So my song file actually is corrupted...

Ok, so I got my new macpro, I thought everything was working great, until I tried to move some audio and it disappeared completely.
bah...
Ok.. so-- I have approx 100 tracks of audio + software instruments.... What is the best way to copy over my data to a new song file, audio placement, note events, plugins, and automation (for plugins too)..
This feels like a nightmare, but... maybe someone here has some advice.
I did try the whole select all & apple-c and then apple-v in a new song.. The result was ugly, all my audio parts overlapped ontop of each other.
-patrick

It's so incredibly evil.
all i can think is that you must have been very bad in a past life...
try:
select all you midi tracks and make them start at the beginning of the file and end at the end of the song.
make midi files of your audio tracks. (duplicate the track and put a midi region on it.
move automation to region.
select all midi regions and export as midi file. your tempo info should go with it.
save each of your tracks as csts (channel strip settings)
export your audio as OMF (preserves interleaved)
import your midi and then load up your csts.
import your audio.
move region data to automation.
i really think you should stop work in this file - you are just going to go from bad to worse. errr....maybe that should be from worse to explosion.

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I just bought a new laptop and transferred over all of the songs. But I checked the ones that skip in Itunes in another music player and they work fine there - the files are not corrupted - and like I said, even a brand new song I just bought skips. The priority for Itunes is set to High. This comptuer has very high specs (it's a Lenovo IdeaPad) and the processing performance never even goes above 10%. I am a Disc Jockey and this is a severe problem. Please help...
If downgrading to a previous version of Itunes is the answer, how do I go about doing that? I'm currently running 10.5

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Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).
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I've had, I think, my first problem with downloading a song from iTunes music store. The last song on the album is currupted, for lack of better words. Plays like any other itunes song, but literally skips, just like the old albums I used to listen to. Initially I thought the mac was being stressed/overutilized and resources were thin, so I closed down all programs and tried again. Same exact thing, same place/time.
I forgot about that song until this week when I played it again and exact problem happened again. Its only this one song.
Is there a way to get a song that appears to have been corrupted on download re-downloaded without having to pay for it again?
Thanks
PowerMac G4 1.42 duel Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Tell the iTMS about the corrupted song using the form on this page.
Usually they will either refund or tell you when the corrected track is available for download again (if the file indeed is corrupted).
Hope this helps.
M
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HT1725 I bought an album and one of the songs won't download. It says that the file may be corrupt and to 'check available downloads' from the store menu.

I bought an album and one of the songs won't download. It says that the file may be corrupt and to 'check available downloads' from the store menu.

Hi Stimulator7
You may find some helpful information in the following link:
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i downloaded the version of i tunes 7.5 and now when i try and play my songs they have a little exclamation point next to them and it says something like; "could not locate this file would u like to locate it?" i click yes and it takes me to My Music folder. When I click on the folder that holds the folders with my songs that i bought in them nothing appears. I bought a new song on i-tunes as a test and it plays fine. Did something go wrong in the download? I tried dowloading it again and nothing changed. I am afraid to completely unistall I-Tunes because it might get rid of all my songs, i don't know what will happern when i plug in my i-pod nano (newest edition). I am afraid it will sync and delete all my songs on it.
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Hi Guys,
I want to be able to delete actual song files from my external hard drive as well as from my iTunes library in one easy, lazy step, via the iTunes window. I am not interested in finding and manually deleting the files through my external hard drive.
When I hit delete it only deletes the song from my iTunes library but not the actual destination music file aswell (from my external hard drive). I am aware this is because my external hard drive is not the original "Music\iTunes\iTunes Music" destination that the apple crew have designed and so I am not offered the option of sending the file to the recycle bin or "trashing it" when I hit the delete key (this permanently deletes the file).
I am also aware that I can find the music file destinations and delete them through the iTunes window by hitting "CTRL & R" or by the "show in windows explorer" command. I am not interested in these options either.
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Labia.

Camoracer,
You are right. Pardon me. The majority of the music that I was trying to delete off my external hard drive was in a separate folder (on the external hard drive), not in the directory specified in my iTunes preference settings.
Problem solved!!!
This should also be a lesson to those who believe a one step delete function (from iTunes library and actual music file) is not possible when the music files are stored on an external hard drive (or other storage medium for that matter). I have read a host of other forums who say a one step delete function is not possible without additional software.. Perhaps these posts were from the authors of the software trying to make a $.
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I searched the forum for an hour-hour and a half, and haven't found anything.
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Since iTunes v8.1 install I lost most of my song files

Since installing v8.1 a few days ago when I open iTunes it shows that I have 1250 songs on 7.54 GB. But, when I try to select a song, a window opens stating; THE SONG COULD NOT BE USED BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL FILE COULD NOT BE FOUND. WOULD YOU LIKE TO LOCATE IT? I click, YES. Next window opens titled; CHOOSE A FILE. My iBook disk selection is highlighted. It indicates that I have only 180 song files. Why does iTunes v8.1, when opened, show me that I have 1250 songs (which is how many there should be) but there are only 180 songs that actually exist and are randomly from various albums? Have I lost all those other songs? And, what do I now do to get back all those songs I paid for from iTunes store and from other music web sites if they are gone?

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My Dilemma:
I'm a songwriter who has been composing songs on Garageband for a couple years now, and i'm pretty familiar with the software. About two weeks ago, my hard drive failed and I had to take my Macbook into the tech department at my school where they replaced my hard drive.
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Hey there,
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If I were to make multiple silence files, it would have to be hundreds of them. That's one of the problems too. I have free time, but I'd like to spend it doing other things!
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I am completely devastated. All of a sudden most of my song files are corrupt. When I click on a song to play it, it plays a different track in my library (as if the song is named incorrectly, which it isn't). Choosing to show the song file in the finder works fine, it shows the original file with the correct naming and correct file size.
But it isn't that song. It's a completely different song which starts wherever in the original song file. When the original song time ends the completely different song continues in the next original song file.
The original song files seem to randomly have been overwritten by other tracks in my library.
Same thing happens if I play the song in a different media player. Copying the file and adding it to a different computer/iTunes turns out the same way... although now it only includes the time and song title of the original track, artist and all other info is gone.
Should I go and kill myself? Or is there the slightest chance of a solution to this mess?
How could this happen? It's so weird.
The worst part of this is that I haven't been able to afford a large backup disk for my music files in quite some time. But for me, with iTunes, it's usually not the disk that has given up on my, it's been the library file. I've surpassed many library crashes but have never been near something as strange as this.
The disk seems to be running without problems or errors.

Thanks for your efforts in helping me out.
It is not a smart playlist. Standard.
Here are some screen shots to display the error.
1. File location when browsing for it in the finder - only two songs from the album available.
2. Songs in Music library - clicking upper left and searching upper right.
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