ITunes on Time Capsule : having trouble finding track files

Question

I recently coupled up my Mac Mini to a Time Capsule with the intent of using the TC as my iTunes music server. This has been documented in several threads here already, but this is what I did:
1. Copied my entire iTunes music folder (i.e. all the MP3s) onto a subdirectory of my TC called Music.
2. Started iTunes for the first time on my Mac Mini and created a new library (I don't care about my meta data at the moment)
3. In the Advanced Settings I set my music folder to point at the TC's :Music folder.
4. Unchecked the appropriate boxes so that iTunes is prevented from copying or reorganising my music library.
5. Used the "Add Folder..." menu item to import all the music into the iTunes library.
Here's the problem: When I browse through the track list each track has a little exclamation icon next to it. This usually indicates that the file cannot be located. If I select the file and hit the Play button nothing happens (as you would expect). If I open up the track properties it states that the file cannot be found (again, as one would expect). However, if I double click on the track it suddenly starts playing and the exclation icon dissappears! So the file has magically been found....
Now I don't want to have to go through my entire library double clicking each file one at a time otherwise I'll be here until the end of eternity. Does anyone know what has gone wrong here, or know how this can be remedied?

Answer 1

I have experienced the pointer problem during the learning phase of connecting my network to TC. I think it much more important to get the network (interference and dropouts, preference user wants and speed) right first then deal with the relationship of itunes to TC.
Any kind of change I made to the TC within the network produced the pointer problem. Example, I had everything set so I changed the multi cast rate and the pointer problem surfaced, changing the wireless name caused it and changing the TC name also.
Since then I've settled into no change of any kind once I got my network the way I wanted and currently no pointer problems.