Music disappearing from iTunes media

I was recently editing my music and doing the iTunes Music Match when I noticed many of my songs had the little exclamation mark next it (and most of these were items I paid & downloaded through iTunes on this computer).
I did a search on my computer and couldn't find it. The music is still on my iTouch so I used a software program to copy over all my music on the iTouch. When ever I copy it over to my iTunes media & import it to my Library, it disappears from the iTunes media folder.
Why is this doing this? I am not the only person I know that is missing music from their systems either. I had a whole FaceBook thread going on it yesterday, so its not my computer. Plus the music is still on my computer in a back up folder.

I've just had the same problem - first time iTunes has been unreliable in many years! I bought and downloaded a music album to my iPad on Saturday morning. Listened to it all and then purchased a gift copy of the same album for someone.
But, having synced at least twice since Saturday, only one of the album tracks remains on my iMac and iPad.
First question is how and why this might have happened. Second question is: how do I get back the missing tracks I've paid for?

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I have a lot more music that I copied from CDs that has disappeared or "can't be found". Some of it is still in my iTouch. these are not new, they go back a ways.
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I've just had the same problem - first time iTunes has been unreliable in many years! I bought and downloaded a music album to my iPad on Saturday morning. Listened to it all and then purchased a gift copy of the same album for someone.
But, having synced at least twice since Saturday, only one of the album tracks remains on my iMac and iPad.
First question is how and why this might have happened. Second question is: how do I get back the missing tracks I've paid for?

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I have done nothing to my computer but I loaded up iTunes this evening to find that all my playlists and more importantly, the music, has been deleted!
Thankfully I managed to find the track on my hard drive and then imported the 'My Music' folder back into iTunes.
However, all my 'play counts' and star ratings have disappeared and so have the playlists.
Is there a way to get these back?

umm...very new to iTunes (and to Mac,) building an iTunes Music folder from CDs mainly to have tracks to use in videomaking.
Started recently to have tracks come up flagged with exclamation point and message box saying "original file cannot be found, do you want to search for it?" I can always locate them, but it's cumbersome.
I haven't read the iTunes directions (don't even really know where they are...) and have probably done all sorts of things to confuse or **** off iTunes - I've moved around folders, backed up my iTunes Music folder by just dragging it onto the external hard drive and renaming it, made little special subfolders, in short, acting like the PC user I have always been...
I know all the music I've imported is still on my Mac hard drive (and duplicated (twice) on an external hard drive,) so I'm not worried about losing it. Today I reinstalled iTunes and the new blank iTunes music folder was working fine. Ripped 2 CDs and their tracks were accessible, no exclamation points. But when I lassoed, highlighted and dragged all the album icons from one of the backup folders into the new iTunes Music folder, they had the same old problem.
Is there a way to import, copy/paste, drag or otherwise transfer the music from my backup folder into the new iTunes Music Folder so that iTunes will understand that they are there? Or, at worst, how should I proceed from now on? What would be the correct way to back up the iTunes Music Folder? (And what's the difference between the Music Folder and the Library, BTW?)
And is there anywhere I can read about this in some systematic way?
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Music disappearing from Itunes

Hi,
I have read most posts about disappearing music but none of them seem to have the same problem as i do.
My computer is in good working shape and i use itunes regularly because i host a karaoke night at a near by club. I am constantly adding CDs to my library and i have noticed that some of my songs are missing. They seem to be disappearing in a really organized way which is baffling to me. I'm Losing them by artist, not at random. It seems that everytime i host my monthly event im missing music. I have tried everything from saving my music in two different places on my hard drive to reloading all my music multiple times. I am getting frustrated with Apple at this point...
When i backed it up on the hard drive it wiped it in both places...
What can i do?
Help?!?!

I'm having this exact same problem. I'm not deleting music, but it goes missing. It's not in the library and no longer on my computer. I've looked, I've run searches in iTunes and Windows, and it's gone.
My computer is virus and spyware free and I am the only user with access to it.
It was deleting whole albums alphabetically by artist. Several artists starting with A went missing. Then B. Then C. Now songs randomly go missing. Sometimes albums. Upgrading/reinstalling iTunes doesn't solve the problem. I keep everything on my computer up-to-date because I work from home and rely on my computer a fair amount.
I'm getting really frustrated with this problem, and I'm really hoping to find a solution before I give iTunes the boot. No other players appeal to my inner-organizer as well as iTunes does.
Can anyone help?

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I got on my iTunes today and my music all said that the location could not be found. I don't know how or why, for I haven't changed anything or moved my music folder around. Out of over 2000 songs, only 800 remain. But all my folders are still there. All the artist folders in my iTunes folder are all there...but I have no idea where the music went. I did a search and the songs didn't come up. WHY did my music disappear from iTunes and WHY only some of them?! I'd love to say I have them saved on my iPod but my iPod is only 4 gigs and I had over 12 gigs of music so obviously I can't recover all of them. Someone help me find my music!!!

Nobody likes replying to posts like this - if you've searched all your hard drives and the music files are gone, then they're gone.
I assume you looked in the Recycle Bin and did a Win Explorer search instead of just looking in the known folders?
Who knows why this happened! Disasters like this usually convince folks to make regular backups.

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I still have the music on my computer but don't want to add it as it is, as I have spent a lot of time "fixing" it! PLEASE HELP!

Did you use spotlight to search? (I'm assuming you have a Mac as given above despite this thread being in the Windows forum). How long have you used iTunes on this computer? Is there a backup to your library, perhaps an only copy of it on a machine you've "retired". Is the media present in the media folder? (Yes, you've answered that earlier.) If so then the media files should have absorbed all the tag changes that you made and reimporting the media into a new library might not be a complete disaster, though playlists, playcounts, ratings etc. would be irretrievably lost.
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Hello claire267
In the Messages app, in the drop down menu go to Messages > Preferences. Once there click the Accounts tab and then remove the iMessage account and that will stop all messages associate with your phone number from showing up on your computer.
OS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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kcrail wrote:
If you could call and walk me through how to do this, I sure would be grateful. xxx-xxx-xxxx. I am getting on an airplane at 12 noon EST on 4/1/09 and would really like to have some music with me.
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Sorry, kcrail, this is a Community Forum. All support is done here. (BTW, posting your phone number in a Public Forum is somewhat akin to writing it on the wall of the bus station. Never a good idea!)
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I just purchased lots of music yesterday from itunes and amazon but now can't load onto ipod because files are not found.

elkelawdog wrote:
I think I had an old itunes id.
Either you did or did not. Do you not remember?
elkelawdog wrote:
But it never let me burn them to anything other than my Ipod.
Media is not burned to iDevices. Burning an iDevice would destroy it.
Why will iTunes not allow you to sync media to the iDevice? What happens when trying to sync media to an iDevice?
elkelawdog wrote:
I changed my password so now when I pull up my account there is no music.
Changed password to what?
Pull up what account?
What does this have to do with iTunes?
One does not pull up an account to access their media, they simply launch iTunes.
Changing a password has nothing to do with accessing the media on the computer when one launches iTunes.
What is the actual issue that is occurring?
elkelawdog wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to find my old account and then copy that music to my HTC One.?
iTunes has nothing to do with putting media on a non-Apple device.

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