Now that iTunes Match has hosed my library completely...how do I EASILY get back the albums and songs they didn't match from my hard drive?
iTunes match is a mess. I am not going to go into all the details unless specifically asked but it's useless. Now that I've turned it off I have found that the songs that iTunes could not Match to the iCloud iTunes is no longer able to find! So it wants ME to manually match each song to the location on my hard drive. This is an Apple joke right?
There has got to be a better way! Restore from backup...love to! Will that pull all my music if I was using iTunes Match at the last synch? Help a girl out...I just want my music back.
Sincerely,
And Irish girl who is NOT smiling!
The details are important - you'll have to spill them all, at lest the relevant ones, because this isn't a game of 20 questions. But I'll bite anway -
Are you using iTunes on a Mac or a PC?
iTunes 10 or iTunes 11?
Did you add the files before turning on match, or after? or both (if both, which batch were the missing files in)?
After you turned on match, did you delete your files thinking you no longer need them?
Did you have iTunes set to copy and organize your files, or had you taken the manual route? (the settings are in iTunes Preferences, under "Advanced")
Have you recently renamed your hard drive, or some of your folders, or moved a folder that had music in it?
Does the location of your music library in iTunes Preferences --> Advanced match the actual location of your music?
Right-click one of the missing songs, and choose "Get Info" - does the location of the file match where it really is on the hard drive? If not, what's different?
Do you care about things like play counts, last played dates etc.? If not, you can just re-add all your music files (basically, start over fresh)
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