ITunes missing songs
Really frustrated. There seemed to be an update to iTunes when I tried to open it this morning. It says it was installing the .xml file (this was after I double clicked on the iTunes icon on my desktop). I kept getting popups about iTunes U wasn't installed and did I still want to see the items I had there. I said yes and waited... and waited... and waited... eventually iTunes loaded.
All my playlists were gone. Any changes I'd made to song titles/album names adding artwork etc were also gone. This had taken me weeks to do, updating all artwork to the right artwork, making sure tracklistings were correct, remixes were listed properly, tracks were listed by singles/albums/compilations - all gone.
I have an iPod which was last connected about a month ago and an iPhone which I tried to sync over the weekend but it wouldn't add the new music (yes there was plenty of space) or new playlists I wanted, just the apps?!?
I suppose I'm going to have to re-add the entire music folder from my hard-drive? If I do this the edits I've made aren't there. ie all the songs/remixes/album titles etc. When I change an album name ie "The Beatles - Let It Be (UK)" to "The Beatles - Let It Be" to without the UK it doesn't change the file itself and when I get problems like this and re-add stuff I have to go through every single file all over again?!? Is there anyway to prevent this? I have almost 15,000 items to redo.
Michael,
I can answer your first question:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html
Similar Messages
-
ITunes missing songs from iCloud
Hi
I received a new macbook air for christmas and connected it all with my existing appleid. However, I have clicked into iTunes and only 10% of my songs are on there - yet I know they are on the cloud as I have checked iPads and iPhones also connected to the apple id. Why are they missing? Do I need to do iTunes match and pay £21 ? I must be doing something wrong surely.
Any help appreciatedcb200732 wrote:
I received a new macbook air for christmas and connected it all with my existing appleid. However, I have clicked into iTunes and only 10% of my songs are on there - yet I know they are on the cloud as I have checked iPads and iPhones also connected to the apple id. Why are they missing? Do I need to do iTunes match and pay £21 ? I must be doing something wrong surely.
Any help appreciated
Did you copy your entire user folder from old computer to new computer? -
Why is my Itunes missing songs?
I just got a new computer in may and I wanted to move my itunes music and stuff from the old one (That runs Windows XP) to the new one (That runs Windows Vista). But when I installed it and did all the settings it wouldn't find all of my songs (All of my stuff was moved to an external drive by dragging and dropping).Also, I moved all of the .itl and what ever files to the new computer. So now I have not been able to do anything with my ipod and itunes.
That's the problem, then....your old system was telling itunes to look at F:Music and now the music is in E:Music and itunes can't find it (for example, I don't know your actual drive or folder names).
Assign the exHD drive letter to match what you had on the old system.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844 -
apple update erased my playlists, they are no longer showing on my iTunes. I am missing songs that do appear in iTunes and should be on the ipod but are not, and new playlists that I didn't have are now where mine should be. Any suggestions as to getting "MY" ipod back?
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device. -
i have missing songs that i purchased on my old iphone. they are not in my purchased folder. but in itunes store when i look the song up, it has the purchased logo next to it.... but no way to download it
If the songs are still on your ipod, make sure autosync is disabled in iTunes on your computer, connect and right click on it in the device list, then choose "transfer purchases" to copy all bought media and apps from your ipod to your computer.
If the songs are not on your computer and got deleted from your ipod as well, you can't get them back, unless you have a backup of your iTunes library as part of your computer backup. -
I've created playlists with songs I've purchased from iTunes and also added songs I've purchased from iTunes to existing playlists. Everytime I go to sync the playlist to my iPhone I find some of the new songs missing from the playlist. I've deleted the playlist from the phone and reinstalled it. I don't know what I"m doing wrong. Anyone have any idea what could be the problem?
Wondering if you haven't been bitten by the new "feature" of iOS 5, as was my son. turingtest2 explained it very well in reply to my own query about "missing" songs in playlists.
Here's that thread...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16903613#16903613 -
I recently purchased Slipknot's ".5: The Gray Chapter" on my phone via an ITunes gift card worth $15 dollars. The album did have some trouble downloading because of a bad signal, and a good number of songs "could not be downloaded at this time". To download the missing songs, I had to go into ITunes store>more>purchased>music>all songs and click download on the few that didn't. This fixed that problem, and now the entire album is on my phone, but when the album transferred over to my computer, 4 of the songs still did not appear. Not only that, it says that they have not been purchased. The ITunes card I used only has a dollor left on it, so I know it registered the purchase. The 10th, 14th, 15th, and 16th tracks still have $1.29 next to them, and ITunes is showing the album as an incomplete.
We are having this same issue. We have over 200 songs that are now missing and only our most recent ones show up in our ITunes library. Fortunately we have one phone that still has all of our music still in tact. This phone is no longer one I will be using as I upgraded to the Iphone 6, and only the most recent purchased songs remain. The rest are no where to be found and the iTunes store shows that I would need to re-purchase. Not sure what to do as when I tried to sync my last phone, all the songs were gone.
