Music library and ! mark

My music itunes library on my mac is now showing an exclamation mark against some albums/songs. If i click on the mark it says original file could not befound would you like to locate it. When i click yes its takes me to the mac HD. Some of these songs are on my ipod but some are not. I recently lost all my libarary and recreated from an external drive. What can i do to get rid of these marks - its every song mapped over.?

This happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, if you are running Windows (you've posted in iTunes for Windows, but your sig mentions Mac OS X...), and as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes.
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i purchased a song on my Ipod Touch 4 GEN. and i listened to it not 5 mins before i synced it with Itunes...then i looked in my Ipod music library and itunes library...GONE. but when i go to download it, like with Apps when if you have purchased an app and it get's deleted...you can have it back for FREE
and i tryed that with this song...and it says that " you have already purchased this song, would you like to buy it again?" but it wont let me get it again for free even tho i have bought it before...is there a way i can get it back with out having to pay??
HHHHHEEEELLLLPPPP!!!! PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE!!!!!!

You buy one and only one download.
As it should have been transferred to your computer when you synced, you can contact itunes support and ask for an exception.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes

ITunes 11 annoyance-when in music library and change views (clicking on Movies or iTunes Store, etc.) then go back to Music, it always resets me back to top of my Music library rather than the artist I was looking at prior.

For example, I am looking at Slash's Apocalyptic Love and click the arrow to Show in iTunes Store. I then click back on my Music Library and instead of seeing Slash's album still, iTunes has reset my view and I will now be back in the letter A's. I then have to scroll down or hit "S" to get back down in my list to find the Slash album again and return to what I was doing. Minor inconvenience, but an annoying quirk.
Previous versions of iTunes kept your place and remembered where you were in the music list.
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I complained about this the day iTunes 11 came out, they clearly don't give a hoot. It's super annoying, cause I get a lot of free music and then I listen to it in one playlist, look for it in my library to delete it, when I switch back, I have to scroll all the way down again again. And god forbid you are in your library when it switches songs while you're looking at something, cause it automatically switches to the song playing, and then you have to scroll back to where you were. Seems to me if it's a feature it used to have, it shouldn't be too hard to add it to an update...

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Do the half billion copies of the album they gave away count as "sales"?
Let's see... An album has to sell 500,000 copies to go gold, 1,000,000 copies to go Platinum, 10,000,000 copies to go diamond... What will they come up with for 500,000,000 copies sold?
Something radioactive would be cool... though difficult to display safely on the wall...

I restored my ipod touch to factory settings, i reimported my saved music library and they show in itunes, but there are no song on my ipod

I restored my ipod touch to factory settings, i reimported my saved music library and they show in itunes, but there are no song on my ipod when i sync it and itunes is showing my ipod as previously named but it does not seem to be transferring to the device, help please

Did you restore to factory settings?new iPod via iTunes on this computer?
What happens when you try to sync?
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Do you have the right boxes checked to sync?
iTunes: Syncing media content to iOS devices and iPod
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I previoulsy have adding many CD to my iTunes music library and then synched them with my iPhone so that I have all music in both places. And I could the CDs in iTunes or iPhone with no problems. Recently, my iTunes "sees" the music but won't play it. Why

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Check the manual for whatever backup program you used, or, if you just copied the files over, copy them that.
How to restore data to your PC is outside the scope of these forums.

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Hello and welcome to the support community
As you know, your iPhone 5 is not compatible with our iBook G4. To get your music in iTunes from your iBook to your iPhone you would need to migrate the music files to a newer intel based Mac. A Mac which has Mac OS X 10.6 or higher installed. Then sync your iPhone 5.

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weird very weird. today i did this again today after already being unsuccessful earlier. exactly the same thing as i have done before, exactly. didn't try to import. didn't say damaged library, copied everything in including date. have tried it about 10 times no luck. today it just worked.
how weird is that?
oh well JG - maybe you mixed a magic potion for me?
anyway, thank you for all the help.
to anyone else reading this all i can say is keep trying, you never know. follow the above advice. you may feel exasperated and think you have done it already, but keep trying.
cheers
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I have a 64 GB iPod that is full. My mother has a 128GB iPod that is largely empty. I want to take my Music library and put it on her iPod, and take her library and put it on my iPod. How do I do this?

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