copying songs from itunes onto flash drive

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copying songs from itunes onto flash drive

im trying to copy some songs from itunes onto a flash drive so that i can put them on my laptop and from there get them onto my zune. the method i am using is dragging songs onto the desktop and then into the flash, because copying directly from itunes into the flash causes itunes to freeze up for an indefinite amount of time.
HOWEVER, after about copying 4 songs from an album into the flashdrive, it said:
The item "05 One Love.mp3" cannot be replaced because it is invisible.
i tried various ways of trying to get this song onto the flash (which can hold up to 2 gigabytes of stuff) with no avail, so i moved onto the rest of the album.
and the verdict is this- songs 5 through 11 cannot be replaced because they are "invisible".
whatever that means, i dont know because i dont want to replace the song, just copy it.
anyone have a solution to this?

mac OS X, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Dec 28, 2008 6:49 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 29, 2008 5:37 PM in response to cindersarsenic

and pleaseeee, im kinda getting desperate for help here.....
if anyone has a solution to this, i will be glad to try it out.
because...the only other way is to burn CDs off of the playlist and that would take a lot of CDs, or to buy more microsoft points (an expensive option).
so please answer this...

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Answer 2

samdogmom

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Dec 29, 2008 7:17 PM in response to cindersarsenic

Instead of trying to copy things inside iTunes, why don't you navigate to the actual song files on your hard disk and then copy and paste the ones you want onto your flash drive?

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Answer 3

nancybr

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Dec 29, 2008 7:38 PM in response to samdogmom

Thank you. This also helped my problem of my mp3 files not copying to my mp3 folder on my desktop.

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Answer 4

Dec 29, 2008 9:46 PM in response to samdogmom

i tried that, and even just plain dragging and dropping, but it didnt work.
i even checked the permission and compared them between the "invisible" songs and the "non-invisible" songs, but they were the same.
this is getting to be extremely perplexing...

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Answer 5

samdogmom

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Dec 30, 2008 6:11 AM in response to cindersarsenic

What a strange problem! I googled and found this on the internet: http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-149628.html

I'm not sure it will help, but it might be worth a look.

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Answer 6

Dec 30, 2008 10:41 AM in response to samdogmom

well i definitely dont have FileVault installed, but the only thing different is that my music is still there, it just wont copy onto my flashdrive. his problem seems to be that his music is just invisible alltogether...
but the permissions and everything on the songs is read and write, no matter if its the "invisible" song or the "visible" song.
the only alternative to getting around this may be to just plug in my zune, but then the icon doesnt show up on the desktop...

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Answer 7

samdogmom

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Dec 30, 2008 10:46 AM in response to cindersarsenic

Can you load a Zune using iTunes? Did you try to burn an audio CD of some of these "invisible" songs? Does this work? If it does, can you import the CD tracks on your other computer's music player?

I know this is not the way you want to do things...but it may get this unstuck.

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Answer 8

Dec 30, 2008 6:11 PM in response to samdogmom

whenever i plug in the zune to the mac, it just starts charging the zune.
it doesnt show up in itunes or on the desktop.
and its not that i dont want to put them on a CD (well it kind of is) but its just that many of the blank CDs are blu-ray ones or something strange and those dont function well with music at all.
but its worth a shot anyways, i'll see what blanks i can dig up.

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