Songs Disappearing from iTunes

I, too, have been having this problem. Lumping iTunes will just somehow "forget" about some of my songs, so every time I sync my iPod (something I started doing begrudgingly a couple years ago when I found out that's the best way to get accurate statistics on my songs), it's an adventure in song finding, especially fun when I go to play an old favorite that - surprise, surprise - ISN'T THERE ANYMORE. I don't know if this is related, but iTunes is also screwing up album art on some stuff, don't really know what's up with that. I've about had it, though, I'm just about fed up with Apple, and it told me that my standard username, "Maziecat," contained a banned word...DAFUQ, APPLE

Random missing music- files beginning with numbers or starting with U - Z. ***.

Why can't Apple fix this and their Mail while they're at it.

I thought I was fixed. Last night I realized after reinstalling iTunes in an attempt to fix this issue I had not turned the "compression" setting back on. This is where you can tell iTunes to down-sample to 128bit while syncing to the iPod, for example. When I turned that back on, about half of my latest batch of songs to sync went missing.

Getting closer to a specific test case. Those of you that have had songs go missing, are you using this feature?

Yes, I've been using this feature since they introduced it for the latest iPod nano and I have the song deleting problem.

I think it is time that all users of iTunes and iPoda etc stop buying songs. I have purchased thousands of Dollars from Apple in music and until this is fixed (yes it is still happening to me) I will not buy another song or book or anything else from them.

This has been going on for a very long time now, and if this is correct there are many people that have lost songs they worked hard to get on their i-device and paid money for to have save.

How do I get all the music back I am losing? This ***** and is totally and uterly unacceptabel to go on for this long.

We want thsi fixed dear Apple support team!

I made one big mistake - trusting apple with my music collection.

Dear Apple;

I was reading some of the posts above mine, I also had called Apple and received similar answers then the people above.

Can anyone tell me (at Apple) why we all have the same symptoms? We are all sleep walking deleting our songs right?

I have songs disappear I purchased from Apple and besides adding things over many years, I have not deleted a single thing from iTunes.

I have in my current purchased list 517 items. Music, Films, Books.

I thought Apple was a responsive company to their customers. As i was setting up a new playlist I discovered once again more songs lost today - random. Just one here, one there, or a whole album gone I know I put on there, cant find it - locate window pops up, so the text line is on there but the song is gone and no longer on the computer. I haev one particular song where i Purchased the song as well as the Video to the song same time same day. Video is still there, song is now missing.

I am upset at Apple. I own a lot of Apple products, as I said before, until thsi issue is resolved I will nto purchase another. I hope Apple has not turned with its success into just another "give a ****" giant corporations.

All of my music "came back." Not a thing missing now.

Yes...But why would that cause iTunes to delete music? And why hasn't Apple fixed this problem yet? At this point, I'm tempted to download some alternative iPod - PC software, just so I don't have to use any more of Apple's stuff. Plus, that means I can free up a TON of space by uninstalling all that junk that comes with iTunes.

Maziekit wrote:

Plus, that means I can free up a TON of space by uninstalling all that junk that comes with iTunes.

Such as?

I'vealso had this problem for years, with a large music library. 200 GBs. Repointing iTunes to a song is irritating; having to restore it is doubly so. And the problem is that iTunes is the heart of an ecosystem. If you have AppleTV or do music streaming or whatever, you are stuck with iTunes. Apple needs to fix this, and a good start would be some sort of maintenance utility. Maybe one that backs up the XML files and then loks for errors each time it runs.

Am trying to figure out what happens and the more I read the more random it gets. The only thing I know is that I had 1224 songs in iTunes and now I have 925. My iPhone and iPad had 7 gigs of music each and now less than 5!

I don't even know which songs are missing ! I can see it from the number quoted in the library.

Here is what worked for me:

open itunes>file>add to library>click your user name>music>itunes>itunes Media>music. then click open.

it will import only the missing songs. In my case the files were actualy still in my library but itunes could not see them for sm reason.

i hope that helps someone!

Same problem. Downloaded a song last night, it was gone by this morning. Why isnt't apple responding?

jasonaa30 wrote:

Why isnt't apple responding?

You mean why aren't they responding in these user-to-user forums?

Or did you contact them via iTunes support?

I mean to the forums. I haven't tried calling them b/c I figured with this many complaints Apple must chime in at some point