Library keeps losing songs

This question has been asked before, but I've never seen an answer to it. My iTunes library keeps "losing" songs - I get the exclamation point and it tells me it can't find the song. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it; the songs are where they always have been, no names or locations have been changed. I've had songs I just added to the library disappear the very next time I open iTunes. I have my iPod set to "Manually Manage Music" so at least I'm not terrified every time I plug it in that I'm going to lose my music, but it's very annoying to keep having to find the same tunes over and over...Does ANYBODY know why this happens?

Unbelievable.
I have the same problem. Well, the songs are not really lost, but iTunes just gets confused about the correct path to the file. This may be related to handling of names. E.g., I have two folders for the B52's in my iTunes libraries, one is "The B52's", the other just "B52's". Maybe I even have a 3rd one, "B52's, The". Or an album appears twice, once in the folder "Compilations" and once in the folder "Various artists". The missing files are ever in one of these multiple locations. But iTune seems to use a wrong one. And there is no easy way to fix it. It needs to be done manually, song by song and takes easly 30..60 seconds per song. Blurp!
I have upgraded to the new iTunes version, yesterday. And got a few 100 songs declares as "missing".
To find out if you have any missing songs, just select all songs in your library via CTRL-A and press CTRL-I afterwards, then OK. All "missing" songs will get marked by an exclamarion mark .
This is a serious issue. I can't believe that it is ignored by Apple. Sorry, Apple, your stuff costs some extra money. I expect it to work. But iTunes - obviously! - doesn't.
Just unbelievable.

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