I opened iTunes tonight to find some songs (they all seem to be from 1 folder) skip/ play 1-5 seconds of garbled sound before skipping. Their times are also wrong (one song used to be around 5 minutes, it now says it's 0:32). I have approved my computer, reinstalled iTunes, logged in, copied files to the iTunes media folder but to no avail.
Help?
Windows, 10
Check your hard drive for errors. See https://www.thewindowsclub.com/disk-error-checking-windows-8 for example. If possible restore the affected tracks from backup. If you don't already have a backup see Backup your iTunes for Windows library with SyncToy - Apple Community. If these are purchased tracks you can delete the current copies then redownload.
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Check your hard drive for errors. See https://www.thewindowsclub.com/disk-error-checking-windows-8 for example. If possible restore the affected tracks from backup. If you don't already have a backup see Backup your iTunes for Windows library with SyncToy - Apple Community. If these are purchased tracks you can delete the current copies then redownload.
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Do these same files play OK in Windows Media Player or Media Monkey? If not I would suspect some sort of file level corruption that has perhaps been copied to your backup before it became apparent. Restoring the library database file won't have any impact on the media files themselves if they've been damaged.
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Can you re-rip/re-download from the original source?
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See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - Apple Community for advice on media recovery.
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I don't suppose you configured File History did you? See https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/b8/2012/07/10/protecting-user-files-with-file-history/
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You're welcome. 🙂
Time to Backup your iTunes for Windows library with SyncToy - Apple Community 😉.
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Hard drive had no errors. Back up just brought back the same errors. Even tried restoring to a previous library back up and it did the same thing. What's annoying is that it's like it can't find the files, but isn't giving me the "locate this file" prompt I'm used to seeing.
If it weren't over 100 songs I'd go through my manual solution: delete the song from the library and re-add it.
EDIT: that solution isn't working now... it's bringing the error over even when re-added...
It's over 100 songs... so no, not able to re-rip. To re-download at this point would be piracy/ extremely expensive. Why this is isolated to 1 folder baffles me. Everything worked and now over 100 don't. At this rate it'd be easier to just move the entire playlist to Media Player and solely use iTunes to update my iPod.
Nope. I've only in the last week or so FINALLY got my laptop to function properly (no thanks to Microsoft or Acer for that). It was locked into Windows 10 and it would crash when left unattended. I've only just got the work around, so there had been no back up set since I transferred files back over. I've tried the hard drive I've backed up to, but they now magically don't work either. At a loss. My only hope now is to try and get them from my iPod and put them on the computer.
Apparently not. Weird that they all played fine on iTunes 3 nights ago and are now suddenly corrupted. Whelp, this stinks.
TouchCopy did the trick in the end. It's been a long process, but certainly easier than trying to find them otherwise. Thanks for the help :)
Songs playing garbled, skipping.
