Songs in Windows Explorer

When I'm in iTunes/Music - I can see all the songs I've downloaded and the album artwork,etc. But when I go into Windows Explorer/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music - I don't see all the songs. How do I make sure all of the songs in iTunes, that I've downloaded, are in Windows Explorer?
Thanks

iTunes stores the music in a library..
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
Accessing files in libraries especially covered by digital rights is something Apple specialises in making obscure.
http://osxdaily.com/2013/02/16/itunes-library-location/

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What will happen to the organization of library if I removed the songs from windows explorer? Will iTunes automatically updated without all the deleted songs, or it will indicate 'missing location'? Any fast ways to clear this 'missing location' songs?

What will happen to the organization of library if I removed the songs from windows explorer?
Background: I found it easier to identify duplicated songs in windows explorer as the songs will be renamed .... 1.mp3, thus enabling me to remove the duplicated songs; unlike in iTunes where I know the trick of showing duplicate songs, but you don't know which one is the one with 1 at the end of the file name.
Will iTunes automatically update the library without all the deleted songs, or will it indicate 'missing location' songs? Any fast ways to clear this 'missing location' songs by highlighting them all and delete all at one go?
Thanks.

One way is to use iTunes Folder Watch with its option to check for dead tracks on start up.
Another option is with a set of Lost & Found playlists.
Lost & Found
Create a playlist called Found, select everything in Music and drag it into the Found playlist. Create a smart playlist called Lost matching All the rules Playlist is Music and Playlist is not Found. Your lost tracks will be in this playlist. You can delete them all with a Ctrl-A to select them and Shift-Delete to remove them.
You can then delete the Lost & Found playlists.
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I downloaded music from the internet and edited it in Itunes. How do I keep the details of the song in windows explorer?

So basically I downloaded music from the internet and edited the artist, album, album art and all that stuff on Itunes. But when I go back to windows explorer, i dont have those details

Possibilities are that you are working with copies of the originals in which case it is only the copies that get updated, or that the songs are in .wav format and cannot carry a tag, or are in some other format and didn't include a tag so iTunes hasn't created one even though it has recorded details internally, or that there are mp3 files with multiple tags. iTunes doesn't cope well with multiple tags (despite these conforming to standards) and in this case may be making changes to one copy while Windows Explorer continues to show unchanged data from another. Use a 3rd party tag tool to inspect a problem album, or select the tracks and use Right-click > Convert ID3 Tags > None two or three times to strip out the embedded tags, then use Convert ID3 Tags > v2.3 to recreate them.
Note the process of cleaning and rewriting the tags will remove any embedded art. You can use my script CreateFolderArt before and after converting the tags to preserve and then embed the artwork, provided that you don't store songs from different albums in the same folder. Test a single track or album first to make sure the process has the desired result and only apply where needed.
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Converted songs from Windows Media Player to itunes show up in the library but will not play

I just installed itunes for the purpose of converting my Windows Media Player library to itunes. I went through the install and added the music folder. itunes went through the conversion process overnight and all of my songs appear in the music library. However some songs will play properly and if you open them in windows explorer they are in a folder called my music/downloads and are mpeg files. Other songs that are listed in the music library and appear to have been converted will not play. When you click on these songs that won't play it appears to be playing in the progress bar on top, but no sound comes out and the EQ visualizer shows nothing. When you open these songs in Windows explorer they are located in a folder: my music\i tunes\itunes media\music and they are a .AAC audio file type. What went wromg in this conversion process? Why is itunes putting these files in two different locations? Why will these files not fully convert and play?

This is also what I suspected but why would the songs go through conversion, show up in the library, and then not play? Apple support even says "itunes for Windows cannot import or play WMA files that are protectd." Yet the imported song is sitting in the library and when you play it the song is listed and the diamond advances - but no sound.
Also, any tips on how to see if a WMA file is protected by DRM?
Thank you for your response.

