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Ipod/Itunes help please.
This is an odd one.
Last night I decided to add some music to my iTunes library.
When I started I had 6,648 songs in it,and when I finished I had 7011.
This morning when I went to update my iPod, my library has shrunk back to 6,377 songs, less,you will notice than when I began the task. A cursory check- and believe me, there was lots of cursing- shows that, for example, Abbey Road Remastered has disappeared from sight after being in my library for over a year, but Stand Up Jethro Tull, which was added last night, is still there. Though at this juncture it would appear to be the only one of the new uploads to survive the night. I will assume that all the missing stuff will be in a file or folder somewhere, but where? Any ideas? Or will i have to redo the whole shebbang?
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I had the same problem. The number of tracks in iTunes varied wildly. I think if might have had something to do with WMA conversion. Interestingly (that's a relative term) the number of tracks in Windows Media Player never varied. I don't have an iPod so have up using iTunes expcept for downloading podcasts.
Look on the disc
Are the files still in the directory ?
If you're not sure where the directory is try this -
(If you do know where it is, sorry if this seems obvious)
right click a track (Jethro Tull) and select "Show in Windows Explorer".
Then go up a directory (to your Jethro Tull) then up one more - this directory should list all the bands. Are The Beatles there? Is Abbey Road in the directory ?
It may be that the itunes library has got confused. I had that and I just reloaded the albums that had gone missing by dragging and dropping the directories into itunes.
Every now and again
iTunes decides that the library is held on the C: drive rather than the external drive where I have placed it. This causes confusion and messages to appear saying that 100+ tracks cannot be found (it's more than that but that's the default message).
I seem to have an iTunes on C: (the old one) plus one on H: (the new and correct one) but within that one there's another one. I have copied this sub-folder into its parent and now find that I have two or three copies of most tracks but some are still missing altogether.
Is there an alternative to working my way through several thousand tracks and deleting the duplicates and how do I get iTunes to find all the missing files?
Is there an option to start again - ie just clear iTunes and tell it to search out all the music on my PC?
Any help much appreciated.
Just Checked My Mac Book
Unless you change the settings each song is saved as a sound file with a folder for the album within the folder for the artist, All these folder lives in your home>music folder
so for the file The Beatles I Dig A Pony could be tracked down via itunes>itunesmusic>The Beatles>Let It Be>Dig A Pony
all this via the finder window I think good luck
Just Checked My Mac Book
Twice
Filters
Never ignore the screamingly obvious (and apologies in advance for suggesting this) but you haven't got any filters on your view of your library have you? For example, if things are set with a particular genre, then by accidentally clicking on, say, "Pop", it would show only those tracks with that genre and hence you'd see less than the full library.
Check you're saving all your music in just one folder
I save all mine on an external hard drive but occasionally iTunes resets it to the default setting on the C drive and it all gets in a mess (even though I have th ekeep library organised' option ticked. Off the top of my head I think it's under storage in the preferences box.
Thanks To All
As always, good stuff here.
Think I may have fixed it, by doing this:
Went into "My Computer" and clicked "search", then typed in MP4. This brought up some 8500+ songs, and all the missing ones appeared at the top of the list. At a loss what to do then I clicked on the first song (Nils Lofgren/Grin/1+1/White Lies) and pressed "play". It was added straight away to my library... I then went through every song that I guessed was missing and did the same thing. Long and laborious it was but it SEEMED to work. However some songs still in the library had a wee icon in front of it which when clicken showed "file missing".
Given it up for tonight, will try again tomorrow.