LOST OVER 100 SONGS BY ACCIDENTALLY CHOOSING TO TRANSFER SONGS
I HAVE ACCIDENTLY CHOSEN TRANSFER ON ITUNES AND LOST OVER 100 SONGS THAT I HAD PURCHASED. IS THERE A WAY TO RETRIEVE THEM?
First of all, try TURNING OFF YOUR CAPSLOCK.
Then try posting in the correct forum.
This is the *Mac OS X Technologies > iSync* forum. iSync is a Mac-only application for syncing Contacts & Calendars to mobile phones & PDAs. It has absolutely nothing to do with iPods, iTunes or Windows PCs.
Try asking in the *iTunes for Windows* forum.
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Original files can't be found?! Help! Lost over 100 songs (I think)
In my Itunes library, next to over 100 songs (on the left), there's an exclamation point. when you click on that, it says Original file can't be found and would I like to locate it?
It USED to be on my Itunes (after hours upon hours of loading my cd's)
Now, I copy my Itunes library to an external drive as a backup, so I'm hoping it's somewhere there...any suggestions?
These songs are no longer on my IPOD either.
Thanks!This has been happening to me for a long time now. Files just randomly disappear, and they have not moved and are exactly where they should be. In an album, purchased from the iTunes store, the first track plays, but the others will not. When I locate the file, it is in the same folder as the first track in my iTunes library folder, which iTunes sees, but have to manually locate all files in the album one at a time. Seeing as I estimate there are hundreds of tracks missing (I have over 6,000), I have not got the time to sort this, so now have big gaps all over the place which is very annoying.
*COME ON APPLE* How hard can it be to write a simple auto locate all missing tracks, as they are all in the iTunes library folder, they have not moved, so why can't it find it.
This is a serious bug and needs addressing. Been happening for ages for no reason at all. Not got a simple fix other than opening one file at a time, which is INFURIATINGLY SLOW!! -
I have a Sonos system in my house and suddenly discovered that many songs I bought off of iTunes years ago are 'grayed out' when I try to play them from my iPhone or do not appear as options at all when I try to play them on Sonos from my overall music library. It's well over 100 songs I bought back before mid-2009 when Apple dropped this DRM thing. From what I think I am reading, if I want to play those songs on Sonos, the ONLY way to do so is pay Apple another $25/year for iTunes Match (which I don't have any interest in) and then re-download them all in iTunes Plus format??
Matt,
I agree it was not all communicated real well, but in your case it will work out. You missed the program where you could have upgraded 100 tracks for 30 cents each (=$30) but now you can do it via Match (=$25). It works pretty simply, per this document:
Can I upgrade my previously purchased music to iTunes Plus?
Yes. If you subscribe to iTunes Match, you can download your previously purchased music again in the iTunes Plus format. To do so:
You need to delete the original DRM song from your library first. Doing this enables you to download the song again in the iTunes Plus format from iTunes in the Cloud.
Click the Purchased tab in the iTunes Store.
Click Music.
Locate the artist of the song you want to upgrade.
Click the iCloud Download icon next to the song you want to upgrade.
Just don't forget to put the Plus files on your hard drive -- properly backed up of course -- and to cancel the Match subscription before the second year rolls around! -
When my iPod syncs, over 100 songs (much of the library, actually) no longer download. What happened? This used to work just fine.
This just happened to me this morning. When I left work on Friday, everything was working in iTunes. And now this morning, I open up iTunes and nothing plays. I did all the troubleshooting from http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93610 and nothing helped. Anyone have any ideas???
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I have been purchasing songs from itunes for the past year. I have over 100 songs. I recently got a new computer and I synched the iphone to it. I can't find 90% of my music. Where is it and how can I get it back? I checked itunes under purchased and it only shows 13 songs. Please help.
You can only sync with one computer. When you synced to the new computer it would have erased it and synced what was on the new computer.
You always need to have a backup, an iPhone is not a storage device.
When you get a new computer you need to transfer your library before syncing
If you don't have a backup you may be out of luck
The only thing would be if you're in the US and have access to the iCloud beta to reload purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519 -
I downloaded the new version of iTunes and now over 100 songs have an exclamation mark beside them and won't play. The message says: "The song ... could not be used because the original file could not be found." How do I get these songs back?
Presuming they're on your computer, right click on them and then follow the prompts to locate hte file on your computer.
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I just had to restore my iphone 4S from backup and lost over 100 pictures. Is there anyway to get them back? Please help!
