Missing iTunes music!

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Robert Atkins - 27 May 2006 08:40 GMT

Over the last few weeks I've been ripping all my CDs into Apple
Lossless and storing them on the external drive I've got hooked up
to the Mac mini. iTunes is now suddenly telling me that about half
the music is gone! There's an exclamation mark to the left of the
track name in the main display and when I try and play a song, I
get a dialog saying "The song (...) could not be used becuase the
original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?".
The offending song files do not indeed appear to be in my iTunes
library.

Any idea how this could have happened? I'm suspecting something to
do with Corripio (http://nclasssoftware.com/) as the songs which
have disappeared I think correlate to ones I've downloaded artwork
for. But I don't know how it could have happened.

Anyone know how I can get iTunes to fix its library.xml file so it
accurately reflects what's on disk? Aside from re-importing
everything...

Cheers, Robert.

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Greg - 27 May 2006 23:34 GMT

> Over the last few weeks I've been ripping all my CDs into Apple
> Lossless and storing them on the external drive I've got hooked up
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> accurately reflects what's on disk? Aside from re-importing
> everything...

Same problem happened here. With an ipod shuffle.
I copied some mp3s from a cd to the Ipod then changed cd's to copy more
music.
When I changed cd's to copy more music all went well untill I reinserted the
Ipod, then the origional music automatically got deleted from the Ipod
because the source files were no longer available. That may be the problem
you are having. and just a function of the itunes software.

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Steve B. - 30 May 2006 22:32 GMT

Greg said:

> "Robert Atkins" <ratkins_usenet@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message

news:4478027c$0$17549$61c65585@un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au..>
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>> Over the last few weeks I've been ripping all my CDs into Apple
>> Lossless and storing them on the external drive I've got hooked up
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> because the source files were no longer available. That may be the problem
> you are having. and just a function of the itunes software.

I also had some tracks go missing from my iTunes library in the same way.

Steve = : ^ )

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Nigel - 30 May 2006 23:32 GMT

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Steve B. at prettygood@everything.but.choosing.a.bogus.email.address wrote
on 31/5/06 7:32 AM:

> Greg said:
>
>> "Robert Atkins" <ratkins_usenet@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message

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> Steve = : ^ )

I guess the question is where or how are you storing your music when
importing. A good way to avoid most problems is to always copy the files
into the itunes folder. Under itunes prefs ->advanced -> general make sure
the "copy files to itunes music folder" is ticked then you will be sure the
files will always be there. You can do this after the fact by going
Advanced->consolidate library

You say you copied from the CD to an ipod - did you fist import into itunes
(as above) then into the ipod? Remember the ipod syncs with itunes each
time so if the music is not in the itunes folder (ie you just had the CD in
and moved the converted tracks manually to ipod) they wont be there next
time cos the CD is gone. The external hard drive storage of the original
post is more mysterious.

Hope that helps

Nigel
Brisbane

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Steve B. - 31 May 2006 00:30 GMT

Nigel said:

> in article
> C0A2F5EA.7348B%prettygood@everything.but.choosing.a.bogus.email.address,
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>>> "Robert Atkins" <ratkins_usenet@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message

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> files will always be there. You can do this after the fact by going
> Advanced->consolidate library

I imported a CD directly into iTunes in one process. Sometime later, some of
the tracks had gone missing. The others are still there. I had to deleted
the missing tracks as iTunes reported the original files missing (as
described above) and I had given the CD away.

Steve = : ^ )

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Missing iTunes music!