Comments on: Disappearing Songs in iTunes

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:28:51 +0000

i’ve had itunes libraries get damaged numerous times, losing all the play count data and ratings etc, most songs missing from itunes. but the MP3’s and AAC’s are still in their original folders. i assume everyone here checked that.

Losing valuable files is a good lesson to backup! I periodically make a copy of my itunes music folder on another drive just in case.

By: Mad @ iTunes

Mad @ iTunes — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:01:36 +0000

YES, it sucks. iTunes has f**ked up some where and now every time I go into my music a few more songs go missing. What the hell, Apple!?! I’m extra pissed off about this because alot of my music is really hard to find, even on the internet. Apple and iTunes have really got to get their sh*t back together if they ever want me to make the switch to a Mac.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:56:21 +0000

Hi All, I have a similar but different problem . Our PC Crashed recently and we went out and purchased a MAC – I then left on hols and havent been able to get the Itunes librasy retrieved rom the hard drive of our PC – so currenlty NO itunes library. Anyway two nights ago i went to listen to music on my iphone after downloading a new ringtone (Itunes Top 10 ringtone) and presto now I have now music in library at all – thousnads of songs just gone!!! What?? Has nothing to with syncing – I am interstate and not near another computer! So how can this happen – does Apple sync automatically without approval if you purchase something via I tunes on ur phone??? Is the music still in the phone somewhere

By: Mike Vail

Mike Vail — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:50:48 +0000

After reading your comment something popped in my head. I switched to a Mac over a year ago and since then haven’t lost anything from iTunes. Don’t know if that is because of being on a Mac or just because iTunes stop deleting files. Just a idea.

By: Fran Risquez

Fran Risquez — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:06:30 +0000

Guys, iLounge helped me get this link: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1493 (“Windows confuses iPod with network drive or hard drive and may keep iPod from mounting or songs may seem to disappear”) With this I have retrieved some of the lost albums; now, it’s tricky, because some different albums got lost in the way. My final conclusion will be: if in Windows, keep your music files to your local hard disk, and only use external as back ups, triying to maintain the same drive letter assigned

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:19:40 +0000

The first time ALL my music disappeared from iTunes, I redid it and now just about 1/2 is missing. I read and read and try everything, but no success. So annoying with no real solutions.

By: Aodhán

Aodhán — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:45:05 +0000

This is also happening to me and it is driving me crazy. To be more precise, what is happening is that I open my ITunes library and all of my songs – a few thousand of them – have disappeared, vanished. It has just happened today, for the fifth time this year. Yes, I am aware that I simply go to File ==> Add Folder to Library, and they all come back again. However, like other posters above, I have spent many, many hours rating all my songs and putting them into playlists. And now I am back to the start again. Does anybody in this world know how to stop this most infuriating vanishing of my ITunes Library?

By: Karen Frantz

Karen Frantz — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:30:26 +0000

I have lost thousands of songs many different times— I run a studio and my misc libraries are key to my business—
right now I’m in the middle of producing a show and BAM— I go to make a new playlist and 5,000 songs are just gone— not to mention the hundreds of purchases videos, shows and movies, and music on there too. I have found like 400 songs still on my computer but not the the stuff I really need– I have tried to restore my system— doesn’t work– and this is the 10th time i have had to re-do itunes— PLEASE– someone give me an easier alternative!! I should be working on my show– not playing computer geek–
thanks
Karen

By: Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:39:03 +0000

Hi I am having the same problem with the deleting of song files but very slowly.
the questiton mark appears. Did you find the answer to this yet?
you can reach me at rockinrichardradio@yahoo.com

By: Addy

Addy — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:19:31 +0000

DS >> you're lucky then, because I've checked all over my harddrive and the music files are absolutely NOWHERE. Sometimes iTunes doesn't even give me the courtesy of the grey exclamation point; some of the albums just have one song left in the list. I looked today and half my music was gone; it's like an episode of the twilight zone or something. Its as if the music was never there. the other half has the exclamation points, and so at least on that account its not trying to drive me insane….

Still, I'd like a solution because its kind of extremely ridiculous.