Topic: Itunes Help!

[edtyre]

Posted this to the team mac first, no answers.

Having problems with my Itunes library.
When i go to play certain tracks, i get a dialog box
saying the track can't be found, if i navigate to where the track is
and click on it, it will play, or if i delete the songs in the original playlist
and re-add from my itunes music folder, all the tracks will play. The playlists
can't remember where the tracks are, and there is an exclamation mark to the
left of the tracks in question.

This is hundreds of tracks, and even some that i have re-added can't be
found for a second time.

I have over a 1000 shows in itunes and i have lots more that i have on hold
till i find an answer to this problem......and BTW i checked Apple's site and there
are many folks looking for answers and so far there aren't any 

Anybody using something other than itunes for the music server on a mac?

[ford prefect]

Try this, although I am on a PC so it might be different to get to this:

Edit > Preferences > Advanced [tab] > Check these 2 boxes:

• Keep iTunes folder organized
• Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library.

Make sure the iTunes Music folder location is on a big partition though....  After you do this, you may want to start over with your iTunes library and reimport everything.  When it imports the files it will copy them all to the same location and you shouldn't have that problem anymore.

Keep in mind that you should now delete files after importing them.  For example, if you import this file:

D:\LedZeppelin\SongRemainsTheSame.mp3

You should delete this file when the import is done now that it copies it to the iTunes Music folder.

Make sense?

[edtyre]

Try this, although I am on a PC so it might be different to get to this:

Edit > Preferences > Advanced [tab] > Check these 2 boxes:

• Keep iTunes folder organized
• Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library.

Make sure the iTunes Music folder location is on a big partition though....  After you do this, you may want to start over with your iTunes library and reimport everything.  When it imports the files it will copy them all to the same location and you shouldn't have that problem anymore.

Keep in mind that you should now delete files after importing them.  For example, if you import this file:

D:\LedZeppelin\SongRemainsTheSame.mp3

You should delete this file when the import is done now that it copies it to the iTunes Music folder.

Make sense?

Thanks

Tryed that already, doesn't work.

[willndmb]

did you reimport the file?
sounds like what happened was you imported the song rather it be drag and drop or actually clicked import
then you moved the song so it was no longer being found where you originally had it
as stated in the 1st reply you want the boxes checked so it makes a copy in your itunes folder, then no matter if you move the original or delte it or whatever itunes will still play the songbecause it has the copy saved
but anyway once you checked the boxes you will need to reimport in order for the copy to be made
edit - i recommend delting the original file name from itunes before reimporting too - you could have reimported but tried playing the original file name

[ford prefect]

Thanks

Tryed that already, doesn't work.

It will work if you delete your current XML config file and reimport everything.

[edtyre]

Thanks for the help guys.

I got everything back to normal now, here's what i did:

Trashed xml config, changed location of itunes music folder, then changed back to
original location. Itunes then re-organized the files and i was left with a lot less
problem tracks. When i unchecked all the files in library, ALL the problem files showed
exclamation marks, so it was very easy to delete the problems and re-do those tracks.
After that i checked for and deleted all dupes. Took me half a day to get everything right,
but now i am a happy camper.

My problem may have been when i first started using Itunes and filled a small drive
then moved location to a bigger drive, i screwed something up.

BTW.....I tryed Slimserver which is really cool, but the virtual music player quality
really sucks compared to running itunes, anyone with a decent playback system is
not going to like this.