Cannot see files in Windows Explorer, but iTunes still plays 'em

hi all,
I have all my music files on an external hard drive. Up until this morning, I could browse the files on the external drive using Windows Explorer. Now the iTunes Music folder appears empty when I click on it, and even says 0kbs when I right-click Properties.
But ... iTunes still plays the files fine, and when I right-click Get Info in iTunes, it gives me the correct file path to my external hard drive. When I right-click Show Song in Windows Explorer, it shows me the correct file, yet when I click back up on the root iTunes Music folder, it still shows up empty!
Any clues? This is most frustrating, as I just got a new laptop and am trying to get my iTunes library back on there.
thanks

Sorry for the double post.
But i should also add that when i go to Edit Preferences and go to iPod and change anything i want to change. Once the ipod is disconnected, it doesnt save and it all goes back to the normal settings.
Thanks again.

Unable to delete songs from IPOD except through Windows Explorer

hello,
I have a first gen 1 gb Ipod Nano ver Ver 1.3.1 modem #
ma352ll.
About a week ago i tried to free up some space on my ipod by removing some songs. Since I began using my ipod I have just felt more comfortable manually managing my songs. So what i would normally do is simply delete the song from the music folder on my ipod and it is usually gone. (I know that simply deleting from a playlist does not delete from ipod). When I tried deleting some songs I found that the available space on my ipod did not change and obviously could nto add any more songs. When I went into windows explorer, in the music folder for my ipod, I i found the songs I wanted to delete (they were large files because they were podcasts). When I deleted the file from windows explorer the space was freed up on my ipod.
I updated itunes and restored my ipod. I am not using itunes 7. Today I tried adding 7 podcasts to my ipod manually thru itunes and only 5 show up in my music folder, however, i can find all 7 in windows explorer AND all 7 in the playlists I added them to. They play perfectly fine when I play them, but obviously if I tried to delete the 2 suspect files from my playlist they would still be hidden somewhere on my ipod and I can only delete them through windows explorer.
I am not sure what to do at this point, is there anybody who can shed some light on what I am doing wrong or if this is a known issue with itunes and and 1st gen nanos. It's getting annoying to have to play each file in winamp from windows explorer to find the song titles I want to delete and keep the rest. The folders show up as F00, F001, etc... and the songs show up as QVRD.mp3. I havew to play the file QVRD.mp3 throguh winamp so the name of the song comes up so I know if that is the hidden file or one of the others thats how up in itunes that I want to keep. Any ideas out there?

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

"Show in Windows Explorer" option for song not working

I have the latest verson of iTunes 11.0.1 but have had this problem for awhile
Whenever I want to delete a song from iTunes, I usually delete the file as well. To do this, I'll right-click on the song & select "Show in Windows Explorer". However, the majority of the time I get the error message saying:
"Location is not available
C:\....\....\My Music is not accessible.
Access is denied."
Every once & awhile it will work fine though & send me to the song in the Music folder. Any idea how to fix this?

A system restore fixed the problem.
I'm guessing the problem was caused by installing and uninstalling replacements (file browers) for Windows Explorer. Even though they were uninstalled and Explorer was running fine, iTunes had this problem.

Export song details to windows explorer

I am trying to make the song details such as album name and artist show up in the media properties of the itunes media folder in windows explorer in windows 8.1. All the information shows in iTunes, and although I have consolidated the library and ticked Keep Media Folder Organised under Edit > Preferences > Advanced, the information is not showing. In explorer nothing is Read only and the "Allow this file to have contents indexed in addition to file" check box is ticked for all songs. The only songs that I am having this problem with are ones that have been imported from a CD.
Thanks!

