My music has almost completely disappeared from iTunes

I had a resonable amount of songs and albums I had purchased and/or uploaded from CDs in iTunes and now the only songs that appear are from the last four albums I bought in the last few weeks.
WHERE IS MY MUSIC?

I had a resonable amount of songs and albums I had purchased and/or uploaded from CDs in iTunes and now the only songs that appear are from the last four albums I bought in the last few weeks.
WHERE IS MY MUSIC?

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  • HT1451 Music has completely disappeared from ITunes library! Please Help!!

    Music has completely disappeared from ITunes library! Please Help!!
    Hours and Hours of renaming, adding cover photos and so on have been for nothing. Itunes cannot find the files since they're not in the library at all!
    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.
    tt2

  • Music completely disappeared from itunes and computer

    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.

  • A few of my playlists completely disappeared from itunes.

    I have all of my devices (my iPad, my iPhone, my kids' iPod Touches and my wife's iPhone) set up to sync wirelessly when connected to wifi.  Just yesterday, all of my wife's playlists disappeared from her iPhone.  When I went onto to iTunes, they were completely gone as if they had been deleted.  She didn't delete them (she never goes onto iTunes)  Any thoughts on how this could have happened?  None of the other playlists are missing.  Only the ones synced to her phone.  Also, this is not a new phone.  It is my old one, and I never had an issue with it.

    Perhaps what happened is that your kids may have (accidentally) deleted those particular playlists on their devices, and that deletion then cascaded through your sync setup to all your other devices.
    Something similar happened to me, in that our little guys were playing with one of our iPod nanos and deleted a couple of playlists. When I synced (via cable) that device with my computer, those playlists were wiped from my iTunes library, and then via iTunes Match, also instantaneously deleted on *all* of our family computers and iPhones! So not only were those playlists gone, but I didn't even have evidence of their existence from which I could manually re-create them.
    Automatic syncing (whether via Match, or your wi-fi setup) is really great, although it does permit accidental deletions from causing some hard-to-fix, hard-to-identify damage to your music library.
    That's just my suggestion, although I certainly don't want to impugn your good kids! :-)

  • Icloud icon and conetnt (music, tv shows etc) disappeared from itunes

    hello - the icloud icon in itunes disappeared - why? How do I get it back? I cannot access my tv shows & music that were in the icloud.
    I am using a PC windows 7.
    thx

    Try opening iTunes and going to Edit>Preferences>Store and making sure "Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases" is checked.

  • TS3221 help! my iphone 4 has an apple displayed but is frozen and it appears that it has not completed downloading from itunes..Ive tried turning it off and on. Ive also tried to remove microsim and the apple is still present on screen..what do i do know?

    Ive tried to update all my applications from my computer to my iphone4 and while my phone was trying to sync them. I have now an apple icon displayed on my phone and it has 'frozen up'. tried turning on and off but apple icon still remains. tried shutting down computer aswell as removing the Micro-Sim on my phone and still no change.. what is going on?

    Plug in with Wall Charger and Reset, hold both Home and Power buttons until the iPhone begins to restart. Usually up to 20 seconds of holding both buttons.
    If still problems and you decide to Restore the iPhone Firware. Then open iTunes on computer, connect iPhone to computer. Then hold both Home and Power buttons until the iPhone is recognized in Recovery Mode. Restore the Firware. Usually takes about 20 seconds of holding both buttons.

  • Music completely disappeared from my iPhone 4S... Four Times!!!

    I own an iPhone 4S.  Since I've upgraded to iOS 8, the music player function has been buggy.  I am also a subscriber of iTunes Match.
    For the fourth time today, and in 3 months, ALL the music that I have downloaded from iTunes Match have completely disappeared from my iPhone.  It's EXTREMELY frustrating to have to re-download my songs and albums again and again.  Even that is an issue in itself.  The downloads are buggy as well as the songs don't download well.
    Does any know how I can avoid my songs from being auto-wiped out from my iPhone please?  And what is wrong???