-
ITunes thinks songs are missing when they are NOT...
I've written about this in the past and I thought I had fixed it manually. For some reason a large number of my songs (about 1300) in iTunes are not able to be found on the drive when I try to play them. Once I try to play them I get an error message saying "The song "song name" could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it" and then the "!" symbol shows up next to the song. The songs files ARE there though.
In the past I thought I solved this problem because I "re-added" using all the songs in my library (about 4500) "File->Add To Library". If the song was one of these "missing" songs it was re-added to the library. The songs that were not "missing" were not re-added. (and again, the song files iTunes is re-adding are the exact song files it is saying aren't there in the first place) After the "re-add" I essentially had two of all the missing songs. One with the "!" and one without it. The newly added songs did not have any of the stats the original song had. So I used a script I was told about that goes through and syncs the song's statistics. Then after the song stats were synced I removed the "!" song from the library. I had to do this one song at a time. Of course, this took a VERY long time and I don't really want to go through it again... especially now that I know it may not be a permanent fix anyway!
However here is something new I noticed now that I have Leopard: The files that are showing up as missing are also the ones that don't have a "thumbnail" icon of the album cover in the finder. Also, if I go into coverflow view in the finder those files don't have the album as the other files do. However, there should be no differences between the files. For example, one album where each song was ripped at the same time in the same way will have some songs that have the cover icon and some that don't.
As I reported last time, this is not specific to one machine and has noting to do with the drive the songs are on. This also was happening on both 10.5.1. and 10.4.11 and lower.
So, why is this happening and how can it be fixed. I'm not going to re-import the songs because then I loose all my stats, ratings, etc and have to re-do the long method of fixin the stats.. There needs to be some way to permanently fix this problem. Is it with the song files or the library? Is there some sort of validation script that can be run?
Oh, on a side note... pre-leopard the "!" would show all the time. Now, if I close iTunes and re-open the "!" are gone until I try to play the song that should have the "!". This makes things even more challenging because I can't quit iTunes if I want to know which songs are "missing".
JeffI have this same issue. I use an external HD connected to an Airport Extreme Base station to store my music. On Tiger 10.4.11 iTunes created a music database just fine and found every mp3. I just installed Leopard last night and left iTunes to create its database overnight. It found every song, but there are plenty with the exclamation just as you described. If I want to play these songs I must hit "Yes" to locate the song manually. I can then play any other song with an exclamation point in that particular album, but if I go to try to play another song with an exclamation point from another album I must repeat the process again.
It's definitely a problem with Leopard as I just got my mac back from the Apple store with a replaced hard drive. I created the iTunes database in Tiger on one day, then the next decided to purchase and install Leopard. So one day passed between each instance of building the database and it worked fine on a clean install of Tiger but not on a clean install of Leopard. -
Bought new iMac & moved (or thought I had) all of my music from the old PC to the new iMac. Have discovered several hundred songs are orphaned on old PC; I can "see" them with both machines turned on & iTunes open. "Missing" songs show in iMac itunes Shared folder. How do I move them all so I can then & retire the old PC?
From things you are saying, such as "shared folder" and having both machines on, it doesn't sound to me like you truly moved the whole iTunes collection.
iTunes: How to move [or copy] your music to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
do not confuse moving your whole folder and library with moving just media files as in
iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
Quick answer if you let iTunes manage your music: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its subfolders and files) intact to the other drive. Start iTunes with the option key held down and guide it to the new location of the library.
Macworld - How to transfer iTunes libraries between PC and Mac - http://www.macworld.com/article/46248/2005/08/shiftitunes.html -
When syncing my iTunes to my iPad from the laptop, I get a list of missing songs; they are in the library, but not in the music folder on my HD. In particular, I uploaded 3 CDs at the same time, all are in my library, and all synced to the iPad - but the music from two of them are missing from the music folder. Questions are (a) where might they have gone? and (b) is there a way of "reverse loading" them back to my hard drive from the iPad? Thanks in advance!
Hi dones49,
It sounds like your issue here is that iTunes can not find the files for some of the songs you have brought into it. This happens occasionally even if the songs have not been moved from the location that iTunes places them on import or purchase. When you try to use the song, iTunes prompts you to find the file, as you have seen.
To find the file, use the information in this article to navigate through the iTunes media folders -
Locate and organize your iTunes files
If you are still unable to locate the files, you may need to download them from the iTunes store again, or rip them from your CDs. See this article for assistance with downloading your past purchases -
Download past purchases
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L -
I haven't been on itunes in a very long time. I had a lot more songs than there are listed there now. What can I do about it, or is there something I can do to get the missing songs back?
forget about it, I actually figured it out.
