through the same folder I used above to Add to Library, re-map the missing song. Repeat about 5,000 times.
The songs reside on a secondary hard drive in my MacPro. This is a constant game of cat-and-mouse. After adding a few songs, sometimes iTunes just gets tired and crashes.

If I rename items from within the iTunes interface then iTunes will make the changes and move things accordingly.
Yes, that is what I wrote the box is for.
If I take an item in iTunes and move it in the Finder to the Trash and empty the trash then iTunes will give me the !
And?
That has nohing to do with the Keep box being checked or unchecked.
Uncheck that box then toss a file into the trash and iTunes will still show an exclamation mark.

Itunes deleting purchased songs

For some reason itunes has started to move my purchased (itunes store) songs to my PC recycle bin. I don't know if this is realated but it started happening after I began to download and load more podcasts onto my ipod. Does anyone know what the problem is??

I don't know why Apple defenders make this so complicated. There are literally youtube videos out there of iTunes deleting music/video files. I have had it happen so many times that I stopped using iTunes and Apple's media service all together.
iTunes, not some other windows application as I have seen here, is deleting files. I have seen iTunes crash when trying to open a music/video file and have seen it disappear from an open Finder window. And for the record I have never had Window Media Player ever delete a file from my PC.
I have also noticed my non-purchased music disappearing slowly over time especially each time iTunes loses connection with my NAS, don't ask me how a mac running 24/7 connected to a network via an ethernet cable can lose connection to a NAS that is just an apple thing my Windows machines have no issue, several non-purchased deletions occur.
I think Apple has a serious code issue on their hands, application crashing should never cause data loss, but we will see if they are more interested in defending apple's reputation or taking care of their customers.

ITunes deleting/losing songs

I have read some topics, but they don't appear to apply to my actual problem.
Does iTunes delete unplayed songs? Because it seems like every so often songs I haven't played appear to disappear. And I don't see them in my HD folder. Can anyone help me find them or explain how to stop it?

Hey everyone,
I have noticed the exact same thing as ccpickre above, lots of poeple have posted that itunes has lost track of songs that still exist in the library folder. I still get the "original file could not be found" message and little exclamation mark, but itunes is **** right because I can't find it using spotlight either, its gone from the library!
I don't believe that itunes would delete old songs, not even if your hard disk was full. Ccpickre , have you copied your library from another HD at some point? When I got my new mac I simply copied the library and library file from the old to the new. The songs that are going missing cannot all have been missing since before I copied, though, because more and more are being lost. I also tend only to get the message when I sync my ipod, itunes says "some songs, including xxx could not be copied to your ipod because they could not be found", yet xxx tends to change, indicating that more and more are being lost. All a bit odd
The fact remains, however, that they are all songs I have not played for some time... Much as I'd like not to lose them, I can't be arsed to listen to all 10 days of music just to bring their play counts up to date!! Any other suggestions?!
Cheers,
Tim
i love how apple have censored d-a-m-n in my post, soz to offend anyone, but belive me apple, if i wanted to cuss I have a large repotoire of infinately more entertaining/offensive words!
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