(Not nessesarly) Missing Music
I recently Restored my Windows XP (Not a Mac User, Sorry) and I didnt Back up any of my songs (Due to the Computer not Starting up far enough). I didnt buy these Songs from the Apple store or any other Online Music buying sites, but I ripped them from CDs that i owned (I do not own them any longer) and the music is on my iPod touch. I also have a couple of movies from Digital downloads from the DVDs that i got them from on here too. My Question is "How can i move unpurchased songs and Movies from my iPod Touch for my iTunes?"
Thanks for the Help.
EltNoobl
(Not realated to the post but) PS: YAY SNOW!
(Post Related) PSS: I used this post on your site to move my Apps but It didnt move my Music or Movies. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2269243&tstart=0
Message was edited by: EltNoobl (Yes it was)
Reimport your CDs. If you don't own them any more, you no longer have any legal right to the tracks that were on them and will need to remove them from your iPod.
For content purchased from the iTunes Store, use the "transfer purchases from iPod" command under the iTunes File menu.
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Hi dones49,
It sounds like your issue here is that iTunes can not find the files for some of the songs you have brought into it. This happens occasionally even if the songs have not been moved from the location that iTunes places them on import or purchase. When you try to use the song, iTunes prompts you to find the file, as you have seen.
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Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing with your purchased album.
First, I recommend trying to download the album from you list of past purchases. Use the steps in the section titled "Download previous purchases on Mac or PC > iTunes Store" in the following article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
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To unhide your purchases
Open iTunes on your Mac or PC.
If you're not already signed in, choose Store > Sign in.
Choose Store > View My Account. (You may be asked to enter your password again).
On your Account Information summary, scroll down to the "iTunes in the Cloud" section and click Manage.
Choose a content type by clicking Music, TV shows, Apps, or Books from the top.
Click the Unhide button next to the item you would like to restore.
Note: If the item you are unhiding is not already downloaded on your computer locally, it will begin downloading automatically.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4919
If you are still not able to download the album, you can report the issue with this purchases using the steps in this article:
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You'll have to update your OS on your Macbook.
Click on the black Apple logo at the top left of your Mac screen. Then click on Software Update.
support.apple.com/kb/ht1338 -
Missing music? or not... help please
Hi,
I went into iTunes today, and things have become strange. Here are are some of the symptoms:
. some songs now appear with the dreaded '!' exclamation mark
. when I go into Explorer and look at my iTunes music folder (I have selected iTunes to manage my music), all artists (I think) appear, right up to half way through the letter R. No music folders are listed past R. For example, no U2 folder.
. in iTunes, I click on 'Beautiful Day' by U2, it plays. When I bring up the path, it says c:.../iTunes music/U2/All that you can't leave behind/Beautiful Day
. if I then click on 'Show in Explorer' - it shows the path as well
. if I then try to find the U2 folder in Explorer not starting from iTunes, it is not there - all stops at R.
. iTunes thinks there are 6,000 songs. When i go through Explorer, and click on the Properties of the iTunes Music folder, it counts 5,000 approx songs.
So, some music that should play does not, and some music that according to explorer no longer exists, plays fine with iTunes.
Bottom line - a goodly portion of my music has either disappeared from my hard drive, or iTunes has somehow been corrupted.
Any suggestions on what might have happened and how to fix this?Hi,
I went into iTunes today, and things have become strange. Here are are some of the symptoms:
. some songs now appear with the dreaded '!' exclamation mark
. when I go into Explorer and look at my iTunes music folder (I have selected iTunes to manage my music), all artists (I think) appear, right up to half way through the letter R. No music folders are listed past R. For example, no U2 folder.
. in iTunes, I click on 'Beautiful Day' by U2, it plays. When I bring up the path, it says c:.../iTunes music/U2/All that you can't leave behind/Beautiful Day
. if I then click on 'Show in Explorer' - it shows the path as well
. if I then try to find the U2 folder in Explorer not starting from iTunes, it is not there - all stops at R.
. iTunes thinks there are 6,000 songs. When i go through Explorer, and click on the Properties of the iTunes Music folder, it counts 5,000 approx songs.
So, some music that should play does not, and some music that according to explorer no longer exists, plays fine with iTunes.
Bottom line - a goodly portion of my music has either disappeared from my hard drive, or iTunes has somehow been corrupted.
