iTunes 11 doesn't only show purchased songs. Help!!!

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iTunes 11 doesn't only show purchased songs. Help!!!

Hello everyone!

I opened up iTunes today and it only shows purchased songs and movies that I have in the cloud. It doesn't show songs or movies that I have imported, such as from CD's. Also, all of my playlists are gone! I had tons of songs and movies that have now disappeared!

What's funny though is that iTunes was fine yesterday and all of my songs and movies where there. Also, everything is the same in the iTunes media folder and under prefrences, iTunes is still pointed to that folder.

I have iTunes 11.0.2 and Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.

Help!

Edit: I also noticed that the available songs and movies have a cloud in the corner and whenever I go to play it, it appears has if it's downloading from the cloud.

Message was edited by: bigal326

iTunes-OTHER, Windows 7

Posted on Mar 18, 2013 8:24 PM

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Mar 18, 2013 11:25 PM in response to bigal326

Check your recycling bin for the iTunes library files. Are they there? Then you seem to have the same strange new problem as a number of us--check the 3 or 4 threads near the top of the forum at the moment.

I hope someone can figure out why this is happening all of a sudden. No recent iTunes update, and the fact that it's suddenly happened to a number of us seems to rule out obvious user error.

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Mar 18, 2013 11:42 PM in response to field studies

I checked. Nothing.

Also, I looked in the iTunes/Previous iTunes Libraries and the last one is from November of 2012.

This is sooooooooo frustrating. There is no explanation. Just POOF, all my songs gone. Everything was just fine yesterday.

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lofi bus

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Mar 21, 2013 6:44 PM in response to bigal326

Has the problem been fixed? I just experienced the same problem when loading iTunes, today.

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bigal326 Author

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Mar 21, 2013 7:30 PM in response to lofi bus

Nope. I can't seem to find a solution either. It's as if Apple secretly installed some update that gets rid of all the songs that you didn't purchase from them.

Hopefully someone can find a fix.

😟

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jlyn1980

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Mar 21, 2013 7:55 PM in response to bigal326

I'm glad I'm not the only one that this happened too. I'm beyond frustrated. Everything was fine yesterday and now the only stuff showing up in my iTunes is my purchased music, movies, and tv shows. Podcasts and apps are not showing up.

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bigal326 Author

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Mar 21, 2013 9:26 PM in response to jlyn1980

Exactly what happened to me. Under preferences/advanced, iTunes is still pointed toward the iTunes media folder and all of my songs are there, so they didn't get deleted.

I tried loading the last iTunes library (which is from November 2012) and all of my songs till that point go back, but I'd still have to re-import all the songs since then. I just wish it would go back to the way it was two days ago! I did absolutely nothing for this to happen!

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Mar 21, 2013 10:03 PM in response to bigal326

Hey folks,

I think this got solved (at least it did for me) in one of the parallel threads on the same subject a few days ago. I just took one of the temp library files in my root iTunes media folder and renamed it to replace the (apparently corrupt?) library that had been giving me trouble. Everything was restored and days later it's still stable.

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lofi bus

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Mar 21, 2013 10:45 PM in response to field studies

Tried that and still nothin. Thanks though.

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Mar 21, 2013 10:49 PM in response to lofi bus

Did you try the various temp files? I had five, it appeared, to choose from, but I believe the one I ended up using was "iT 1.tmp" to replace "iTunes Library.itl".

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Mar 22, 2013 3:11 AM in response to bigal326

Hi,

I am having this trouble too. Gone from having a load of stuff in my library to only having purchased items. All the suff is on the drive doing my head in.

Will check the tmp files

Cheers

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lofi bus

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Mar 22, 2013 10:09 AM in response to bigal326

OK...this is beyond frustrating. I've tried a FULL uninstall (everything I could find iTunes related) then reinstalled and got the SAME **** PROBLEM!!

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Mar 22, 2013 8:57 PM in response to field studies

How do I replace "iTunes Library.itl" with "iT 1.tmp"? They are different file types.

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Mar 22, 2013 8:58 PM in response to bigal326

Just rename the latter to the former, extension included. Behind the different extension, they are, it seems, the same filetype.

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bigal326 Author

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Mar 22, 2013 9:31 PM in response to field studies

field studies, you are a genius!!! This fixed it!!!

A detailed tutorial:

Go to the iTunes folder (For me, it's Libraries/Music/iTunes
Delete the file "iTunes Library.itl" (You could also just put it in a backup folder in case this doesn't work for you)
Rename "iT 1.tmp" to "iTunes Library.itl". Even though you change the extension, it still works.
Open up iTunes and you should be back to normal! To be sure, do a search for the last thing you imported.

Thanks to field studies for finding the solution!!!

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Mar 22, 2013 11:11 PM in response to bigal326

Hey, no problem--I was really just passing along another's solution from a different thread. Glad it worked for you too (what a relief, eh?)

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