Stupid me or stupid iTunes?

Greetings --
I'm new to iTunes so forgive me if this is ignorant, but I've scoured these forums and google and can't find an answer.
I just bought my ipod. Loaded up itunes (5 then now version 6) and am trying to move my collection of 400+ CDs into itunes to I can get them on my ipod. They were all ripped from the actual CDs as .wav files and are on a hard drive organized in folders by artist then album, then songs. All are named from CDDB database since I ripped them with CDex.
My problem is that I can't get these to show in iTunes as albums, or artists. When I drag the folder over to the library window I gets thousands and thousands of individual songs and can't see how to make them group up without manually creating a playlist for each one or something. What am I missing here?
What I was hoping was that I could just import the whole thing and have them convert automatically to AAC files (192kbs VBR) on the fly, and have the collection in the itunes folder then.
thanks for anyone who cares to comment.

Todd,
Sorry for the threadjack(people, please post your question in a separate thread), to answer your question.
You can sort songs in your Library several ways. You should see feilds like Name, Artist, and Album up at the top of your window. If you click the Artist feild, you will then sort your library by artist. Same for Album and the others.
To make it easier, you should create Smart playlists. Go to iTunes>File>New Smart Playlist and create a new playlist with the criteria that matches the Album or Artist you want. For example, if you want to create a playlist for the album ABC, create a Smart Playlist and change the first Feild type to Album then type in the name of the Album(should auto-fill after several letters). Then click the OK button. Now a playlist will be created with all the tracks of that album.
Hope that helps a little bit.
Grant

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Stupid slow lag with iTunes 11 on Windows7

Before I mention anything else:
- Running on Windows 7 64-bit with a 1.3GHz processor. My baby's getting old, but my only problems besides iTunes 11 in the past year was some lag playing Skyrim.
- My iTunes library is tiny. We're talking less than 25GB of data altogether, just under 14.5BG of that music.
- My RAM is 4GB: enough to watch a 1080p Blue-Ray rip no problem
- All my Win7 updates are done and good (to my chagrin, cause they take so much space most times)
- My last defrag was last week
- the last time I ran CCleaner on all my drives was last week. I ran it a few times, cause I was also doing some spring cleaning in my file folders.
- C: drive has more than 20GB of free space, iTunes media's on D: (more than 150GB free) but it's been like that since before iTunes v.7
Granted all of this, if I intend to use iTunes to play anything, I can't use any other programs, or attempt to do anything on iTunes while it's playing music. If I shut down all other programs and iTunes is the only thing running, I still get lag clicking a song title on the list.
The display I've got going is just list view, plain and simple. Genius is off, no automatic synching (I don't get wi-fi through the cement wall anyway on my iPod). Playback is nothing fancy.
God forbid I should try to minimize the window, scroll down a playlist, open a program and use it (Notepad for goodness' sake!! Chrome okay, even with just one tab, Word, fine. But Notepad??). Wanna browse the iTunes store? Out of the question. Insta-crash, especially if you're in another country's store. And exit iTunes? HA. Why would you want to do that. Who wants to do that. I have to end the process in my task manager 4 times over as many minutes before it'll quit.
Anyone else seeing this BS, or am I alone in a corner over here? Anyone found a way to fix the lag, freezing, and skipping playback besides reverting to an older version? I'd really like to avoid re-writing my entire library all over again after I just did it.

I forgot to mention 64 bit Windows 7.

Stupid sync flaw on iTunes/iPhone (maybe iPod Touch too)

I rip my DVD collection a lot and add the files to iTunes. When a movie has a long name you can't see it full in your iPhone, that's why i usually name each episode of series as Episode 01, Episode 02 (instead of FULL NAME OF THE MOVIE - EPISODE NUMBER)... and so on. Just to make it easier to select them for playing on iPhone.
The problem is that i have several movie series in my iTunes, and all episodes of these series appear sorted *by name* in my iPhone sync window, i.e. i see only a bunch of Episode names sorted by index number, and nothing else to identify which series they belong to, so i can't see which ones i need to check to sync with my iPhone.
It's more of a suggestion for Apple:
*Add ARTIST column to the iPhone sync Movies window in iTunes.*
Exactly - ARTIST, and not Album/Series name (which is more appropriate for Movies) - this is the second field you can see in iPhone, under the Name - put a Series name and its index number into this field.
I can provide screenshots of both iPhone and iTunes for this problem.

