Relocating all my songs through iTunes Match

So I recently lost all my music files in a hard drive mishap. Luckily they live on iTunes Match. My problem is that every time I want to play a song for the first time I have to:


  1. Double click the song
  2. I get prompted to re-locate the file it can't find
  3. I cancel this prompt since these files no longer exist
  4. Now the song will play via the iTunes cloud version


Once it's established this way it seems to be good for all subsequent playings. But this is a tedious little dance to do for over 16,000 files. I can't just select all of the songs and set this to action. Is there any way to automate or batch process through this?

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Jan 7, 2022 1:55 PM

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Posted on Jan 7, 2022 2:09 PM

You can select a batch of tracks you know to be missing, right-click, and use remove download, you can then right-click the same selection and use download to pull fresh copies. I'd suggest batches of a screenful. When downloading click the activity widget and turn off the option to allow simultaneous downloads as this feature sometimes appears to be a factor in tracks giving unnecessary authorization requests.


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Jan 7, 2022 2:09 PM in response to Steven Blumenthal1

You can select a batch of tracks you know to be missing, right-click, and use remove download, you can then right-click the same selection and use download to pull fresh copies. I'd suggest batches of a screenful. When downloading click the activity widget and turn off the option to allow simultaneous downloads as this feature sometimes appears to be a factor in tracks giving unnecessary authorization requests.


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