MeerCat Man,
iTunes does not process tags for WAV files. It stores the Artist, Album, etc in the library (and displays them in the normal fashion) but they are not part of the file and will not be available if the file is viewed outside of iTunes. Pls consider converting the WAV files to AIFF, which has the same full uncompressed PCM encoding as WAV, but also allows tags and artwork to be embedded in the file.
Regarding the Convert ID3 Tag command, right-click the iTunes library entry of the MP3 song, and the command will appear in the contextual menu. (It will not appear when you right-click the library entry of a WAV file, for reasons that are apparent per the previous paragraph.)
Let us know how it goes.

Load song information from iTunes to Windows-Explorer file

Hi, sorry but my english isn't very good (you can also wirte in german)
I have a lot of Songs in my iTunes Libery and i change since 4years the Song information (name, artiste, album, genere...) on iTunes.
Now i don't know, how can i load all these song information to the original file from the Windows-Explorer.
How can i do that, did you know any software witch can transfer all these "Information" and overwirte the information from the original file.
Thanks for any answer!

MuddyMay wrote:
Can anyone answer this question for me? I am very frustrated with this issue. I had a lot of family members give me itunes gift cards for Christmas so that I could purchase appropriate songs for slideshows that I make for grandchildren and other family members. I cannot get any of the songs into my slideshows as it says that they are mp4's. Someone told me that they have to be mp3's and then someone told me that I could convert them to mp3s within itunes and export them to my slideshows. I am not selling the slideshows, only doing this as a hobby and am now upset that I spent so much time and money on songs I cannot use. Is this true, I can never use them in my slideshows? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Depends what they are. If you purchased .m4p files, be aware that they contain Apple-proprietary DRM "protection" that prevents their use in non-Apple programs. If you purchased .m4a files, you can use iTunes to convert them to MP3.
For future reference, since you plan to use your music for multiple purposes, the most compatible format, by far, is MP3. Make sure that all music you purchase or rip is in MP3 format.

Windows PARTIALLY reconises iPOD - Yes to iTunes, No to Windows Explorer...

Right, I've read all of the posts on the fourms about connection to Windows, but this one is slightly different.
My ipod nano (4gb), has been working just fine for a couple of months (has just been replaced by Apple). I use it primarily for music through iTunes, but also sometimes as a portable hard drive.
All of iTunes and music is stored on my PC at home, but I also connect nearly every day to the PC's at my university.
Ok - so I'm sitting right now at the uni with my ipod connected (to charge), and the uni machines immediately pick it up and add it as a device. It is currently showing in Windows Explorer, and I can view it, edit it, and access all of the information that is currently on it - no problem.
The problem happened yesterday at home. For the first time ever, when connected my PC no longer recognises it properly. When you connect it initially, you get the "new device" sound from Windows, and the "new hardware" icon in the system tray pops fine. If I have Windows explorer open, it shows the Ipod fine, and allocates it a drive letter.
HOWEVER, after about 5 or 6 seconds, the ipod entry in Windows Explorer disappears again, never to be seen again. From this point on, it is inaccessible through Windows explorer.
FURTHERMORE, iTunes still picks it up fine! Even after it has disappeared from Windows explorer, it is still sitting there in the left hand menu of iTunes just fine. I can still access and update ok within iTunes - from the iTunes point of view, there doesn't seem to be any problem at all.
Therefore I am extremely confused.
It has been a couple of weeks since I last used the ipod with my home machine. The ONLY thing that has changed, is the SP2 updates which the machine automatically downloaded and updated. Therefore, I am concerned that this is the direct cause. I use Norton Internet Security 2006 on my machine, and it kicks up all sorts of fuss, if you don't have Windows updater set to automatic. I am aware of several Windows updates that it is has downloaded automatically (which you can see installing during the shut-down sequence).
* I can eliminate my apple data cable, as it is working fine on the PC that I am using right now.
* I can eliminate the ipod itself, as again, this is working fine with the PC that I am using right now.
* I can eliminate my USB ports on my home machine, as they too work fine with several other flash sticks connected to them.
* I have NOT downloaded or installed the recent 23.6.06 ipod updater which seems to be causing everyone lots of bother!
If I disconnect and reconnect the ipod, Windows Explorer, then briefly picks it up again, but then loses it again after about 6 seconds!
Also - the ipod is picked up fine (when connected) in Device Manager. It is listed under the "disk drives" icon, and when probed, Device Manager claims that it is working properly.
Also - the ipod is listed under the "safely remove hardware" icon in the sys tray. It simply isn't given a drive letter, which is the only apparent problem.
I remain CONFUSED, as it to what is partially blocking my ipod - it is clearly linked to Windows Explorer, and my guess is that some sort of security feature is causing it not to have a drive letter. I have Norton in charge of my security settings, and have mostly disengaged Windows in-house security settings.
I would be VERY, VERY grateful if someone can please help me, or let me know if they have suffered the same problem, and identified the resolution.
If I can't find an answer - I will try the 5 R's - which I didn't have time to do yesterday, and update if this is successful.
Thanks
Compaq PIV 3GHZ Windows XP Pro 512MB / 120GB / USB 2.0 / Firewire

