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• duplicated on two drives iTunes library HELP

  I have an iTunes library on an external drive, the titles are listed on iTunes, but you must have the USB device to listen to music... I copied the contents of an another USB so that if one fails, it can play each other, file structure is exactly the same but when I select a title he cannot find the song... If I click on search and access the same file on the duplicate key then plays and offers to look for other missing files... It's as if they are the same but it will automatically be a link to a key and have to go to the path again so he can play on the other... Any ideas?

  I was hoping I could just play it where ever I connected - is - it possible?

  Thank you

  Brad

  Both devices get the same drive letter to Windows?  If this isn't the case, you can use the Windows disk management service to associate the same drive letter to each device in turn.

  Thumb drives standard USB are not really reliable enough to be used for long-term storage and are of course subject to loss / theft / damage.  Taking also into account the fact that most current thumb drives (128 GB?) will not hold more than one library of size average, a better bet is to use a USB disk drive * for your library (with a second to support).  Also take a look at the user tip of Turningtest2 on do a split portable library that describes the structure of your iTunes library so that it is independent and can be stored on any appropriate device.  According to your description, you have your database iTunes on your PC's internal drive and media on external devices; It is, as you have discovered, more difficult to manage and also less likely to be regularly backed up and replicated on another computer, see Council of tt2 on your iTunes backup for Windows with SyncToy library for a recommended method to make and maintain backups.

  * My Installer use a disc of 2 TB USB 3.0 for my library 'master', with a similar on my desktop system disk, and a disc of 2 TB portable for use as a backup and also periodically update the Office of library system from that master.  I have a secondary home with another 2 TB drive - so altogether I have four copies of my library, which the three "secondary" are rarely more than a week that is not synchronized with the master, just to complicate things, I have two additional iTunes (completely different content main) libraries, using a two other drives of 2 TB and two 1 TB drives.

• Help me get back my iTune library

  Hello

  I lost my mac mini 2009 with my library of more than 3,000 titles iTune.

  For now, I have an old Dell with Windows 7 and iTunes.

  I still have access to my iTune and iTune Store account, but I have nothing left to synchronize.

  My external drive backup are all in the time Capsule and I'm now trying to recover my iTunes library on a PC...

  I allowed Dell to access iTune but I can't import the content of my old iTune iPhone 3GS on the Dell library...

  All I see are my recent purchase... a very small part of the library.

  My music is all about the 3Gs, how can I import it on the DEll PC?

  Well. can you help me please... I own this music and paid for it!

  Kind regards

  Simon

  An iPhone is not a source of backup for the music.

  You can restore all your music purchased on iTunes, but it seems that if you know that and you want to restore the rest.

  The way to do that is to replace your Mac Mini with a new Mac, then use Time Machine as well as the Migration Wizard to restore your last backup Mac Mini for this new machine.

• Missing iTunes library and playlists... Please help

  Hello, this morning to my horror, I started iTunes and all my 20,000 songs and playlists, I spent years developing are absent.  Would it be a problem with my hard drive or a disk that allows iTunes search startup files?  I checked the path to the file and it seems that the music is always in their folders however re import all would not get the playlists back and on top of that the last backup I have was from 2014.    Can anyone help

  It is possible that your iTunes library file has become corrupted, so iTunes has started up with a new iTunes library.  Or you may have accidentally set iTunes to open a new iTunes library.  If you use the default configuration, the iTunes library file is located in your iTunes folder and called iTunes Library.itl, to this place

  [startup drive] /Users/ [your name of user account] / music/iTunes/iTunes Library.itl

  NOTE: The iTunes library file is a database that defines your iTunes library.  It contains no files media real iTunes, which are organized and stored separately.

  Go to this location using a Finder window; What do you see?  If you see a file called iTunes Library.itl here, quit iTunes (if you run) and use this method to open iTunes using this library file.

  Open a different iTunes library file or create a new - Apple Support

  If it does not open or if you still get a library empty in iTunes, you use Time Machine to back up your boot drive?  If you do, you can restore your library iTunes from a State of backup file (date/time) when it does not have this problem.  In your case, it would be immediately before the last time you used iTunes with a working library.  Time Machine does incremental backups every hour, so this should be very close to when the problem occurred, if your iTunes library should be updated more often.

  If you do not have a backup (why not?) of your user data, look in the folder iTunes for a folder called Previous iTunes Libraries.  iTunes, these backups when there is a major update to iTunes, in the case where something bad happens or the user must go back to a previous version of iTunes for some reason any.  If the last backup of 'previous' iTunes library is not too old, you can use this library file to open iTunes, using this procedure

  If you do not see your content once you update iTunes - Apple Support

• Lost iTunes Library - CAN not rebuild. Help!