    Try this support document. iTunes Match on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support  at the bottom of the page there are several more links, and one is for troubleshooting. I do not use Match, so I cannot tell you anything else about how it works, etc., but the troubleshooting link should help.

  • TS3297 Hi, I've setup my new mini ipad today, restored a backup from icloud and all is fine.  However, when I try to download my music, they almost completely download then an error message pops up saying "unable to download songs" - can anyone help pleas

    Hi, I've setup my new mini ipad today, restored a backup from icloud and all is fine.  However, when I try to download my music, they almost completely download then an error message pops up saying "unable to download songs" - can anyone help please?

    So it appears iCloud/iTunes Match isn't the issue - the error message would seem to be complaining about where the music is being downloaded to. So with this in mind:
    In iTunes select Preferences and select Advanced. The iTunes media folder should be set to /Users/<your account>/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music. <your account> would be whatever your user account is. If you see something else there I'd guessing it is a folder you don't have permission to write to.

  • HT1819 My first Podcast that I submitted has disappeared from iTunes.  Where did it go?

    My first Podcast that I submitted has disappeared from iTunes.  It is still in my RSS feed.  How can I get it back?  I would like them all availbale for download.
    Thanks,
    Dan Z

    Downloaded films (and those synced from your computer) should be in the Videos app (iTunes on the iPad is just the iTunes store) :

  • Season 2 of madmen has just disappeared from iTunes . Any idea why ???

    Season 2 of madmen has just disappeared from iTunes ? Any idea why ??

    It's mainly songs that I've had on there for ages, that I've uploaded from CDs, the ones I've purchased seem to be still on there....

  • HT4914 My music is stored on an external hard drive. All music that I buy, whether from itunes or some other provider, automatically gets loaded onto my external drive. There is some music on my computer drive as well. Will match work in this circumstance

    My music is stored on an external hard drive. All music that I buy, whether from itunes or some other provider, automatically gets loaded onto my external drive. There is some music on my computer drive as well. Will match work in this circumstance?

    I followed all the instructions for consolidating my music into one folder on my external hard drive. (I'm struggling with this because my ext HD was renamed when I synched my iPod shuffle last night. The "E:" drive has now become the "F:" drive and all my songs have those dreaded exclamation points next to them. Exploring my computer, I found "My music" folders in two place on my C: drive and one place on my external hard drive... and the song list in each place is different.
    Argh.
    So... following the directions in the article reference here, I attempted to consolidate all of my songs into one folder on my external hard drive.
    But.. I checked the song list when the "consolidation" was complete... and MANY songs are missing. They're still on the C: drive, but don't appear to have been copied to the new folder on the ext HD.
    I would appreciate any suggestions.
    Thanks so much!
    Edit: I tried to reassign the ext. HD a permanent letter, but my Control panel does not appear to offer the option of Administrative tools. Is there an easy way to get to this, as this seems to be the root of the problem?
    Thanks.
    Message was edited by: hbdivegirl

  • While extracting file during restore, device disappear from iTunes; then error message "device cannot be found" pop up

    After failing to update iphone OS, now iphone is in restore mode
    Device Manager recognize USB is connected to iphone with Location: Location 0 (Apple Mobile device (recovery mode))
    IPhone in "connect to itunes" screen
    After connect to itunes, message "itunes has detected iphone in recovery mode. You must restore this iphone before it can be used with itunes." appear.
    In Device -> iphone screen, after clicking "Restore" button, itunes status become "Extracting software..."
    During extracting software process, iPhone change from "connect to itunes" screen to just "apple logo", then go back to "connect to itunes" screen; but at the same time device-iphone disappear from itunes; once itunes complete extracting software, error message comes out "The iphone "iphone" could not be restored. The device cannot be found"
    Tried again few times with all USB device removed & turn off all the anti-virus software and all other non window / non-apple softwares; but same thing happened.
    so now I'm stuck.... please help.

