PLEASE HELP! Exclamation point next to songs that can "no longer be found"
Here is the deal:
I have Itunes 6 on my non-Mac computer. I saved about 1000 mp3s from CDs I had onto my hard drive. All of them appeared in my Library and I could play any of them by simply double clicking the entry.
Now if I double click on SOME of these songs, an exclamation mark appears next to the listing and a message appears with this: "This song could not be played since the original file could not be found"...
I then have to find it on my computer and import it again... the problem is that this affects about 25% of the songs in my library.
Can anyone help?
The first thing I would do is search for all your MP3 files. Bring up the search window (its in the main menu in XP). Select "Files and Folders", Put in the search string "*.mp3" and let it look through all hard drives. This will list all it finds and may take a few minutes to complete.
Also, have you done the "Consolidate Library" function. This, I believe, will move all your MP3s to a central location ("My Documents\My Music\Itunes" ?) which might explain why your library cannot see them anymore.
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import java.util.Map;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
public class Translate
public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException
if (args.length != 2)
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System.exit(1);
try
HashMap words = ReadHashMapFromFile(args[0]);
System.out.println(ProcessFile(words, args[1]));
catch (Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
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map = new HashMap();
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finally
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return(map); //returning a reference to local variable is safe in java (unlike C/C++)
* Process the given file
* @returns String contains the whole file.
private static String ProcessFile(Map words, String filename) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
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try
in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
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return s.substring(0,0).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
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hello ahoy
hi yo-ho-ho
pardon me avast
excuse me arrr
yes aye
my me
friend me bucko
sir matey
madam proud beauty
miss comely wench
where whar
is be
are be
am be
the th'
you ye
your yer
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Here is the interface i just build
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class boy extends JFrame
JTextArea englishtxt;
JLabel head,privatetxtwords;
JButton translateengtoprivatewords;
Container c1;
public boy()
super("HAKIMADE");
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
setBackground(Color.white);
setLocationRelativeTo(null);
c1 = getContentPane();
head = new JLabel(" English to private talk Translator");
englishtxt = new JTextArea("Type your text here", 10,50);
translateengtoprivatewords = new JButton("Translate");
privatetxtwords = new JLabel();
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headlabel.add(head);
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englishtxtpanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER,10,40));
englishtxtpanel.add(englishtxt);
JPanel panel1 = new JPanel();
panel1.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
panel1.add(headlabel,BorderLayout.NORTH);
panel1.add(englishtxtpanel,BorderLayout.CENTER);
JPanel translateengtoprivatewordspanel = new JPanel();
translateengtoprivatewordspanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER,10,40));
translateengtoprivatewordspanel.add(translateengtoprivatewords);
JPanel panel2 = new JPanel();
panel2.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
panel2.add(translateengtoprivatewordspanel,BorderLayout.NORTH);
panel2.add(privatetxtwords,BorderLayout.CENTER);
JPanel mainpanel = new JPanel();
mainpanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
mainpanel.add(panel1,BorderLayout.NORTH);
mainpanel.add(panel2,BorderLayout.CENTER);
c1.add(panel1, BorderLayout.NORTH);
c1.add(panel2);
public static void main(final String args[])
boy mp = new boy();
mp.setVisible(true);
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public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException
if (args.length != 2)
System.err.println("usage: Translate wordmapfile textfile");
System.exit(1);
try
HashMap words = ReadHashMapFromFile(args[0]);
System.out.println(ProcessFile(words, args[1]));
catch (Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
// static helper methods
* Reads a file into a HashMap. The file should contain lines of the format
* "key\tvalue\n"
* @returns a hashmap of the given file
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
private static HashMap ReadHashMapFromFile(String filename) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
BufferedReader in = null;
HashMap map = null;
try
in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
String line;
map = new HashMap();
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null)
String[] fields = line.split("
t", 2);
if (fields.length != 2) continue; //just ignore "invalid" lines
map.put(fields[0], fields[1]);
finally
if(in!=null) in.close(); //may throw IOException
return(map); //returning a reference to local variable is safe in java (unlike C/C++)
* Process the given file
* @returns String contains the whole file.
private static String ProcessFile(Map words, String filename) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
BufferedReader in = null;
StringBuffer out = null;
try
in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
out = new StringBuffer();
String line = null;
while( (line=in.readLine()) != null )
out.append(SearchAndReplaceWordsInText(words, line)+"\n");
finally
if(in!=null) in.close(); //may throw IOException
return out.toString();
* Replaces all occurrences in text of each key in words with it's value.
* @returns String
private static String SearchAndReplaceWordsInText(Map words, String text)
Iterator it = words.keySet().iterator();
while( it.hasNext() )
String key = (String)it.next();
text = text.replaceAll("\\b"key"
b", (String)words.get(key));
return text;
* @returns: s with the first letter capitalized
String capitalize(String s)
return s.substring(0,0).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
}... here's the head of my pirate_words_map.txt
hello ahoy
hi yo-ho-ho
pardon me avast
excuse me arrr
yes aye
my me
friend me bucko
sir matey
madam proud beauty
miss comely wench
where whar
is be
are be
am be
the th'
you ye
your yer
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Hi!
I turned to this forum for help and thought someone might be the one to answer this question. I have a 1st and 2nd generation Nano. I bought the 2nd generation from Apple after I was assured by them that I could connect the 2nd one to the same iTunes that is already used by the 1st one, on my laptop.
It doesn't matter which iPod is connected, it doesn't matter if I close and then reopen iTunes or if I just leave it open and then connect my (either one) Nano for an update:
I get those d@&& exclamation points next to a BUNCH of songs (these are either downloaded or from my CD's). One time it was 186 songs that had the exclamation points and when you click on it, iTunes says it lost the "info". I have not deleted these, moved them, ..... this is what happens when I am in my library. . . ANY IDEAS????????? please?????
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