Yes, i did. Thanks again. Now i can see Series name in the iTunes sync window.
But still it would be nice to be able to check specific episodes i want to sync (clickable boxes next to each episode), not just Apple's 1-3-5-10 most recent/least recent/watched/unwatched options... Don't you think?
In fact, i don't understand why Apple didn't make a separate iPod/iPhone column in Library where you could check/uncheck files you want/don't want to sync. why does it have to be in iPod/iPhone window. I mean i understand why calendars, contacts, e-mails have to be where they are in iTunes, but since you already have Music, Movies, Podcasts and so on in your Library, what's the point of this visual separation...
sorry if it's not clear enough what i mean. i'm russian.

Stupid is as Stupid does - a few questions

To avoid being stupid (and not having the time to read all these forum messages/responses)my questions are as follows:
I own a 20GB cap. Ipod and have exceeded its capacity in my ITunes library.
I have today, ordered/purchased a new 80GB IPod.
My questions:
Will my ITunes recognize my new IPOD and permit me to upload my current library to it? Automatically, or will I need to do some kind of special jumbling to accomplish this feat?

"Will my ITunes recognize my new IPOD and permit me to upload my current library to it? Automatically, or will I need to do some kind of special jumbling to accomplish this feat?"
Yes it will. Just connect the new iPod and follow the onscreen instructions to register and name it. It will the connect to iTunes and ask you if you want to update automatically. You can say yes if you want your iPod to sync (update automatically) with iTunes. Or, if you want to update manually or using selected playlists you can choose no and it will default to manual mode and you can choose whatever setting you like.

Stupid is as stupid asks...

Hi I am new and embarrassed to write in the forum asking silly questions. Thing is I am learning all from scratch without help from anyone. I have created a database (have previous knowledge only from Access) and have managed to create a beautiful report from a search filter. This report lines up several records matching what I needed. Now, I want to make the whole report with hyperlinks to a detailed page on each of the records in the report. I have tried using the feature where one can make one column hyperlinked and redirect to a new page, where I am getting all the records again - instead of only getting the record I am clicking on. I have looked and looked in the forums without finding solution and I have tested and tried various methods without luck. I am suspecting that I need some sort of knowledge on how to write a select query with where conditions that can apply to filtering out a record from one report to get another detailed on only one object (i.e. record). :/ Stupid or what?
.. either I am very stupid or the issue very difficult since no one is replying after 23 views on the post
Message was edited by: Hrefna
Hrefna

Thank you Badri I am not used to using the forums and a little naive.
I am using Oracle 10g Express Edition with what I would suppose to be APEX application shell which makes it easy for me to work with the database.
Initial report is created this way:
select     "PROPERTYID_LOOKUP"."PROPERTYID_ID" as "PID",
"PROPERTYID_LOOKUP"."PROPERTYNAME" as "Name",
     "PROPERTYID_LOOKUP"."NOOFBEDS" as "Beds",
     "PROPERTYID_LOOKUP"."NOOFDOUBLEBEDS" as "Double-Beds",
     "PROPERTYID_LOOKUP"."NOOFROOMS" as "Rooms",
     "PROPERTYID_LOOKUP"."NOOFBATHROOMS" as "Bathrooms",
     "PROPERTYID_LOOKUP"."PLACE" as "Place",
     "PROPERTYID_LOOKUP"."COUNTRYID" as "Country",
     "PROPERTYID_LOOKUP"."STATEREGIONID" as "Region",
     "PROPERTYID_LOOKUP"."STARID" as "Stars"
from     "PROPERTYID_LOOKUP" "PROPERTYID_LOOKUP"
where upper(COUNTRYID) like '%' || upper(:P3_SEARCHCOUNTRY) || '%'
and upper(NOOFROOMS)>=upper(:P3_SEARCHROOM)
order by PROPERTYID_LOOKUP.NOOFBEDS ASC, PROPERTYID_LOOKUP.NOOFROOMS DESC, PROPERTYID_LOOKUP.NOOFDOUBLEBEDS DESC, PROPERTYID_LOOKUP.NOOFBATHROOMS DESC
(Never mind that I still am to refine the table - I am on an experiment level)
Then I have edited column attribute for the first column (PROPERTYID_ID) and called it PID and created a column link on it redirecting to a new page. In column link definitions I use :
Name
"PROPERTYID_LOOKUP"."PROPERTYID_ID"
Value
#PID#
after that redirecting to my page 42 which gives me report made out of:
SELECT * FROM PROPERTYID_LOOKUP WHERE PROPERTYID_ID='PID'
.. ofcourse I know this is not what I want since the outcome is wrong when I get all objects listed instead of the one record I clicked on.
I.e. said simple. I want to be able to click on that link in that report that comes out of my search filtered query and that link (when choosing only one record) will redirect me to my page42 where it will only show one detailed record on one object.
Ouch.. hope this was a better explanation.

