#itunes fix

Fixing missing songs from downloaded CD's

This walk through is for when your music will show up in your iTunes library but not on your device, your device will skip a song or just wont play it, or when your looking at your playlist of your device when its plugged into iTunes and some songs appear grey or have a dotted circle next to them on the left hand side.

1. plug your iPhone into your computer and open iTunes

2. find the songs that are not playing, usually they will be in grey and not the normal black and/or the will have and write them down (writing down is only really necessary when multiple songs are missing.)

3. eject your device using the eject icon

4. repeat step 3 until the songs that were grey no longer appear

5. open the playlist that had the songs, but now are not there anymore, and re-add the songs from your list

6. back up your device

7. eject and your done!

This sometimes happens when your adding music from CD's because either

1. you did not eject your device properly, with the eject icon

2. CD's are not apple bought and they just glitch, the system recognizes that glitch and removes it thus removing the song.

As a side note ALWAYS backup your device to your computer manually not through the cloud. its much better to have a "hard copy" of your devices backup. Cloud content is much easier to lose than a copy on your hard drive.

I hope this helps!!

Please message me if you need any other help I might be able to!

P.s. I have posted this same walk though on an apple discussion thread under my id of Derezzed19, I did not steal this I simply reposted it because I know many others have had this problem and I wanted to get the answer out there to them.

This is caused by the iTunes library being changed. To fix it, hold Shift (Option on Mac) then click on Start>All Files/Programs>ITunes>ITunes. (You have to hold Shift/Option down before clicking on Start or it won’t work). After iTunes opens it should display a window asking if you would like to createa new library or choose one. Select Choose Library then find the correct iTunes Library file which should have an .itl extension (How to see file extensions). Mine was located in C:\Users\Username\My Music. It could also be in My Music\iTunes Media or Music\iTunes Music. You may need to search for it with Windows Explorer.

I hope this helps others like me who had thousands of songs with exclamation marks, and the only thing you can find online is to manually find each song, or do some other over-complicated “fix” that doesn’t work. Or if you contact Apple they give you the old tech support run-around of update iTunes, restart your PC , stand on your head, etc.

iTunes did a weird thing

I added a bunch of new music to iTunes lately (not bought from the store) and a bunch of songs started doing this weird thing where somewhere between 90 and 30 seconds from the end, the song would just skip to the next. Which was super aggravating. I tried deleting the songs and reimporting, which was the common fix I found online, no deal. Skipping problem persisted.

What I finally got to work…