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recently when i was creating a playlist, i realized that i was missing music from my extensive itunes (12.0.1.26) library. i found the solution "itunes: finding lost media and downloads" and used the general approach to find the music in finder and copy it to itunes. i don't want to do this every time i find i am missing music. is there an automated fix? i want apple to develop a way to automate the fix. can it be that this isn't a problem for many people?
i ask this now because i just looked for music i thought i had but can't find. maybe i am wrong about having the artist, but it has happened on another artist too. i can't trust itunes to tell me whether i have a song or not. i don't want to keep going back to finder, especially when the instructions in "itunes: finding lost media and downloads" doesn't actually reflect my system (os x 10.7.5).
i don't want to try to do a restore. i have never done a restore on my mac (previously a pc user). and, i don't know how far back to take the restore to find the old music. and then music i have added since i lost the old music wouldn't be there.
i understand that there are so many system variables that apple would need to take into consideration with a general fix. but: i am assuming that apple's changes have caused my problem and feel that apple should do something to fix it. perhaps my assumption is incorrect.
thank you for your help.limnos, i always have backups. the problem is that i don't know how far back in time to take a restore because i don't know how long this has been going on. and, if i take the restore back very far, i will lose what has been added since the music started to disappear.
i don't even know what you mean when you say "you will check there aren't any broken links (use a script from the Dougscripts web site) before you do a backup."
i agree with you to some extent about not automatically installing upgrades. i'm still running lion and was pushed to it from snow leopard. the problem is that i have a hard time envisioning the changes described in an update to judge whether something is valuable or not.
i have questions about your last paragraph. i'm going to repeat it here and then insert my questions as i go. please forgive my all caps for the moment:
"Now for your missing music, is it that there are broken links, or are things missing completely from the library?" I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. I BELIEVE THAT THE PROBLEM HAS TO DO WITH BROKEN LINKS. WHEN I COULDN'T FIND THE MUSIC THAT I THOUGHT I HAD LOADED INTO ITUNES YEARS AGO, I FOUND THE CD'S AND IMPORTED THEM TO ITUNES. I GOT A MESSAGE ABOUT SOME OF THE TRACKS BEING DUPLICATES THAT ASKED WHETHER I WANTED TO IGNORE OR IMPORT. I CHOSE IMPORT BECAUSE ITUNES DIDN'T TELL ME WHAT WAS DUPLICATED. IT WAS ONLY AFTER RE-IMPORTING SEVERAL CD'S THAT I REALIZED THAT THERE WERE NOW DUPLICATES OF THE CD'S: THE FILES I HAD JUST LOADED AND THOSE THAT I HAD LOADED SOME TIME AGO. THE ORIGINALS MAGICALLY APPEARED AFTER I RE-IMPORTED THE CD'S. I'M GUESSING THAT THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A BROKEN LINK I DON'T KNOW HOW TO RECOGNIZE A BROKEN LINK OR HOW TO PREVENT ONE. AFTER I REALIZED THE PROBLEM, I FOUND THE "FINDING LOST MEDIA AND DOWNLOADS" QUIDE. I LOCATED THE MISSING MUSIC IN FINDER AND DRAGGED IT TO ITUNES. DOES THIS COUNT AS A BROKEN LINK?
"If the latter and you use iTunes default settings for managing media, you can drag your media folder to Automatically Add To iTunes. It should add anything in the folder but not in the library list but ignore things that are." CAN YOU REPHRASE THIS LAST PARAGRAPH? I DON'T KNOW WHAT "DEFAULT SETTINGS FOR MANAGING MEDIA" MEANS.
FOR "DRAG MEDIA FOLDER TO AUTOMATICALLY ADD TO ITUNES," I THINK YOU MEAN I CAN DRAG /MUSIC/ITUNES/ITUNES MEDIA/MUSIC IN FINDER TO THE ITUNES ICON IN THE DOCK. AND, THAT THAT ACTION WILL REPLACE ANYTHING MISSING IN ITUNES BUT NOT DUPLICATE THE FILES THAT ARE IN ITUNES. IS THAT RIGHT?
thank you for your time and help, limnos. -
A few days ago, I plugged my ipod touch into my computer to charge it, and also add new music I purchased. When I unplugged the USB cable ( I disconnected it from the ipod first, as I was told to do) I went to look through my music. There was a notification, I don't remember what it said verbatum, but the gist was "177 songs could not be properly synced onto your device". Now, I'm missing music from my itunes library. For example, I purchased two full albums from the same band, now over half the songs from the albums are just gone, they are no longer on my ipod or itunes. Does anyone know what happend, and/or how I can fix this? Please and thank you
P.S. This happend after installing itunes 6, I've noticed many other people are also having problems with it as wellCould be several things. Without more information like what was the wording of the error message I will not even guess.
You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store -
ITunes can not find my music on external hard drive
Had to redo my hard drive; had all music on external hard drive; copied iTunes folder onto external hard drive. Now that my desktop hard drive is clean, and new iTunes downloaded, it can not find my music on the external drive which I have always used. Is there some setting I am missing, do I have to copy music onto CPU?
Hold the SHIFT key while launching iTunes. You will get the option to navigate to the iTunes folder on your external drive. In the iTunes folder point it to the iTunes Library.itl file.
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Hi
My library is 3,500 songs, and about half is "missing".
Well they are not actually missing, but Itunes thinks they are.
Sometimes individual songs are marked as missing, sometimes whole albums. The "missing" songs and albums are in the iTunes folder structure, but with a different folder name which iTunes isn't seeing. Here's what happened.
I made hundreds of 'batch' changes using the "multiple item information" window, as follows: Having selected the songs and opened the information window (via apple-key I), I would change the album name, or delete the composer field, or change the artist name or whatever, and save the results.