  Tonight I thought I had lost most of my iTunes library. It turns out that I didn't have that I can find the content itself, but iTunes can't see it. So, I followed the instructions here to try to resolve the problem: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203225

  It did not work. I found myself with some of my content. Most of my music, none of my TV or movies (and no, these were not bought through iTunes)

  I then tried to rebuild my iTunes Library with these instructions: http://www.mcelhearn.com/how-to-rebuild-your-itunes-library/

  It did not work also.

  So, I was wondering if I should completely remove iTunes from my iMac, the re - install it if this could work?

  Although I had to remove, and then reinstall iTunes, I still have all my content back inside however get. All content currently, lives on an external hard drive and so I do not know what to do really. I thought maybe I could drag and drop content more but there is more content on this external drive to the room, I have available on my iMac.

  Any ideas?

  The first method rebuilt your library by using a backup file created whenever you updated the iTunes application. If you have videos in there at the time that they should appear even if only as broken links. If they had not been entered and then realize that it uses an older version of your library file.  The library file doesn't say what media he recorded for you and where, not an inventory of your media files to iTunes.

  The second method allows to rebuild the library based on a version in alternate formats of the library file. It is regularly updated and if, during your previous attempts it updated the .xml to match the library at this stage, then that is clearly not good.

  I do not reinstall the application. If you are desperate then simply slide the media on the outside back into the existing library.  Designated as the place to store media in iTunes > Preferences > advanced is the external drive then he should leave the files there.

  You have the entire library on the external hard drive, or just media? Be aware if you have all of your external library must be on before launching iTunes.

• Deletion of albums of my iTunes library also removes the songs from these albums of my playlists

  Hello! I wonder if there is a way to delete albums of my iTunes library without removing songs from these albums of my playlists.

  I take my playlists seriously enough (because I know others do too) and would not that they be tampered with. The songs I have in them that I'm here for a reason and a lot of these songs are single whole albums I've saved in my iTunes library. I just recently the desire to clean my library because he got rather crowded with reckless decisions, but I can't do it until I have a solution. I'm glad that I remembered that this might affect my playlists before any serious damage was done.

  I still have to find a question like this or a setting that would allow me to do. Please help me if you have an idea of how to go on this subject! Thank you very much in advance

  No, you cannot delete an album on iTunes and at the same time not delete tracks. You could potentially change the details of the track so that less albums appear in the library, but I'm reluctant to even suggest that he. Data are always more easily thrown only recovered later.

  TT2

• gone forever iTunes library?

  I recently reset my Windows laptop because it becomes slow. I lost all my files in the process, and unfortunately, I do not think for the backup of my iTunes library. I think I have in the past, but when I opened my iTunes and connected it shows nothing. I tried to check my cloud, that may be in my music, and that did nothing. I tried and tried the suggestions I found online. He said as I didn't buy music to download when I bought, of course, music. Went all my iTunes music? Help, please

  If make sure that you are connected with the Apple, ID you used to buy music, click here, and then follow the instructions. If you cannot retrieve a piece in this way, it must be reloaded from the original source.

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• IPod Classic reeked havoc on my iTunes!  Help!

  Can someone help PLEEEEEAASSSSE?

  I kept my iTunes library on an external hard drive Lacie for recent years.  From time to time I simply opened my iTunes library, music new dump in and re - sync my iPod classic.  A week ago, I did this and got an error during the synchronization.  The iPod is really old, almost complete, but still works.  Nevertheless, I had to stop the sync, restore the iPod and regain sync.  I did it and everything was fine... or so I thought.

  A night or 2 later I went to play a song on my iPod and noticed he wasn't there.  In fact, a very important (and random) part songs were gone from the iPod.   I went into my iTunes library to check and found a large number of songs with the red exclamation points.  I am aware of what that means and has been able to reconnect broken links which gave me about 200 songs which did not work.  The rest seems to be completely DISAPPEARED from my library.  If I go into the files of the album all that remains album files work... NO SONG NO FILES.  I did a spotlight search of title on the HDD for the songs and nothing.  What the * happened?  Miss me him more than 2000 songs.  Very random too.   Some albums have half songs left, a few 1 or 2, some not at all.

  Even weirder, is that if I connect to my iTunes library that sits right on my macbook (which is much smaller, but it shares some of the same songs) on a song/artist will play for that whole part of the alphabet.  For example, the song "Blue Sky" of The Allman Bros plays almost each piece separately in the section "A" of my library.  We go to a Beck song for all the songs of 'B' and so on.  Something bad happened?

  It could be my madness, but I swear yesterday as he tried everything to flow back to the previous libraries to change my main media folder location, which for a second that I did something that made all these songs to work again.  While I had that on the screen, I selected all the good work tracks and thrown on a flash drive to dump if all goes well in to my iTunes corrupt and all library set. I did, and none of the tracks that I've just spilled on the flash drive appeared.  A bunch of other tracks were there, but they were the songs that I didn't need to fix.