-
Case of the Missing Song, iTunes help....
My iTunes list shows that I have 545 songs listed, yet my iPod window shows that I only have 544 songs on my iPod..
where's my missing song??
please help...thank youSorry; wrong link:
hudgie: iTunes lists more songs than iPod -
Missing Songs in iTunes Music folder.
I recently found that I have missing files in my iTunes music folder. The missing songs seem to be random. For instance, Abby Road is missing tracks 3 and 6. My music folder is on my main hard drive and I also have a Time Capsule backup.
When I look for the songs in my backup disk, I find I have to go back as far as 4 months to restore some of them and I just now found a song that was there yesterday but gone today. This leads me to believe that a few songs are randomly being deleted every day. Anyone else with this problem?
I'm using iTunes 10.1 but apparently I've been having this problem for at least 4 months now so I believe it was an earlier version when it started happening.redcore,
I got an answer from AppleCare on this one and it seems to be working as I have not noticed any more lost songs. The first person I talked to had never heard of this but his boss had and told me I needed to create a new iTunes music folder. This is a bit of a pain, but not as bad as going through TimeMachine to replace all the random, missing files (that part took a while).
You have to Option-click (hold option while you click) on the iTunes icon and then click "Create new library". Name it something different from your old one and then drag all your old content into the new library. You will have to do this with the music, apps, movies, etc. Also, keep in mind you will have to export all your playlist info to the new iTunes as well. I didn't export them all so I'm not sure how, or if, you can do them all at the same time. I did File/Library/Export Playlist in the old iTunes... Than had to do File/Library/Import Playlist when in the new iTunes I had created.
Hope this helps -
When syncing my iphone today, I recieved a message that "Some of the items in the iTunes library were not copied to the iPhone...because they could not be found." All the missing items were ones I had purchased thru iTunes. The songs in question are still on my playlist, but there is an exclimation point next to themthat when clicked on, another message box appears: "...song could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" When I choose that option, it takes me to iTunes folder in C drive:\Windows\sysWOW64. I have no idea where the files would be in the huge list that comes up. I haven't deleted anything recently (I synced the iPhone 2 days ago and didn't get the message). My CCleaner and anti-virus have not run yet today. They last ran 3 days ago. Some of the missing songs are actually albums that I purchased. Help?!
You're on the right track - somehow the ITL file got damaged. Nobody knows exactly why this happens - you can google "data corruption" and read about it.
If you don't have a good backup of your ITL file, you're going to have to rebuild your library. I know that's not what you want to hear, but it's true. You have 2 options:
You can build on the current ITL library file that has missing songs, if you can figure out what's missing. This method won't lose all your ratings & playcounts.
Or, just start with a an empty library and add your main music folder back into itunes.
Then start making weekly backups of your ITL file so if something like this happens again, you're not totally out of luck. -
Suddenly missing songs in iTunes, though only a handful?
The songs were originally purchased through iTunes and are now missing from my iTunes library. They do, however, still exist on my iPod. When I try and open the file in iTunes, it tells me that the "original file cannot be found" and then asks if I want to look for it. I did move a library over from my PC awhile back, but some of the missing songs were downloaded from iTunes after that process, so I don't think there's a relationship.
I've also tried the "transfer purchases" from iPod option to no avail...
Message was edited by: hlo92I'm having the same problem. I recently upgraded to iTunes 9 and at about the same time, upgraded to Windows 7 (64-bit). It's really weird. I'm missing random songs, some from artists that I still have other songs for, some where I purchased multiple songs on the same transation and 1-2 are missing and the others are still there.
I'm afraid to sync, the songs are still on the iTouch, but not in the library.
Maybe you are looking for
-
Images show up on Firefox but not IE after upgrade from 8.1 to 9.2
Hello, <p> We are encountering a strange situation: we upgrade our Weblogic 8.1 Application to 9.2. The images on the login page can be properly displayed on Firefox, but not in IE. <p> In order to make the ima
-
Problems installing CS6 Upgrade on Win7 64Bit
I purchased the upgrade from CS4 to CS6 Design and Web Premium. I've tried 4 times now to install, with varying degrees of success. The first attempt installed about half the products and gave an enormous error list. The second installed everythin
-
For some inexplicable reason, Safari 5.1 will not open in Windows 7. It appears in task manager briefly and then disappears. No windows open; I have tried everything. Any ideas??
-
How to view changes in all IH orders in a specific timeframe
I'm looking for a report or a TA in which you can see all changes of IH orders in a specific timeframe? ...not changes in a single order (Transaktion IW32/ IW33)
-
Eror Creating New Technical System in portal(SLD)
Hi creating SLD through Techinal system(in portal).When i click to register Message server to enter message server name and port ,it is displaying a below error:- Please help me out Error Summary While processing the current request, an exception occ