HT1711 I just bought a stupid nicki minaj album that I didn't wan't to buy and It cost me 15 dollars . Now all my money is GONE and I was hoping is there was ANYWAY I could get my money back, please! It was a stupid mistake, please help

Well the title says it all, I just bought a stupid nicki minaj album that I didn't wan't to buy and It cost me 15 dollars >.< Now all my money is GONE and I was hoping is there was ANYWAY I could get my money back, please! It was a stupid mistake, please help

Well, if you havn't been abusing a previous stupid mistake, try here:
iTunes Store Support
http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html

A simple, but slightly stupid, question...

Hi all
How do I copy from my IPOD to my computer hard drive.
Thought it was just a drag and drop, but that doesn't seem to be doing the trick.
Thanks for the help.

Remember there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.
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Stupid In Design Help language

Stupid In Design Stupid Help is in Arabic.
How the (#$%^) am I supposed to change language of Help?????
How long will it be before Adobe starts serving its hapless customers?

Here's a link to online help in English: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/topics.html
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Erasing all music from iTunes and starting over from an external hard drive

Hello,
I tried moving all my media to an external hard drive to make room on my MacBook Pro and just be able to run the media (ie music movies etc) from the external hard drive when it was connected.
Well this backfired big time probably because I did not follow any sort of instructions.
1st I backed up Finder > music > iTunes > iTunesMedia folder to two seperate external hard drives just in case.
2nd I think (this was back in March 2013) I decided to cut/delete the folder Automatically Add to iTunes and moved it to one of my external hard drives (this folder for some reason contained mostly everythiing that was in the iTunes Media folder).
3rd I finally decided to erase content from iTunes Media Folder
4th I deleted the iTunes Media folder because I felt it was stupid to have a "iTunes Media folder" and "iTunes Music Folder" in the same place but not actually have anything in the iTunes Music folder (probably really stupid of me in retrospect)
5th I unchecked the box under iTunes > Preferences > Advanced "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library"
6th I believe I changed the location of "iTunes Media folder location" in the Advanced area under Preferences thinking this should be pointing to my external drive
I then believe I tried to run iTunes and play my content, but when I did all it did was copy my music/media back to my MacBook Pro hard drive but I did not realize it was doing this until later the next day when I tried to play some music and realized I had 3 copies of everything in my iTunes program (ie music movies podcasts tv shows etc) however, I could play all three versions of whatever it was I selected there was no "error message" saying that iTunes could not located that file, would you like to try and locate.
So I checked Finder to see if there were 3 copies of everything (by the way at this point I stopped connecting my external hard drive for the sake of making more copies on iTunes) but there wasn't??? So I tried to go through Option+View > Show Exact Duplicate Copies and delete all but one of the items. When I would delete them and it asked if I wanted to move them to my Trash Bin I clicked yes and all the 2nd and 3rd copies were gone!!! Yeah, so when I played those songs/movies that remained they would play!!!!!
Than I realized that my Internal Hard Drive was almost full and went looking around for things I could delete to help make my MacBook run better, and realized that my Trash had a large amount of data in it and that emptying it would significantly reduce space on my Internal Hard Drive, but when I went back to iTunes and selected music or movies to play it placed the infamous "!" next to that track or movie and it could not locate those items anymore?
Long long long story short hopefully, can anyone help me set up iTunes so that it only can play content/media off of my external drive and not take up space on my internal hard drive? Is this even possible to do that or will always start to copy those files from the external hard drive back onto the internal hard drive? and second is there anyway to use the Apple router external hard drive to use as the source for all my media?
PS I am running Mac OS X Lion version 10.7.5 and iTunes 11.1.3 (8) 64-bit

2012EVOL wrote:
Hello,
I tried moving all my media to an external hard drive to make room on my MacBook Pro and just be able to run the media (ie music movies etc) from the external hard drive when it was connected.
Quit iTunes.
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder to the external. Don't only copy the iTunes media folder.
Hold Option, launch iTunes, select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder on the external.
This is all you need to do.
Everything for iTunes (except the application) is on the external.
2nd I think (this was back in March 2013) I decided to cut/delete the folder Automatically Add to iTunes and moved it to one of my external hard drives (this folder for some reason contained mostly everythiing that was in the iTunes Media folder).
Make a shortcut to this folder on your desktop.
Nothing should be in this folder. When you put a file here, it will get moved by iTunes and added to the library.
The reason it had files in it is because you moved it.