Can I ask you another question? (separate)
When using itunes - I had thought that you could literally dump ALL of your music into the itunes library and purely select what you want to appear on you ipod, by selecting the check-boxes, next to each track listed in the main library!?
I have my ipod full all of the time - and I would like to think that I can add more to my itunes library than actually appears on the ipod itself. However, I find that when I add a new folder to the itunes library - if I update my track listings by unchecking the older stuff in the itunes library that I want to remove from the ipod, and leaving the new stuff checked - when you click on update ipod - it does not delete the old "unchecked in itunes" stuff as I want it, and merely tries to add the new tracks. Because the ipod is already full - it cannot continue, and tried to offer a compromise of adding as much as it can etc etc.
The only way I have found to remedy this so far, is to physically "clear" all of the unwanted songs from the itunes library (but keeping the files where they are located on the HD), and then adding the new tracks/folders - and then itunes DOES delete the removed songs from the library, and adds the new ones.....
Is there a better way of doing this?
hi Richard!
Why also then, will she not show up on my home PC
(with the itunes installed), but show up perfectly
fine in Windows Explorer on the uni PC's?
yeah, i'm wondering about that too. the settings
in that preference tab are (mostly) stored on the
ipod itself, which is how if you switch an ipod to
"manually manage" on one PC, it connects manually to
a different PC also. so, initially, we're going to be
trying to work out which PCs (home or Uni) you're
getting the anomalous behavior on.
perhaps take a note of what preferences you've got
engaged when you're plugged into one of the uni PCs,
too? that might help with the untangling process.
keep us posted.
love, b

Ipod 160gb does not show up in itunes or in windows explorer

I bought an ipod classic a month ago and transferred my 40 gb of music from my old ipod (same model) over to it. There were no problems until yesterday all the sudden the classic decided to stop working. it plays songs but only when it feels like it and does not show up in windows explorer or itunes. i spent hours on apple looking through the troubleshooting stuff but nothing worked. All i see under my device manager is WPD Filesystem Volume Driver with a yellow box and an exclamation point. My old ipod classic connects to itunes just fine. What do i need to do to fix this? also the broken classic does charge on the computer and say "connected - eject before disconnecting". Please help.

Edit: It is actually showing up in win explorer as a Removeable Drive but if i try to click on it to browse the files it freezes completely. It still doesn't show up in itunes.

