Problem w/iMovie if you renamed a soundtrack that was used in a project. Will appear a warning sign and will not sound even if you replace or drag a new soundtrack.

Question

Let's say you have a project in iMovie and after you include your imported videos, pictures, etc, then you add a couple of soundtrack songs from your iTunes Library.  It works fine!.
If for some reason, later on, you decide to rename the soundtrack song in your iTunes library, when you return to iMovie it will display a yellow warning sign at the begining of the soundtrack or (voice over file) and it will not play the song. You cannot hear it.
Of course I guess it is due to a "missing" reference (as you renamed the one that you iniitally used). 
The logical step would be to either deleted or replace that song in your iMovie project and drag the one with the "new name" or even a newone or different one.
It still not playing or you can not hear the audio.
Note that from this point on, any song that you want to add to your project it will simply not sound.  If you have in this project other soundtrack songs that were not renamed, it will still sound in your project. I mean, you can still hearing all those that were previously working and you did not make the "mistake" of renaming or modifying some information of your song.  BUT, ANY sound, song, voice over, that you want to include, add, replace, etc.  WILL SIMPLY NOT WORK.
It is like you have been denied to add or replace or re-arrange any sound from now on ON THIS SPECIFIC project as you may create new project and those song will work fine in the new project.
The problem is that take a lot of work if you have to start your project from zero again. (The "Duplicate Project" option will simply not work as it "duplicate" the problem).
In other project I was working, now I realize that did happen exactly the same, but a that time it was related with still pictures. (I guess I changed "something" or deleted one of the still pictures) and from that point on, any still picture that I wanted to include in the project, It allows me to drag it but when you try to play it, iMovie just ignore it.  It appears in the project sequence but simply is not displayed in the movie.

Answer 1

Hello tmock, 
Welcome to the forum. It certainly would be an odd experience to attempt a common occurrence such as a simple exchange of the headphones you received as a gift for another item, and have it almost result in authority involvement!  It sounds like the sales associate might have made a mistake processing the transaction, and I can understand not wanting to leave your gift behind with the uncertainty that you would ever hear from anyone again. I truly apologize for any unpleasant experience this may have caused. 
I would be happy to look into this further to see if I can help you get the PS4 you wanted as an exchange, so if you could send me the information of the store you visited, I would appreciate it very much. Once I have this information, I will follow up with you as soon as possible.
Thank you for visiting the forum to share your feedback, and I look forward to continuing to work with you. 
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