Help - moved itunes folders to external drive and now my itunes is totally

A few months ago, in order to free up space on my c drive, i had to purchase an external drive - everything i installed via itunes since that date has been on the hard drive and everything was fine.
Last night i needed more room on my C drive so i stupidly moved the remaining itunes folders from my C drive to my F drive - unfortunately, when i opened itunes it was blank.
i've tried a few things - including adding the folder from the F drive - and that retrieved about 80% of my music/videos and the last playlists i had - however, they were all missing songs - even if all the songs that should be included remained on my itunes
i began the tedious process of manually adding files back in but soon realized this doesn't help itunes consider this the same ipod as what's still on my actual ipod.
*What I'd like to do (if possible) is to wipe itunes clean and somehow restore everything on my ipod into itunes so that i retrieve not only the songs and videos but also the playlists that i've spent way too much time building. At this point i fear that the various components to my ipod are in too many files on my external drive to be easily restored another way (though if i'm wrong please let me know)*
sadly (as this story might suggest) I am borderline computer illiterate - I've read a few posts suggesting some sort of software online (something the apple help line also made an "off the record" remark about) - but I can't for the life of me figure out which i would use or how to do this without risking the contents of my existing ipod (which has the playlists and songs/video I want to reestablish).
*Can anyone possibly suggest how to best handle this and walk me through it in painstakingly basic and specific detail? I would be forever grateful.*
Thanks

iTunes uses the iTunes Library files - in particular the iTunes Library.itl file - to keep track of where your song files are located as well as playlist and related information.
Most likely in moving your folders around iTunes has been confused to such an extent that it created a new Library file. With a bit of luck you might still be able to find the old file which would restore your old Library.
So the first thing you want to do is look around your computer and make a note of any iTunes Library.itl files you can find. Generally speaking you'll find them in the iTunes folders on your system and depending on how you've been moving the folders - i.e. whether you "cut" them or "copied" them - you may still find at least one one on your F: drive and some on your C: drive.
Having noted where they are you know want to check each of them out as described in this article in the Apple Knowledge Base. In following those instructions you want to select the Choose Library option and use the pop-up window that appears to zero in on the various .itl files you've located.
Remember that each Library file will show a different Library in iTunes - perhaps slightly different, perhaps completely different - and if the first one isn't what you're looking for you'll have to close iTunes and repeat the procedure by selecting one of the other .itl's.
Post back for any clarification.

IPad abruptly quit, started playing Gaga's Scheibe song and will not now show up in "Devices" on iTunes. Keeps telling me it detects an iPad in Recovery mode. Cannot get past that. Help!

How do I recover the data on my iPad2? It abruptly quit while I was shutting down and started playing Gaga's Scheibe from "Born this Way" -- it was not coming from My Music or iTunes. I pressed both home key and side button to get it to stop and plugged it in to recharge. The USB connector to iTures screen showed up and that's as far as I can go. Had an appointment at the "genius bar" this morning and all they tell me is that they can "restore" which will not save any info I have. The last backup I did was April 2013 (I know, very stupid of me). iTunes does not recognize the device. It's all greyed out and I get a window that says iTunes detected an iPad in Recovery mode. That's as far as I can get. I really don't want to lose any data. Please help me. Thank you. Nancy

You have no choice but to lose your data back to the last backup you made.
Here's how to do the recovery. Note you may have to try to get into recovery mode more than once to succeed:
HT1808
I'm sure next time, you'll be more vigilant about keeping current backups.

Today I Reset All of the settings on my iPhone 3G. Now I cannot get it to do anything and all I get is the iTunes connect screen. I have tried EVERYTHING!!! What am I supposed to do now?