All seemed fine until today when I got the dreaded exclamation point for a song I tried to play, with the attendant popup saying "...original file could not be found ...". "Spotlight" can find it though. It is there ... in a different folder!!
Here is what is actually on disk:
...Ella Fitzgerald>Ella_ Intimate Ella> 10/12 songs (my new album name)
...Ella Fitzgerald>Intimate Ella> missing 2 songs (the original album name)
ITunes shows all 12 songs under the new album name I gave it, and shows 2 songs as missing
(I did a "consolidate library" and that is when the extent of the problem manifested).
It seems to me there is a bug in the "multiple item" update function, where not all selected items are actually updated. Some of the originals get left out and remain in their original folders.
The question now is how do I get Itunes to "find" the "missing" songs and albums without loosing the dozens of hours of edits I've made to the library??
And how (or should I) report this to Apple. (I was on the phone with my AppleCare person and all I got was "we don't know ... good luck")
Thanks
(Glum) Peter.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8) MacNewbie, PC Oldie
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)Hi
My ideas:
1. Make sure that every music file has mp3 format (it may sound silly, but I was looking for one album for a while after I realised that it was .acc not mp3 );
2. Try to copy them one more time to your N97 using Ovi Suite;
3. Check if music files has been physically copied to your phone memory (the simplest way to do it is to browse phone folders while connected via usb).
good luck
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Albert Einstein
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Hi, When I try to sync my iphone not all the music in my itunes library syncs successfuly even though I have a lot of space left and I have the 'sync all music' option selected. Any idea? Thanks
While you're correct in that Windows media won't sync to the iPhone (or any i-device), the OP states that all the music is in iTunes. If its in iTunes, it would no longer be in Windows media format since it would have been transcoded to whatever the user sets as their import preference (AAC, mp3, etc.), and once that is done then the media should be able to sync to the iPhone just fine.
To Steph, do the missing songs play OK in iTunes? If not then they could be corrupted in some way. If they play fine in iTunes but don't sync, are they unchecked in iTunes? They won't sync to your iPhone if it is set to ignore unchecked items. Finally, if these are iTunes purchases, are they protected format? (i.e. m4p files) If so, is your computer authorized to play them? (you'd know if you try to play them in iTunes, it would prompt you for the account password if not authorized) -
How can I force Itunes to show me the missing music in my library?
How can I force Itunes to show me the missing music in my library? Somwhere I found that if you Select all, Ctrl-I it would do it. But it did not help. I need to find the broken ones! Help!
Create a new, regular playlist named All music.
Drag everything under Library > Music to this playlist.
Create a new Smart playlist.
Match all rules;
Playlist is Music
Playlist is not All music. This contains all songs that cannot be found -
"Missing files" NOT actually missing
I had some drive problems that during play and syncing made iTunes mark many of my files "missing". With the working drive, these tracks are not actually missing - double-clicking on each one will refresh its view. The problem is that iTunes seems satisfied with its 'missing' status for each, such that 'next track' and ipod-syncing assume those files don't need to be checked again.
In other words, despite no real problems with file access, I can only get iTunes to refresh its view of those missing tracks by double-clicking each one, which is completely unworkable, given the thousands it thinks are missing.
I've seen other variants of missing file problems but not this. Can I get iTunes to refresh its view of those files? The file locations *have not changed*
I'm pretty sure this is new behavior, previous builds seemed happy to check a file anew if asked in any way (e.g. 'next').
Windows 2000This is exactly my problem as well. The MP3's are still in the same location with the same names, and I can't deduce why it's only about 40% of the total files unlinked.
This is the second time I've had to repair my Library, and nothing in iTunes makes that easy. If I delete everything it resets my ratings and counts, which is precisely what I want to avoid. If I re-import the music, I end up with duplicate files with extra numbers.
I did the whole ITL/XML refresh in the support section, then it gives me this "missing" headache. iTunes already knows which Artist folder to start looking in for each song... strcmp() anyone???
In my security efforts I have disabled my system from launching any script files with double-click, so while I would be happy to try Otto's JavaScript method... It shouldn't be too much to ask the iTunes team for a "Resolve Missing Files" button.
Even kinder would be the ability to make the iPod the master list, and have iTunes be on the receiving end of the sync. But I can see the i's rolling when that comes to purchased content.
It's wonderful when things work. -
TS3430 Missing music, I had close to 700 songs and now there is only in the 300's
NOT ABLE TO LOCATE MISSING SONGS ? I 'm running Windows 8 , I've tried to do a search for Music folders, also searched in ITunes , looked in my recycle Bin "NOTHING"
before my music went missing I was trying to download load music into my Ipod nano, which was un successful. it seems to be most of all my Beatle's songs
Please help me to find the missing music.
Thank youThanks - having looked up XFA I now understand this so have to ask a supplementary but important question before I consider spendign more money - if I had a tablet with Windows 8.1 installed would Adobe reader be able to open an XFA file on that or is it a problem across all versions on mobile platforms?
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