  I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!

  HELP PLEASE!

  -Kirk

  Since this problem noticing, you have restarted your Mac?

  iTunes, media synchronization is from iTunes library to iPod, so it is unlikely that the iPod "reeked havoc" on your iTunes library.  More likely, there was (existing but undiscovered) on your external drive and sync data corruption caused the problem on the iPod (a week ago).

  Run disk utility, select the disk volume (indented under the player) in the disk utility sidebar.  Click first aid.  You can also do the first aid with the drive selected in the sidebar, but a problem is more likely to be detected by checking the volume in this case.  You can also check the internal drive of the MacBook.

  You use Time Machine to backup your user data?  If this isn't the case, you are using other backup methods, such as cloning?

• How do I add to itunes library without duplicating files

  I have two computers and therefore two local iTunes library. A while back, I moved my iTunes Media on dropbox folder location, like that I could have one place two libraries would draw from. When I got new music I would like to import into a library as usual, and in order to get on the second library I was going to just come to 'Add to library' on the second computer and reselect the same iTunes Media folder. For longer, it would scan this folder and import only new music, however for some reason any now whenever I try to 'Add to library' on the second computer it begins to import duplicates of the entire library rather than just new music. Not sure if I changed the setting on this, or if it is a change caused by an iTunes update? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  If you add a media to an iTunes iTunes library folder will ignore all media for which there is a reference specific dedicated location in the iTunes library file because it is already in the library. You see all the broken links! = What you say all your old references should all be showing broken links because you see everything add iTunes think it is different from that of the current storage location library tracks.

  This is the risk of using something like Dropbox for storing media.  I don't really know what is happening in detail and it is unlikely, that it has nothing to do with an iTunes updated since iTunes behaved this way since version 1.  Sometimes of storage devices what top-level network address needs such as NAS play this kind of question and Dropbox is certainly network.

• How can I find the music marked with an exclamation point in my itunes library?

  How can I find the music marked with an exclamation point in my itunes library?

  Hello there rdgernnr!

  I certainly don't want to find the songs that show the "!" and get them to play correctly. If you have not yet done it, read this article: If you see an exclamation point next to your items in iTunes - Apple Support

  More precisely:

  Correct the path of the media file

  Follow these steps to help find the correct location of the file iTunes media:

  1. In iTunes on your Mac or PC, select the song, album, movie, or television show that has the exclamation next to him.
  2. In the MenuBar at the top of your screen, computer or at the top of the iTunes window choose Edition > read the information.
     If you are using Windows and you don't see the menu bar, Learn how to turn it on.
  3. When you see a message asking if you want to locate the file, click search.
     • If you know the location of the file, point to it iTunes and try to read your content.
     • If you do not know the location of the file, search for it:
       Mac: Press ⌘ and space control your keyboard, and then type the name of the movie title, app, song, album or artist.
       Windows: Press the Windows on your keyboard, and then type the name of the movie title, app, song, album or artist. If your keyboard does not have a Windows key, press the Escape (Esc) and control (Ctrl) on your keyboard.
     • If the file is on a network drive or external, plug on the volume of disk or external network.
     • If you find your objects in the trash or recycle bin, restore them to their previous location:
       Mac: Control-click or right-click on the item and choose put back.
       Windows: Right-click on the item and choose restore.
  4. Once you retrieve the file, use Get new Info to locate the file, and then point iTunes to the correct location.

  See you soon!

• Suddenly missing iTunes library

  Today I went to Itunes on my desktop of Windows 10 playing a song in Itunes to find my entire missing library. I don't know what happened to my entire library to disappear? My entire library is intact my my Iphone 6 just for information. Finally, I played a song in Itunes on Friday, July 29, 2016. My current computer is Corsair 500R computer, Gigabyte G1 Gaming 7 motherboard with Intel i7 Skylake case to unlocked and 16 gigs GSKILL Trident DDR4 Ram. I have Itunes version 12.4.3.1. I had almost 15 gigs of music in my library and I would like to find a way to get this library. Any help would be appreciated.

  I wanted people to know that I don't have a recent database or my Itunes library file.

• ITunes library and duplicate the items and folders of Windows Explrr

  I have a 2 or 3 General questions on iTunes.  I download all my iTunes on a PC and play really.  That is why the questions about iTunes folders in Windows Explorer.

  1 how to produce duplicates in the library?  I have loads.  I saw the advice to remove them.  This helps a little but it's still a task to be piecemeal.    How to stop what is happening in the first place?

