Songs Disappearing from iTunes

The bitrate is irrelevant because 1) I have a 16g iPhone and 2) only 140 songs.

Just asking if you'd enabled the option... If you had I would have recommended you disable it. Another user has mentioned files going missing after having used the Get Album Artwork feature.

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Actually, the songs that are disappearing do not have the album work from their CD.

Itunes continues to wipe songs randomly from my ipad and iphone on a daily basis. I just accept it now that it is a broken product and use a 3rd party app to back up and reload whenever there's a particular need.

I know people are trying to help with the technical suggestions, but it really misses the point that a software with this many uses should just be click and play without needing technical support every verse end.

I am flabbergasted that Apple haven't yet sorted this problem out.

As of Mavericks, whenever I run iTunes, it hits my Synology NAS continuously, whenever iTunes is running. I wondered what it was doing until I started noticing songs disappearing from albums. Now looking at dozens (or perhaps more) of albums that are no longer complete.

I know this isn't constructive, but iTunes is the most foul, stinking pile of **** I have ever interacted with. It's the worst thing about Apple by a long shot.

kiwibrew wrote:

I know this isn't constructive,

Then why post it?

Because it it is a fact!!!!

This thread started february 2009 and problem of missing music / videos / files etc has still not been rectified.

Apple have been shambolic in not accepting and fixing these problems.

ITunes is officially the worst music programme on the market - useless!

The amount of money wasted on purchasing from iTunes and time burning cd's to iTunes only for them to disappear is scandalous.

I know that many people involved in this discussion are trying to help and rectify the problems but they are completely missing the point, iTunes is a programme with a basic function to store and play media and Apple should be getting this right - its not rocket science!!!!

Actually, my issue is that I have an iPhone 5s (running IOS 7.0.2 of course) and after I transfer some songs I dumped from a CD, I move them to my iTunes Library on my computer, then drag them to my iPhone. About 12 hours later, some songs are GONE. Completly disappeared from my iPhone's music app. My computer's iTunes is up to date too. Anyone help?

+1 to major customer dissatisfaction

I manually burned hundreds of CDs I purchased and now have lost over 150 GB of random tracks and/or full albums.

I have recently noticed that all this music has disappeared from Time Machine backups also, which only go back for about 18 months now, and this is 15 years worth of music.

Just wanted to add to the pages of complaints to make it harder for Apple to pretend this is not real.

I have been an Apple owner for 10 years, I was always so happy.

Now I am being trained to expect poor service from "genuises" who seem to be instructed to rote learn excuses rather than actually solving problems, (and some of them actually state off the record that they agree Apple company policy is poor but there is nothing they can do).

I'm also being taught to expect that Apple product flaws are a fact of life and that the Apple is turning into more of a Lemon every year.

...35 pages later ....

I too have manually burned many CDs I purchased and now find it missing from "itunes". Initally when I bought my lap-top I was thinking what a miracle it was to have all my music backed up and ready to listen to on itunes or my ipod and now so much stuff is missing, great stuff, I am just playing my old vinyl records and trying to forget that a company called "Apple" exists. They are truely evil in ways we will never know. I wonder if anyone has read all 35 pages? Soon to be 36, 37, 38 of complaints.. no fix in sight. I want my time back. Burning a hundred CD's takes a bit of time. I want my elation back. To be continued...

Initally when I bought my lap-top I was thinking what a miracle it was to have all my music backed up and ready to listen to on itunes or my ipod and now so much stuff is missing

Since you backed up iTunes, just restore the backup to your computer.

Burning a hundred CD's takes a bit of time.

Why do you need to reburn any CD, let alone hundreds?

"Why do you need to reburn any CD, let alone hundreds?"

Well let me clarify: It takes a few min to add a cd to the library, multiply this by 10 or 50 cd's, or how ever big your cd library is mine is lets say "hundreds." That's a lot of time just waiting for your computer to load the info. It adds up. You can add it to your ipod someday or if you happen to loose the CD or someone used it as a coaster etc. No problem. It's stored in your i tunes library, right?

WRONG.

Start over.

Other question:

"Since you backed up iTunes, just restore the backup to your computer."

That's a good idea. I do that, it works but it doesnt keep things from dissapearing.

Turns out there is always something missing. The 'gaps' between saving and backing up...

tunes vanish before you can save them, whole albums etc. There is no way of knowing how much is

actually missing.

Thanks for yoru questions.

Happy New Year!

bingowashisnameo wrote:

"Why do you need to reburn any CD, let alone hundreds?"

Well let me clarify:

Oh, you mean RIP CDs to your library, not burn.

Okay. Burn is when you create a CD (because the laser burns the info onto the CD).

or if you happen to loose the CD or someone used it as a coaster etc. No problem. It's stored in your i tunes library, right?

I wouldn't rely on iTunes as a backup for CDs. Other way around perhaps. CD is a backup for iTunes.

Under "Preferences" and then "Advanced" uncheck "Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized".

I had the same problem, where i have over 261,000 songs in my library and over 9,000 disappeared. I have had no trouble since unchecking "Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized". After unchecking, reload your backup.