Q: Songs Disappearing from iTunes

I have many songs on my computer and same problem as many here. Music just disappears at random. Is apple going to fix this? I spent literally months getting all my CD's up on iTunes how foolish of me. Shoudl have listened to my buddy telling me this is nto the way to go. APPLE FIX THIS! I have purchased many songs and videos and another funny thing - a lot of my disappearances are CD's I uploaded - is that intentional? My music disappears hoping I am going to rebuy it from iTunes? FIX the darn thing 4^*%$&%^$#^$%#@

I too have recently had the same problem as others here. I just used the search function in windows xp to search all local drives and Time Capsule and found none of the over 4000 song files I've been maintaining since my first Ipod. These were purchased and from my own collection of cd's, cassette tapes, and vinyl. needless to say I'm a bit bummed since it takes a while to get the cassetes and vinyl digitized. Is it a conspericy to get people to pay for iCloud?

Wow!!!  Still going...

hi, here from Spain. That happens to me for long time ago. I've restored individual albums where I've detected that random songs have disappeared. It's frustrating. You have to rip again and again that albums!!!

That's the biggest problem Apple has in his history and it doesn't matter!! Programmers of Apple, please change the behaviour of iTunes, invent another type of database or whatever else, but this is UNACCEPTABLE!!!

I'm not sure that this will continue to happen if you subscribe to iTunes match, but certainly, I'm losing my faith... Apple, do something!! we've payed a lot for your iphones, ipads, ipods and macs... how can you live with that problem? do something!

I've been following this thread for awhile now although not religiously.  Has Apple ever acknowledged to this problem and have they ever indicated that they'd do something about it?  Silence is golden but not in this circumstance.  How  a company so dominating  let this problem affect so many thousands of people is beyond me.  There's only reason that I can think of that they woud not admit to this.......

I just get notifications that other people have the same issues. I have made backups of my library and my music files on several external HDD, as I found out, I lost some songs prior to making the backups, thought I had them all. funny thing is I have the songs on my iPod still bt no longer on my computer, so when I sync from the iPod it did not transfer them. looked in my Time machine backups, guess what - songs missing there too - same as in iTunes of course. I have so many songs, it is not obvious if a whole CD disappears here and there unless you try to play those songs, and then you get an error can not be found. Using iCloud is not an option for me unless I want to keep paying for items I already paid for and increase my overal cost for my music collection.

Bottom line - there is a problem with how iTunes handles your music library. Just liek any other Database, infomration disappearing would and is not going to be acceptable. So dear Apple iTunes programmers - FIX IT!

Petrusrock1 wrote:

 

So dear Apple iTunes programmers

I suggest you tell Apple -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

PROBLEM SOLVED

Same thing happened to me. I am using an external hardrive to store my itunes, and am using it between two computers. Every time I drag new songs in to itunes (i have it set to auto-organize) i tunes gets confused and moves my entire library into a subfolder call Music in where are all my music is.  Check that this is not the case with you as well.

I guess this is where the cloud comes in handy.

Hope that helps.

I've wrote to Apple's feedback, hope it helps a little... please, also do ye.

Lukasz, that solution doens't work for me. That happened to me a long time ago, and after seeking for a solution the best one was to create an "alias" of the iTunes folder on my external disk inside the "Music" folder on my iMac. The songs are still disappearing, although. I've detected that sometimes it seems in relation with iTunes lists. When I remove or change the content of a list it can lead to the disappearence of songs.

still waiting for a response from Apple

Hi All,

I too have also have this problem today on my MacBook Pro running Lion and iTunes10.5.3(3).  I wanted to copy some songs to a USB device to use in the car, and noticed some folders were empty.  I then opened iTunes and found some songs with an exclaimaiton mark next to them.  Clicking them brought the dialog box, would you like ot locate them, yes or no, clicking yes opens your home folder so you can find them yourself???  OK, no problem, i used spotlight and I found no folders for the albums.  All albums I ripped from original CD's bought and paid for.  I've not ever purchased any music from iTunes.  Lucky for me I have another copy of my library running on an old G5, I have yet to compare the libraries or iTunes version of these two repositories.  I will post back with my comparison.

Dave

Just to update, my G-5 is running Leapard fully updated, with iTunes 10.5.2(11) and all files are intact.  Don't know if I will update that yet.

Dave

I have the same problem... Songs just keep dissapearing from Itunes. At the begining i thought i was crazy or something. But then i realized songs were really dissapearing from my playlists. I have a playlist to which I add only specially selected songs. I rarely delete songs from it. And couple of weeks ago I remember having exactly 200 songs, now I have 197. And I don't know which ones are missing...

I don't think your reading these posts sir! The songs have even disappeared from the backups.

djbiggyc wrote:

 

I don't think your reading these posts sir! The songs have even disappeared from the backups.

How are songs disappearing from your backup?

and  what does this have to do with iTunes? iTunes does not make backups.

No but Apple designed the Time Capsule on which I backup religiously.