  2 in addition to the duplicates.  Last night I went in Windows Explorer on the PC that I use to download and play iTunes and entered the iTunes Media/Music folder.   I walked carefully each folder album deleting duplicate here.   However, on opening iTunes itself today, duplicates all seem to be still there in the library list.   Why it did not work?  ITunes is not loading the content of this folder?  If this is not the case, why I was informed to support?

  3 What does the symbol of iCloud next to some of the tunes?  If I run the cursor over them, it says 'download '.   But surely I downloaded it when I bought and added to my library?    Why should I download it again?  That this symbol that the melody in question can not play if the PC is offline?

  4 one of the songs in my library list appeared today in my Windows Explorer iTunes Media/Music folder.   I can I have accidentally deleted while I was removing the duplicates it and have now downloaded it in the album in this folder.    Probably so, iTunes library does not constantly in the folder of music on a Windows PC?    He only takes over here if the backup is necessary?

  If so OK but other files appear in the library that do not exist and he asks me if I want to find the file?

  I guess that my confusion stems from the assumption that the iTunes Media/Music in Windows Explorer folder should indicate precisely what will appear in the library in the app.

  Vondegru,

  With regard to questions 2 and 4: iTunes does not automatically "load" all the files in the folders.  You can do an analysis of initial unique optional optional when you install iTunes, which will add all are compatible files in the iTunes library.  After that, files not added unless you take action to add.

• Previous iTunes library. ITL?

  Can I remove previous libraries and temporary files iTunes without harming the current "iTunes Library.itl" or "iTunes Library.xml?"

  Current system:

  MacBook Pro i7 15 "retina (end 2013)

  16 GB OF RAM

  iTunes version 12.4.1.6

  Size of folder Support 1.46 TB on a NAS Drobo5N

  The database has become erratic, duplication of entire directories and lose the default folders.

  I was able to fix much of this behavior of coping files on iTunes, using iTunes to delete the file, and then re adding them.

  Are these previous iTunes libraries and the temporary files needed? Is it possible to use the iTunes interface to remove them, or can I just do it in the finder without evil?

  Thank you for any help...

  1. No, unless your current iTunes made reference to something in them.

  2. move to a different folder in the Finder and check the current library before deleting.

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• Cannot move iTunes library.itl on the desktop

  When I turned on my PC today, I found all my iTunes library has been deleted no aparent reason.

  Fortunately, I had saved a copy of the library and all the playlists in my hard drive, but in any case whenever I open iTunes, now it says that the library is corrupted, so I have to import the saved old library every time. My music is not lost, but it's annoying to do this, of course.

  So I read Apple's Support article on the recovery of the iTunes library, and I tried to follow the steps but when I come to step "Drag the iTunes Library.itl file to your desktop", an error (I'll try to translate it because my computer is in Spanish, it may not be the exact words) :

  "This file cant't be moved due to an unexpected error." If you continue to receive this error, you can use the error code to get help for this problem.

  Error 0 x 80070570: the file or directory is corrupted or unreadable. »

  How may I order? I know the other option is to delete it, but I can't do either.

  It is without saying I have not iTunes open when I do this task, of course.
  Also, I looked at the error, but Microsoft did not have an appropriate response. He asked me if I tried to change the directory of the file, but I'm afraid I don't know how to do it.

  My operating system is Windows 7

  Any help is appreciated, thanks

  Restart your computer. See the empty/corrupted after upgrade/crash iTunes library.

  TT2

• Any iTunes library appears in Apple music

  Forgive me for being prolific; I'm going to do my best to explain the problem I have. I just downloaded the beta version of iOS 10 and now my iTunes library all - playlists, artists, songs, everything - no appears in the library of my phone in the music app as my music that I have synced my Apple account. (Isn't that what iTunes game is - how can I get that free?)

  Point is - I don't want to do. I don't want to disable iCloud music library in the middle because then I lose everything I've already put in music Apple but also and especially because I'm not in a position to have a library with Apple music if iCloud music library has been disabled.

  Basically: I want my iTunes library and the library of my phone to be remain separate while "iCloud music library" on in the settings. I know this is possible because I believe that I had this problem once before and solved. After that, I had been months go without a problem (until I downloaded the beta version). Once again, since I have had this same problem once before and resolved I don't think it's because I use a beta iOS. For some reason any installation of the beta version only seems to have caused the problem to recur.

  Thank you in advance for help you!

  (1) you are not supposed to ask questions about the beta on open forums software. See the document to which you agreed on beta support.

  (2) music Apple includes a version of the game.  Now uses a sound library centralized in iCloud.

  I can't deal with your specific problem because I do not use music from Apple.  You may need to disable iCloud in the iTunes preferences?  If the installation of the OS x software caused this he may have returned to the default settings. Install OSX should not affect your mobile directly.