Click wheel ipod freezes up windows explorer/delayed write error

Sorry for the length of this, but I have been dealing with this for a while.
I have two 5G 20GB iPod's that I can't sync to either of my computers.
I usually sync it on my desktop, which is a P4 2.4Ghz, 512MB, XP PRO, MoBo is Asus P4C800, I would connect them with the firewire connection directly from the back of the motherboard.
My iPod's Hard Drive failed. So I replaced it with another Toshiba Drive (MKGAL2006). It didn't have the apple logo on it, but I read that it really didn't matter. When I plugged it in, it immediately detected at first, but when it was auto-updating music, it would get to about 2/3rds of my music library (13 G's) and then I would get an unknown error -124 from iTunes. I would then eject the ipod from itunes, and eject it from the windows menu. When I would check to see what music made it onto my ipod, none would be listed. When I reconnected it, it showed in itunes that I had 9 Gigs of "Other" data on it, but none of it was music. I would then set the ipod to manual update. This locked up the computer, and wouldn't unlock until I unplugged the ipod from the firewire cable. The ipod would then lock up the computer the second I plugged it in, so I put it in disk mode. I would then need to restore my ipod when I plugged it back in. I was then able to upload music to it, however, I couldn't transfer more than 25 songs at a time without getting a "Unknown error -124" from itunes or "Delayed write failure" from windows. I was getting pretty far along with this system, until I finally got a BSOD, with a memory failure error, and memory dump. But there was no program specified. Now, when I plug it in, it shows as removable drive (E:), autoplay will run for 10 minutes, and itunes becomes unresponsive, as will my computer. When I right click on the ipod in my computer, it says the drive cannot be accessed or is unresponsive.
I tried my girlfriends ipod after this on her profile in windows. It followed the same process, during auto sync it would get to a 2 GB's of data, and then get error -124 in itunes. It was showing up as the name of her ipod, however in my computer. When I ejected, switched to manual, then reconnected, it now shows as removable disk in My computer.
I then tried it on my TOSHIBA laptop (1.5 Ghz Celeron, xp home, 504 MB memory,) through the USB cable and fresh install of itunes (7.41).
Mine made a connection, I had to restore it, and it began to sync up music, it got to 2.5 Gigs, and then I got a windows explorer message saying there is no disc in the drive, please insert one. I was able to eject the IPOD (as it was listed in itunes, but I named it something else when I restored it)from itunes, but ejecting it from windows froze up the system tray, and after waiting 15 minutes, I eventually just unplugged it.
I tried my girlfriends ipod, and it was able to install in windows, but won't get listed in itunes, but itunes is responsive.
I am very frustrated with this. Please let me know if there is any vital information with this that I am missing
Thanks in advance.

Allright,
So I tried sticking my girlfriends ipod back into the laptop through USB for a couple hours. iTunes locked up, and the iPod got hot. So I disconnected it manually, and I got a unhappy face, that wouldn't reset no matter what. In frustration, I just left everything alone for a couple days.
I found out online that people were having success with these unhappy ipod faces by slapping the back of the case after they hard reset the ipod (press menu and select). So I did just that. And it worked. The ipod was back up and running. I plugged it into the laptop, and it updated itself. iTunes warned me that it was preselected for another library, so to add any music, it would go into another playlist as a secondary library. However, it only added music that wasn't on there before. So Boom, I got one iPod working.
The one I had, whose HDD I replaced, wasn't so lucky. I was still getting stuck restoring it, then hooking it up, and it updated several gigs of music (very slowly) and then would freeze up itunes, and I would have to disconnect. After having read on some forums (I highly recommend you read http://www.notpopular.com/blogs/josh/2005/12/24/replacing-the-hardrive-of-an-ipo d, the comments taught me a lot) that reconnecting the IDE cable on their hard drives got rid of the unhappy faces and folder icons. So I cracked open my ipod, and replaced the replacement hard drive with the original one from apple. SOB actually worked. I put the ipod back together, and hooked it into the USB. It updated about 3000 songs, and showed that sync was complete. I unhooked it, but found there was no music listed under songs. Weird. So I set it into disk mode (reset with menu and select, and at the apple logo hold play and select) and plugged back in, I ejected after 30 or so songs, and found that those 30 songs were listed. I know that disk mode works. So I hook it back in, and I am happy to say that my ipod is working with the original hard drive. I didn't even have to pay the $54 bucks it cost for another drive. I also learned about diagnostic mode ,that isn't written about in the official boards (http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/ipodsupport/diagnosticmode/index.shtml)
I can check my hard drive, and memory, all sort of groovy tests on there.
And at this point, I am checking out my 3rd generation ipod that I long ago gave up as a hard drive problem. I reseated the hard drive connection and put it into diagnostic mode, which verified my hard drive was fine. So we'll see how that goes.