    after reading loads of forum, I didn't find anyone with the exact issue as mine. But I've followed some of the restore issue solution and now I've fixed my phone. Yeah! maybe not all the steps are necessary, but here was what I've done to fix it:
    1.     update itunes
    2.     Ensure Apple Mobile device driver is updated and work (i.e. iphones is detected in device manager)
    3.     run "msconfig", ensure all other non microsoft / non apple softwares are off
              - Services: only enable all microsoft services, apple mobile device and bonjour service
              - Startup: only enable QTTask & iTunesHelper
    4.    Restart computer
    5     turn on itunes
    6.    connect iphones via USB.
    7.     itunes show iphone in device column, but iphone still stay in "connect to itunes" screen
    8.     Hold Sleep button + Home button until the screen goes dark (iphone disappear from itunes device column at the same time), then just keep holding the home button (without holding the sleep button)
    9.     first time, though itunes showa iphone in the device column again, but iphone screen go from apple icon straight to "connect to itunes" screen and stay there again.
    10.     I repeat step 8, this time though itunes show iphone in the device column again, but the iphone screen stay dark showing nothing (instead of showing "connect to iTunes" screen)
    11.     then I click restore in itunes, this time it manages to finish extracting software without iphone restarting itself during the process; itunes find the iphone and complete the restore.
    12.     As I do backup all the time, now I just need to sync all the files / setting back to iphone, everything back to normal again.
    still not sure what happened to my phone, but now it's fix =>

  • How do I move all my iphone information to a new computer/itunes without having access to me old computer/itunes including music which was not downloaded from itunes?

    My itunes is 100miles away from me and I want to move all the information on my iphone to my new itunes on a new computer including music which has not been downloaded from itunes and all my apps. Please help as I am still on version 3.1.3.

    You should be able to extract the media from the device with the tips in  this post from forum regular Zevoneer but I'm not sure what the implications are for your application settings. You can probably transfer your purchases into a newly authorised library, backup the device, recover any other media using third party tools, then restore the device from the backup. That should switch the assocation of the device to the new machine but I've not had cause to personally test the method.
    tt2

  • IPod Touch stops syncing and disappears from iTunes

    I have a problem with an iPod Touch 8GB: when connecting it to a MacBook, it starts syncing and transferring songs, but after a while it just stops syncing and disappears from iTunes. The iPod will still show "sync in progress", and it will still show up in the System Profiler, but not in iTunes.
    If I cancel the sync from the iPod, the song library will be inaccessible ("Cancelling sync" or whatever it says) until I unplug the USB cable. If I keep trying (by unplugging and re-plugging it in), it will eventually finish syncing all songs, but it takes ages that way.
    I have tried 2 different USB cables and upgraded to firmware 1.1.5 (it was 1.1.4 before). Any ideas?

    I have upgraded to 2.0.1 and the latest itunes as of today and still have the exact same issue. I have even tried the following with no luck :
    1. Restart the ipod after this occurs and then sync again.
    2. Deleted my entire list of Music and Videos from itunes and reloaded them back.
    3. Formatted and Reinstalled Windows and tried syncing again.
    Thanks to this issue, i dont even have a single song or Video on my ipod....
    Can someone please Help.
    Message was edited by: callnish

  • ITunes won't sync any music that was not purchased from iTunes onto my iPhones 5S

    I have updated to Mavericks on my macbook, and iTunes will no longer sync my iPhone 5S properly. It does not remove any music that has been deleted. My phone will no longer play any music that was not purchased from iTunes. I tried to delete all my music and download it again, but iTunes would not remove it from the phone. Is anyone having a similar problem? Any ideas to get things back to normal? I am restoring from back up as I type, but I doubt it will solve my problem.

    I had the exact same problem since upgrading to Mavericks. When I tried to copy the music from iTunes, either wifi or wired, it appeared in 'On this phone' greyed out. Forcing a sync didn't help. I noticed too that iTunes showed odd values for the amount of space available on the phone - around 9GB compared to 27GB on the phone itself.
    I solved the problem by turning off iTunes Match, turning it back on again, then reconnecting my iPhone.
    Message was edited by: ajstevens

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