Just like the subject line says, I reset my iPhone 3g which I just bought from a friend for $50. The device worked just fine and then I performed a complete reset on the phone. The one that says it may take up to two hours... Well I left and came back about 8 hours later. I pressed the Home button to view the screen and I now see that my phone is "locked" and I can only make emergency calls. There was no cell service before but I was still able to browse the phone and use it's features.
Now I can do nothing with the phone, I have tried to force it into recovery, I have performed both the soft and hard resets and I am at a loss. I have always been against anything Apple as an IT Professional and now this reaffirms why. My EVO from HTC (Linux based) has never had one single problem and I have rooted it, flashed a new ROM and flashed a new Kernel.
The iPhone was not even Jailbroken or unlocked. And to make it all worse, the only language that it displays is Spanish?!?! ***???
Why didn't the iPhone tell me that it was going to ruin my device and change the default language to Spanish instead of simply stating it would take two hours?
I have worked on this phone all night, now I'm out of $50 and was going to sell this on eBay for an easy $250.00. What the heck is wrong with this POS? And why won't Apple offer any support without having to pay them? If I pay them for support and then they can't get it to work then what? I'm screwed their too?
There is nothing left to do but smash this thing, I wish I would have never bought it, and I even wasted $20 on a new home/car charger for it. I'm so mad I can't hardly stand it. This is why I ONLY use ANDROID based devices and I recommend that you ALL do the same!
But, if anyone can provide any insight into this issue it would be much appreciated. It's just not fair that it sits with this stupid "connect me to iTunes screen" yet does nothing. AHHHHHHHHHH!
Please HELP ME SOMEONE!!!!
By the way, I have tried ths on my Windows 7 PC and my XP laptop. Same result. iTunes and the computer will NOT recognize the device in any way no matter what mode I start the phone in. It just refuses to work.
PAinguIN

- Try here:
iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- If not success and you can't turn the iPod fully off, let the battery fully drain and then try again.
- Time for an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.

Can't connect to iTunes store? "Network connection refused..." FIXED!!!

I think I’ve fixed it! After trying a bunch of stuff this is what worked for me!
From: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2605647?
(I just copied and pasted the text so the formatting looks goofy...)
life4living2
Posts: 12
From: Great Central Valley of California
Registered: Jun 19, 2006
Re: cant connect to itunes music store
Posted: Jun 19, 2006 7:39 PM in response to: evily
See if this helps in your situation:
OK, all you people all over the world who have been having the same problem as me for weeks, months, a lifetime, here it is! If your warning/error reads "iTunes could not connect to the Music Store. The network connection was refused" and then the BS about checking to make sure your connection is active, well I found something on a forum at Digg.com that with one click WORKED LIKE MAGIC and I'm a happy camper now, rockin to stuff I finally got from the store.
Now before I print the fix, my previous situation was: I could connect to the Apple store site for products, etc. and could check my account, but I could not connect to the music store at all. In every other way, my internet connectivity was flawless. I tried to solve the problem, shut down every firewall or antivirus program I had, searched forums, fiddled with the registry (and THAT was a stupid move!), reinstalled itunes like HOW MANY TIMES, and even finally got a written email reply from iTunes support when I waah.., waah..., waah..ed long enough and they gave an answer that was WORSE than useless. Months passed. So if the above in total or in part describes you, her it is. It's safe and if it doesn't work, you can put things back the way they were without any problem.
This is the quote from the forum at Digg.com that did it for me:
"figured out the problem thanks to Peter on the badapple forums, in his great assistance:
"In your windows\system32\drivers\etc directory there is a file called hosts. Open it in notepad. You will see a line
127.0.0.1 phobos.apple.com
place a # in front of that line so that it looks like this:
#127.0.0.1 phobos.apple.com
and save the file. your problem should be resolved!"
That's it guys and gals. Also you might be sure that the phobos.apple.com domain is specifically allowed by your firewall/A-V software. Let me know if it helped!
ASUS P4 mothervboard Windows XP A screamer machine
Did this topic solve your issue?
evily
Posts: 2
From: georgia
Registered: Jun 14, 2006
Re: cant connect to itunes music store
Posted: Jun 24, 2006 6:45 PM in response to: life4living2
I followed the changes you suggested exectly but its still not working. I tried adjusting the Firewall again and even turned it completely off, but still it gives me the same message and wont open.
insignia Windows XP
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life4living2
Posts: 12
From: Great Central Valley of California
Registered: Jun 19, 2006
Re: cant connect to itunes music store
Posted: Jun 25, 2006 11:37 PM in response to: evily
Evily,
Here's a variation that was on another thread on this topic. See if it helps any:
Posts: 1
From: Seattle
Registered: Jun 23, 2006
Re: "iTunes could not connect to the Music Store"
Posted: Jun 23, 2006 3:48 PM in response to: life4living2 Reply Email
SUCCESS!!! I tried many variations on this and it finally worked. Yes, as life4living says, you have to open the "hosts" file that you can find in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
... use NotePad ...
At the bottom of the file, I found
127.0.0.1 localhost
and nothing about phobos.
AFter many attempts, I changed the end of the HOSTS file to this:
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# 127.0.0.1 phobos.apple.com
and now iTunes music store and podcasts open up just fine.
Strange. The # character means "this is a comment" - so it's basically the same as removing the line completely.
The address 127.0.0.1 means "my machine" and this address is used by other apps such as Google Desktop. Hatching it out, however, does not adversely affect Google Desktop. So basically you have to hatch out any 127.0.0.1 address in the HOSTS file and then iTunes will work!
Try it...
(I did, also, add phobos.apple.com to my "trusted sites" in Internet Explorer settings, but I don't think this was essential.)
After performing the above I found it only worked once after rebooting. I uninstalled Spybot Search and Destroy because it wouldn’t maintain some of the start up settings and cookies were getting nuked by another program I have in start up (Windows Washer).
Some other threads said to check firewall settings. I have free AVG. I went in and okay’d anything to do with iTunes. I also added the iTunes program to the list of approved processes in the AVG list and it seems iTunes is now working! Hope this helps!