Ipod mini does not appear in windows explorer or I tunes

Two days ago, I purchased an IPod mini for my daughter to take to college. Directions seemed certainly clear enough to connect.
Unfortunately, I have spent two days trying to transfer music from itunes, on three different computers (two of of which are about a year old) utilizing at various times all of the USB ports available for use between the three computers.
I have updated windows and the Itunes and Ipod updater software for all of the computers.
I have reset and restored the Ipod numerous times.
On my laptop, the Ipod appears in Windows explorer but not under "Source" in Itunes. On another computer (a 3 year old Dell) it neither appears in Itunes or Windows explorer.
AT no time, does ITUNES automatically start when it is connected through a USB port.
Needless to say, I am frustrated and sorely disappointed that connecting this has become so difficult.
Before returning and giving up on the Apple, I thought I would try this discussion forum to see if anyone had any additional ideas.
Thanks!

Thanks for your recommendation! I did, at one point, try to get the apple logo to appear but it never did and I'm not sure why.
Meanwhile, we exchanged it for a different one.
This time it worked but only after the shop I bought it from updated the software for us.
The ipod, however, still doesn't automatically start itunes when it is connected; for some reason. Itunes has to be started, and the the Ipod needs to be connected. After a short while, it then appears under source and songs can be downloaded.
But, after all that, it now works!!!!!

IPod Shuffle doesn't show in Windows Explorer

My iPod Shuffle worked normally until yesterday, when my friend borrow... It shown in Windows Explorer until iTunes opened and tried to update songs. After that, I got a message "OK to disconnect", then the iPod disappeared in Windows Explorer, iTunes did recognize it but couldn't make any changes like updating songs or changing settings. When I try to enable disk use, iTunes got me an error "The disk could not be read or written to" !?
Used iPod Shuffle Reset Utility. No luck....
Any help?
Thanks a lot!!!!
Windows XP Pro

try this
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ipodshuffleresetutility10forwindows.html
or
Solution for iPod shuffel 512 not working (Green and Amber light blinking ), recommended
(This is an apple bug - thousands have the same problem
If the problem of green and amber light is still there with some people pl try this
http://www.manythings.org/shuffle/
1 set your ipod preferences on max data usage as shown on site
2 set off the option that open ipod in itunes when connected
3 get rebuild.py from net (exe) and put it on your base directory of ipod and run it, info is given on above site,
every time u edit the songs directory hit the above file
If you get solved mail on [email protected]
thanks
ENJOY_!!!

What is "Recycler" in Windows Explorer Window?

Cleaned up all duplicates in my music folder before loading iTunes 7-- updated library and the nice feature of show all duplicates revealed 899 duplicates. While some of the duplicates are merely duplicates of songs artists have on several of their albums, some duplicates took me to the Recycler folder in Windows Explorer, a new folder created in my music folder.
This Recycler folder reveals 1,796 files (almost 8 gigs of space!). What exactly is the Recycler??? All the files are labeled Dj####. Some are WMA files I think that were unable to convert to ACC format. I had no luck with the iTunes help file or a web search. Does iTunes pull from the Recycle Bin somehow the most recently discarded files??? Or, more the answer, these are those files, both converted and left as WMA, that iTunes processed and dumped here, almost like a temp files folder? At any rate, can I simply delete the Recycler??
This should be an easy answer-- thanks for your help!!!
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Recycler is how Windows labels the folder used by the Windows Recycle Bin.

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