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A comment on the problem "Itunes can't find songs even though they haven't been moved" in Apple:
Everything has been fine since I manually went through every song and pointed iTunes to the location of the missing ones. I did this by starting at the top (ABBA), and playing each song until I got to songs where it prompted me to search for the file. The fact that it has been fine for 10 months leads me to believe that the iTunes library was corrupted and that it had nothing to do with my HDD. – Mike D, on November 18, 2008 17:59-
Mike D replied on January 19, 2008 21:26 to the problem "Itunes can't find songs even though they haven't been moved" in Apple:
Okay, sorry it took me a while to find time to do this. It did not work. At least not the way I wanted it to.
I backed up all playlists using instructions here: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n93763
I followed the directions to recreate the iTunes Library, and when I restored it, I got a message saying that not all of my music was restored because some could not be found. So basically, it just removed all the songs that it couldn't find originally (over 3 GB). So at that point, I assume that 100% of the songs were working, but it didn't fix anything.
What I might try next is what I dreaded: manually pointing the files to the correct location (which never changed since I have iTunes manage my music folder!). If I do, I'll post results. If it happens again, then I might have to check my HD health. -
Mike D replied on January 17, 2008 16:54 to the problem "Itunes can't find songs even though they haven't been moved" in Apple:
I will try that tonight and report the results. Do you know if this will retain playcount and ratings? -
Mike D marked one of Mark Stickley's replies in Apple as useful. Mark Stickley replied to the question "How do I remove the album art from a specific album in iTunes?".
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Mike D replied on January 17, 2008 15:02 to the question "How do I remove the album art from a specific album in iTunes?" in Apple:
Aha! You're right. That makes perfect sense. I hadn't removed the wrong art from every song of the album. I just did and it worked. Thanks! -
Mike D reported a problem in Apple on January 17, 2008 03:48:
Itunes can't find songs even though they haven't been movedI'm using iTunes 7.6 for Windows XP. I have iTunes set to "Keep iTunes music folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library". Randomly, iTunes will be unable to locate the files for many songs even though they haven't been moved. If I try to play one of the missing songs, it asks if I'd like to locate it and I look for it exactly where it should be (\Artist\Album\Track.mp3) and then it will work.
This happens to at least 10% of my library and it's not always random. It will often be a bunch of songs by the same artist or a whole album. The songs affected are usually songs that I've added a long time ago. Recently added songs are fine. I'm not using an external hard drive or network drive.
Does anyone know how to fix this without deleting and readding the songs (and losing playcount and rating info), or going through the library manually? -
Mike D replied on January 17, 2008 03:31 to the question "How do I remove the album art from a specific album in iTunes?" in Apple:
I've got a bunch of songs that have the wrong album art. I deleted the album art from the album art tab, and that works fine. But they still show up in CoverFlow view. How can I delete them from there as well? Is it possible that the mp3 file itself has the wrong album art embedded in it?
