Songs Disappearing from iTunes

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I have this same problem whole stack of songs missing, the file location should be right but the songs have been removied from the directory and are no longer i the directory.

People think iTunes has a bad rep because of it being an apple product available to Windows, but in fact it should be down to the fact that this is a terrible applciation that when I am forced it actually deletes my files.

iTunes is MALWARE.

Same problem. A month ago I had many exclamation points and reloaded most from an external harddrive that luckily had most of the old songs. Now it's happened again and I noticed that most songs starting with V are gone! Some old, some recently downloaded. Also when I am in iTunes DJ the refresh button doesn't work. What's going on?

Malware implies it is deliberate. Are you saying the programmers deliberately coded in random erasing of files? If so, send an e-mail to Apple.

I just checked and most of my songs starting with U thru Z are missing. Too wierd. E-mail Apple where? Under support in iTunes?

Mine are all over the place. Some are tunes I've purchased from iTunes and others are songs that I've copied from my own cd's onto iTunes. I just bought an album from iTunes, and it starts with the letter "I". It's disappeared too. I mean they are all on iTunes on my computer but they disappear from my iPhone.

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