Tried to rename some tracks in a playlist and it renamed EVERYTHING IN MY MASSIVE LIBRARY!! Now all my ID3 tags are wrong! THOUSANDS OF THEM!

Had some home-made music I wanted to bring into my library which had no Meta info, so in the past I'd create a playlist so I can easily find the new additions amid my 25,000 songs, and give them proper meta info. Tried this today with latest iTunes and when I renamed one track, it applied those changes to my whole library before I realized what was happening and stopped it. Now I have 8000 tracks that all think they're on an album called "Acoustic Glory". Go ahead and try to replicate this, I dare you. It's a tried-and-true BUG! Now I'm screwed. What am I gonna manually adjust the meta on 8000 tracks? Fat chance. I tried some 3rd party apps that pull from the internet but they never work. Thanks a lot iTunes 11, for ruining my music life. Would love to get some easy fix suggestion from an apple expert.

This "original file cannot be found" thing happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes .
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