Any software that can rebuild iTunes songs lost to Unknown Artist/ Unknown Album

Try running the script again, but this time point it at C:\Users\~\Music\iTunes\Music\CDs MP3. It should then be able to locate anything stored in \<Artist>\<Album> folders below that.

Repeat with \Other Music Folders\ or the various subfolders inside that as the starting point for a search.

tt2

How do I point the script at just those folders? Do I need change the iTunes Medial Folder location to that particular folder in preferences? No matter which tracks I select in iTunes the script wants to run for all 4353 tracks. I couldn't get it to run on just a couple like you suggest in your instructions.

Lost & Found Playlists

Create a playlist called Found, select everything in Music and drag it into the Found playlist. It should only add the tracks without exclamation marks. Create a smart playlist called Lost matching All the rules Playlist is Music and Playlist is not Found. Your lost tracks will be in this playlist.

If you select tracks before calling the script it should only attempt repairs on the selected tracks.

Don't change the iTunes Media folder. When you run FindTracks it attempts to identify the active media folder based on the location of a track that isn't lost. One of the dialog boxes offered by the script lets you edit this path before the script goes on to search for things.

tt2

Weird, I've compared the version online with the one I have here and they seem to be the same. 😕

Line 141 reads:

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You can edit that, putting the path you want searched inside the quotes. Hopefully that still functions as intended.

tt2

That means a file has come back with a blank value from the Kind column. I haven't run into that before. If you enable the Kind column and sort it can you see any files with empty values and if so is there something else that they have in common?

tt2

Got the v14 file! Thanks! Unfortunately same error now on line 524...

See Re: Finding itunes files for a more recent discussion on the FindTracks script which includes a link to the download page for the current version.

tt2

There are tons of iTunes AppleScripts around for things like this, but this sounds more like a job for a tested and reliable backup sorry 😟

File > Library > Organize Library... > Reorganize files in the folder "iTunes Media".

tt2

Firstly are you using it on a small selection of tracks to start with? It may have problems if the "current" item is a cloud link or a stream URL.

tt2

Interesting, some kind of ISP based cache perhaps. Try FindTracksV14 - they can't have cached that because it didn't exist until 30 seconds ago.

tt2

This may be a dumb question, but how do I run the script? I didn't see anything to download when I clicked on the link above. Looks like you are up to version 34? I'm running Windows 10.

Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion. I made the change and the script now runs only on the selection of tracks I choose. I'm still not getting the second prompt though.