Missing Imported Music

i uploaded a few of my brother's cds in january and they were imported successfully in my itunes. i was able to put them on my ipod, but i just tried to play them and itunes can't find any of his cds. i haven't deleted any files, and nothing turns up when i do a search of my files. this is extremely frustrating because there are now 5+ cds of good music that i don't have anymore - and he lives about 14 hours away so i can't exactly re-import them again.
anyone know how i can get these files back? why did itunes delete them in the first place?

I share my CDs with other family members, and don't consider it stealing. Good grief.
itunes has never deleted any of my CD files. On my Mac, it once sent an itunes store purchase randomly to the trash bin, but I digress.
Have you looked in the windows recycle bin?
BUT.... I don't have an itouch or iphone, which I understand randomly happens for those users, the missing music scenario.
If they are not on your hard drive, they are gone from the PC. You can try using a 3rd-party ipod manager to get them from the ipod to the PC.

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I've tried moving the file of the music from the iTunes folder onto my desktop, and then adding it back into iTunes. I get the window saying the files are being copied into my iTunes library, and they go back into the iTunes folder, but I still can't see them from within iTunes. I can even drag and drop the files onto my iPod within the Devices tab within iTunes, and add the music to my iPod that way, but I don't know why I can't see the tracks in my Library:Music.
This has only become a problem within the last week, but I don't think I've changed any preferences that would cause this problem.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I'm having the same problem, it started like 2 days ago! Songs that I imported from burned CD's a few years ago are suddenly not available on iTunes because iTunes can't find them. And I can't remember their file paths either, so that's a bit of an issue...
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Error while importing music in iMovie 11
I have the same error explained in a other post which was still left unanswered
I have this sound problem after reorganising folders by itunes, i tried to delete al files in itunes and also
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Re: Error while importing music in iMovie 09 from iTunes 09
Posted: Jul 24, 2010 8:08 AM in response to: vincentplaces
I'm having the exact same issue, but still haven't figured out what it is. I note that at the top of this thread it indicates that there are two "helpful" entries and one "solved" entry, but I can't find the solved one, so maybe someone will repost it here or kindly link to it.
There is one icon missing though.
As I read through the excellent tutorial at http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/imovie_09stone.html I scroll down to the point where he talks about dragging music in from iTunes, which is what I'm trying to do. I can see, in his screen shot, the extra little icon that is a red oval and a white "1" in it. I don't get that icon when I am trying to drag my music into the video. I do get the green and white plus icon when I try to drag my music in. Also I DO get BOTH the red 1 and the green plus when I try dragging in a sound effect, which I can do with no problem. But why not the music?
I've been able to drag in music with no problem in other productions, so I can't figure out what is going on with this one. I'm sure there is a setting somewhere that got flipped, but I can't figure out where.
In desperation I also tried adding an extra title slide at the end of my video just to make sure there is more video time than music time in the production, but that didn't help at all.
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Hi
Due to some kind of copy protection in iTunes - I don't copy directly from this in iMovie
to my projects. (Most often the result of doing it in iMovie is a DVD without any sound)
I do
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• then burn this out as an Audio-CD .aiff (NOT .mp3)
• This CD I copy into a folder on my Mac (often containing other material that's connected to the project)
• And then I drag and drop these .aiff files into my movie project in iMovie.
This works Greatly and even more so when I do my DVD.
Yours Bengt W

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I have the same error explained in a other post which was still left unanswered
I have this sound problem after reorganising folders by itunes, i tried to delete al files in itunes and also
deleted the xml file in the itunes dir, created new playlists, but still i have no music sound in imovie timeline
after dragging a mp3 into it. When i preview the file in imovie it souds ok.
Also i see the red dot with the number 1 in the itunes logo while dragging the mp3.
Is there a solution for this problem?
Former post;
Re: Error while importing music in iMovie 09 from iTunes 09
Posted: Jul 24, 2010 8:08 AM in response to: vincentplaces
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I've been able to drag in music with no problem in other productions, so I can't figure out what is going on with this one. I'm sure there is a setting somewhere that got flipped, but I can't figure out where.
In desperation I also tried adding an extra title slide at the end of my video just to make sure there is more video time than music time in the production, but that didn't help at all.
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