It's for windows.
1. Press the Start Button in the (default) bottom
left hand corner.
2. Click on "My Computer".
3. Click on (Default) C:.
4. Find "WINDOWS" and open.
5. Find "system 32" and open.
6. Find "drivers" and open.
7. Find "ect" and open.
8. Find "hosts" and open.
9. For a XP, a popup will open and show options to
open it in.
10. Select "Notepad" or "Word" or what ever you use
for writing a document.
11. At the bottom, if it says "127.0.0.1 localhost"
C&P This Over the 127.0.0.1 localhost:
#127.0.0.1 localhost
#127.0.0.1 phobos.apple.com
If it only has 127.0.0.1 phobos.apple.com, add a "#"
at the beginning.
12. Restart your computer.
Hope that helps!
-Pirate Munkeh
This helped my error! Thanx!

Problems with restoring my iTunes library after performing an HP backup and system recovery

Hello,
Last Sunday night/Monday morning, I had to perform a system recovery (from the discs supplied by HP) on my HP Compaq Presario SR5310F 32-bit desktop computer running Windows Vista Home Premium, (on the recommendation of samone at HP) and just backing up my 90+ GB iTunes library took 12 hours (the actual system recovery took only about 2-1/2 hours, the following morning). After the recovery process was complete, I 'restored' the backed-up files by either double-clicking or just opening the first backup file (the one whose file name ends in '.1') and following the prompts, which placed the files into something called the 'System Restore Files' folder. I thought I could just restore my iTunes library by dragging and dropping the music, video and iTunes folder files from this System Restore Files folder back into their original places on my computer, but while the song titles did show up in my iTunes library, whenever I tried to actually play one, an exclamation point would appear beside the song's title and I'd get the error message 'iTunes cannot find the file'; when I clicked on 'Find missing file'--or whatever it's called--the C < Users < [username] < Music folder would open, and it would be completely blank, with only the words 'This folder is empty' appearing in it. (And BTW, before you try to recommend the 'Finding missing content in iTunes' or 'How to find missing music in iTunes' articles to me, I should point out that I did try all of the steps in those articles, but my iTunes library was still completely empty at that point, despite trying those steps; that was why I finally tried 'dragging and dropping all of those files back into the Desktop, Downloads, Documents--yes, some really large download files, not from iTunes, showed up in the Documents folder--and also a couple of downloaded music files--again, not from iTunes--showd up 'loose' [by 'loose', I mean not in one of the folders (e.g., Documents, Downloads etc.) in my [username] subfolder] in my [username] subfolder, after which, I was able to get most of my song and video titles listed in iTunes again, but they just won't PLAY! Also, it appears I'm missing about 5 GB from my iTunes library now, as it's saying that I only have about 85.15 GB worth of files in it, where before I had 90+ GB worth of files in it.)
BTW, I can play the files I moved to Desktop, Downloads, etc. if I right-click on the individual files in these locations and then click on 'Play' or 'Open With', but they just won't play in iTunes.
And one more thing: I stupidly deleted my 2 iTunes podcast file titles after I discovered that these, too, would not play; is there any way I can recover these--and my iTunes library--without performing yet ANOTHER system recovery and starting over 'from scratch'? (But if that's what I'll have to do, I'll do it--or else I'll just give up and start all over again with the new computer I plan to buy over the Labor Day weekend [it'll be a 64-bit Windows 7 computer, I know that much at least], as most of my music was ripped from CDs or else downloaded from places like Bandcamp or Amazon MP3, and these downloads were saved to a series of USB flash drives; I was informed that if worst came to worst, I could redownload my iTunes purchases, but my 2 podcasts will be lost forever, as iTunes doesn't 'keep' those--or words to that effect...)