Not if they weren't backed up first, no.
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Itunes told me it couldn't find the library, and asked me to find it. I apparently picked a version from years ago, because over 500 of my songs are missing, and some I deleted a long time ago have reappeared. I see a file labelled "itunes library" from yesterday (the correct one), but I can't find a way to make itunes use it. This screwup is costing me several hundred dollars at the moment!
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After updating itunes to 11.1 and phone to ios7, I lost more than 3500 songs from my library. My ipod has 4185 songs less the most recent I purchased.
Is there no way an ipod can be used to restore the lost music? Yes, some of it was from cds but were done a long time ago. Obviously it was acceptable for me to compile this music then, now they want to say since it all wasn't purchased, I can't have what was already mine? Plus I do not use nor want to use the cloud, but it keeps creeping up even though I don't want or use it. HELP!See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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HT203167 i synced my iPhone 4 onto my iMac and i lost over 90 songs HELP
i had 138 songs after i synced my phone it left me with 44. and they were my most recent purcheses. now the only thing in iTunes is like 30 sum songs. HOW DO I FIND THE LOST MUSIC???? please this is so important. im a dj i have to have my music
YOu can get all your pictures back by restoring from your backup http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766 assuming you have one, if not then your pictures are gone.
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My home computer system and work laptop shared an iTunes account, the home system crashed and took 125 or so songs with it that weren't on the work machine...work machine is now my home system but how do I retrieve those 125 songs? Calvin
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im not joking, i seriously have to do this every 3 weeks i try to use my computer and its ******* me off
i dont wanna use my phone cuase now i cant get the songs i bought on itunes with my phone OFF of my phone, i have no room on the piece of crap
need help or best solution
dont send a password reset, that doesnt help and it forces me to attempt to remember a new passwordIf you have a rescue email address (which is not the same thing as an alternate email address) on your account then the steps on this page will give you a reset link on your account : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6170
If you don't have a rescue email address (you won't be able to add one until you can answer your questions) then you will need to contact Support in your country to get the questions reset.
Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
When they've been reset (and if you don't already have a rescue email address) you can then use the steps on this page to add a rescue email address for potential future use : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5620
Or, if it's available in your country, you could change to 2-step verification : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5570 -
Mini stops syncing after just over 100 songs
My mini was working fine but I noticed that a couple of songs I usually listen to skipped in the same spot and one even began to lock up my ipod. I hooked up my ipod to resync all of my tunes. I have about 750 songs on my ipod normally, but after about 70 songs had been uploaded it really began to slow down and at 110 or so it stopped syncing. It says it is uploading but there is no progression. I then cannot eject my ipod and I have to force quit itunes. I've reset my ipod numerous times as well as tried to restore many times as well. Nothing seems to work. I still get the same problem every time I try to upload songs. Any ideas?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)I think maybe you should call Apple or contact customer service..You could probably update back to I tunes 6 because thats what I have right now on my computer and it works just fine with it..go to oldversion.com and you could try to reinstall 6..The last time I checked Itunes was unavailable. Hope this helps
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Can someone please help me? I want all my songs back.
There is nothing to download for iTunes Match. It is a service that is built into iTunes that you subscribe to, then enable. So... you enabled the service and let the initial scan, match and upload process complete. Is that correct?
How are you determining that songs are missing? And where are they missing from? Your iTunes library? Please be specific.
As to backups, you say you "can't find them." How are you backing up your personal data?
If it is determined that the song files are actually gone from the computer HDD/SSD and you do not have backups then, yes, you'll need to rip (not "download") the CDs again. -
My hard drive crashed and i've lost over 5000 songs....
Yes, 5000, not hundred... thousand. OMG, I am so upset about it.
So my questions are:
1) is there a way to get my music back?
2) the play lists I have on my ipod and iphone, can I do a reverse sync where I plug in the device into my PC and have the music from the device loaded into itunes??
Thanks... I need help., I look forward to your reply,
SSCHello suzannefromthornhill,
Very sorry to hear about this. Apple and iTunes does NOT support "reverse" syncing.
To recover your music from your iPod you would have to use a different computer program. Sometimes called an "iPod ripper". Doing a search for some kind of iPod recovery software can produce some free options and some that cost. You can probally get away with a free program.
Read your reviews, have your anti viruses in place, and do at your own risk. The point is, there is a way to recover the songs from the ipod but Apple does not support it due to copyright protection laws.
Hope this helps.
~Julian
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