Lost songs from library

When trying to sign on to itunes it wouldn't come up but the choices presented-cancel-chose library -or create library. I clicked chose library and chose the most recent, which was from 2006, and all songs since 2006 which I purchased are not there. What happened?

I am having the same problem. i think that the name might be to long for I tunes to import. Does anybody know how you can change this?

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To check all songs, ctrl+check one.

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Here's the exact scenario with it:
1) Ipod connected successfully to iTunes.
2) Drag song from Library(in AAC format) to My Ipod.
3) Song plays successfully in iTunes.
BTW: This is one of the songs from my cd. Not bought.
4) Eject Ipod.
5) Find song in Ipod and press play.
6) Display for song and time appear.
7) About 1/3 of a second of the song plays, then it cuts out and restarts itself. (boots me back to apple logo)

Nope - and it was set to not look for them.
The final clue came when I tried hooking the drive directly to the computer, instead of to the airdisk. iTunes still hung. Then I disconnected the drive and tried to run it, and iTunes came up right away - but with an ! next to each song. Clearly it was trying to find/touch every file in the library on first startup.
I didn't try plugging in the drive and leaving the hanging iTunes running for more than a few minutes, so it's possible that it would have recovered and launched. But after removing the XML file, restoring the library to my pre-7.7 version, I could hear it accessing the directly attached drive (and see it in disk activity in the monitor) for a few minutes (less than I'd left the hanging one trying), before it came up.
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1) 7.7 is definitely trying to touch/see all the files in the library on first launch (proved by the ! when they are missing).
2) Disconnecting/interrupting the touch/see MAY have corrupted something (can't prove it).
3) Since touching 10,000 files takes a LONG time even at 802.11n speeds (let alone b or g), it's worth the hassle to plug the drive in directly for the first time.
4) Patience is a virtue

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I fixed this issue (with help from tech support) and it involved several things.
After adding a song to iTunes, right-click on the song in iTunes and select "Update iTunes Match."
OR go to the iTunes menu-->Store-->Update iTunes Match.
Maybe that's the reason, it just hadn't updated to the cloud.
OR maybe it's not a high-enough bitrate file. This happens to me because most of my tunes are home-recorded.
Sometimes converting to .mp3 or Create AAC version might work. (You do this with a right-click in iTunes, and then you will want to remove the original file from iTunes.)
There is an iTunes Preferences setting, under General Preferences called Import Settings. Try setting it to AAC Encoder and iTunes Plus. That (I think) causes imports to be slightly better quality.
Good luck! The tech support person at Apple is requesting that a knowlege-base article be written about this.

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Still vague. Does the iPod appear in iTunes when you connect the iPod to your PC via the USB sync cable that it came with?
B-rock

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The Shuffle would not eject from within iTunes. I tried dragging it off the desktop to eject it that way and it would not budge. iTunes would not respond and when I tired to force-quit the program, it would not respond. The entire computer froze - very unusual under OSX...
So I had to unplug the shuffle manually and then restart the computer. When I reattached the shuffle, it was blank - a known risk of unplugging a disc without properly ejecting it. I was not too upset cuz it was only 30 songs on one playlist (the shuffle's own play list). I figured I could rebuild it.
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You don't need to know the name of the songs that you have lost because all music purchased from iTunes has the same file extension. So if you search for the file extension, all the purchased music on your HD will show up like this:
So just do a search for ".m4p" (Not including the quotation marks) and your purcased music should show up.
Sam

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Songs from iTunes were wiped out so I wanted to take the music from my iPOD and transfer it to the iTUNES Library. I was told to do to the iPOD folder on my PC and find the hidden folder that contains all of my songs (The folders were titled F00, F01 etc.) and copy all of those folders to my PC somewhere (I copied them to My Computer somewhere). I closed all of that out and went to the iTUNES Library. I proceeded to go to File/ Import Selected File, then go to were I had copied the folders, click on the first folder, highlight all of the songs and then click on Open. All songs were downloading to the Library. Once in the middle of this process, I didn't want to continue scrolling to view and copy the additional folder so I started deleted the folders with songs I had already copied. I then updated my iPOD/ iTUNES and then received a message that some of the songs could not be found. Is my music gone forever? There were about 20-25 songs that I purchased that I lost. Please help.

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How to delete songs from library after already deleted from playlist?

I already deleted several playlists in an attempt to free up space. I later learned that you have to delete it from the library to free up space. I also later learned that if I had used alt del in the first place that would have solved this problem. Is there a way to delete the songs in the library that are no longer on any playlists now? How can I find them easily to delete or is there a way to automatically do it. I've already emptied my trash and my library is way too complicated with a lot of songs not even identified. There's no way I can go to my library to look for songs individually.
Also, if you use alt del to delete a song from a playlist and your library... if that song is in another playlist, will it also make it unavailable anymore for that other playlist, as well?
Thanks,
Bill

William Cimikoski wrote:
I already deleted several playlists in an attempt to free up space. I later learned that you have to delete it from the library to free up space. I also later learned that if I had used alt del in the first place that would have solved this problem. Is there a way to delete the songs in the library that are no longer on any playlists now? How can I find them easily to delete or is there a way to automatically do it.
1) Make a new folder among your playlists.
2) Drag all your existing playlists into that folder.
3) Create a new smart playlist with the rule "Playlist is not {name of the folder}."
4) That smart playlist should contain all songs that aren't in any other playlists, and you can delete them (though I would make sure that everything is as you expect first).
5) Drag your playlists out of the folder, then delete the folder.
Also, if you use alt del to delete a song from a playlist and your library... if that song is in another playlist, will it also make it unavailable anymore for that other playlist, as well?
Playlists are just pointers to songs in your library — they don't contain duplicate copies of the songs. Deleting a song from the library will delete it from all playlists.

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