P.S. The computer I'm using has only a 250 GB hard drive, of which 223 GB were available, I couldn't perform the 'Consolidate' function so I could properly back up my iTunes library, as, what with the accumulated Windows downloads (I got this computer in February 2008) and other programs, I had only a few (< 10) GB free--not enough to consolidate the iTunes library, and second, the computer malfunctioned just prior to my performing the system recovery, so that I could no longer log on in 'normal' mode, only in the various safe modes. A lady at Microsoft told me I could back up my iTunes library by logging on in safe mode with networking (since I could do that, albeit with the error message 'Your account has been loaded with a temporary profile') and pasting my iTunes library to my external hard drive, but when I tried this, I got a message listing my iTunes library as '(empty)' when I clicked on iTunes in 'All Programs', and needless to say, my iTunes library wouldn't even open in any of the safe modes (I don't know whether it was 'just' my computer, or whether the lady didn't know what she was talking about--she does work for Microsoft, after all).

OK, before you moved the iTunes folder did the library contain entries for your original files?
This is the normal layout of the iTunes folders. From what you said at the outset it would seem that, as far as that copy of your library is concerned, it thinks the media folder is C:\System Recovery Files\C\Users\<User>\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media
Not quite sure where you have moved the original set of library files to (that is the five files listed above and the Album Artwork folder) but you should move these to C:\System Recovery Files\C\Users\<User>\Music\iTunes, (leaving everything else in place) then click the icon to launch iTunes and immediately press and hold down the left shift key until asked to choose or create a library. Click choose and browse to the library file at C:\System Recovery Files\C\Users\<User>\Music\iTunes\iTunes Library.itl - fingers crossed this will open your old database, which will be able to find your old files. If that goes well we can look to moving them somewhere more sensible.
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ITunes Match won't recognize albums bought in another country as purchased

Hi all,
momentarely I'm quite dissapoibted with iTunes match.
I have a library with 26k titles - over 2'700 bought in iTunes, the rest is my digitalized CD-Library or bough via amazon.
in 2010 I moved from germany to switzerland and changed the country in iTunes - the ID is the same.
Now it seems that all my purchases in the german iTunes store aren't recognized by match as purchase.
correct would it look like this:
     26'783 total
-       2'752   purchased in iTunes
=    24'031atch (clearly under the stupid 25k limit)
how iTunes calculates:
     26'783 total
-        702 recognized as purchase by iTunes-match
=   26'063 to match (over the stupid 25k limit)
I contacted iTunes-support.
I told them my suspicion that it may be related to the move, she said that it wouldn't matter only to correct this statement after a couple of weeks.
After a month she wrote me that this is a fact and is not be seen as a problem.
Pointing out that this is clearly not what was advertised, she answered me:
"I want to point out, that 25'000 songs are a fair amount and I suggest to renew your songs, and exchange older ones with new ones."
I find that answer for a represantive of af a music download store quite arrogant, and told her that I now would like to speak to her Teamleader, which she denied with the comment, that she is as high as it gets.
Has anyone else experienced something like this or an idea how to solve this?
cheers
Erik

There is no neat solution, this is how iTunes Match operates.
One work around would be to export on CD and re-import (for the purchases) and to re-rip for existing CDs - it will work but is time consuming.

Stupid me or stupid iTunes?

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