Music not showing up in iTunes

Pointing the media folder preference to a new location doesn't add any media to the library. use File > Add Folder to Library for that.

Assuming you had a working library at one point this post may have something to offer, otherwise if you're going to end up trying to connect your iPhone to a "new" library it may pay to review the user tip Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device first.

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You can restore much of the look & feel of the previous version with these shortcuts:

• ALT to temporarily display the menu bar
• CTRL+B to show or hide the menu bar
• CTRL+S to show or hide the sidebar
• CTRL+/ to show or hide the status bar (won't hide for me on Win XP)
• Click the magnifying glass top right and untick Search Entire Library to restore the old search behaviour
• Use View > Hide <Media Kind> in the cloud or Edit > Preferences > Store and untick Show iTunes in the cloud purchases to hide the cloud items. The second method eliminates the cloud status column (and may let iTunes start up more quickly)
• If you don't like having different coloured background & text in the Album view use Edit > Preferences > General and untick Use custom colours for open albums, movies, etc.

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You're welcome. 🙂

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The easiest way I have found in vista is to first open itunes and go to menu and choose add folder. Then open up your music folder and copy every album you want to add. I did them all at the same time) then go to "itunes tree"

open the

> itunes tree

> then itunes media

(then paste it to the )

>automatically add to itunes (folder)

I did this and it added all my music to itunes and converted anything that wasn't "mp3" or "aac" to "aac"

it took a long time for the computer to add and convert but it's all in there now! good luck!

also, when I downloaded itunes on my windows 7 computer it added them automatically? don't know why vista didn't?

Just an intuitive suggestion : Try getting support from Apple support to find out if your iPhone is associated with current Apple ID with which you log on from iTunes to connect to Apple store. If your phone is associated with some other apple ID, you may have a problem I guess.

A work around for what you intend to do. I have a somewhat similar problem. My music libraries shows up in ITunes, but I cannot create a new folder or play list in iTunes that gets synchronised with my iPhone, i.e. the new folders/playlists are not showing up in iPhone. Similarly new folder/playlist I create in iPhone does not get reflected in iTunes. I had a work around.(i) I copied my music file in one of existing play list in iTunes that is also synchronised with iPhone. (ii) I synchronised iPhone and music files got copied to iPhone to this playlist. (iii) I created a new playlist in iPhone with iPhone features. (iv) I added the new music file visible in first playlist into which I had sunchronised my music file to new playlist where I wanted it (v) Finally I removed the music file from first playlist where iTunes had copied the file. The music file is now visible in my desired playlist.

Worked for me! Thanks!

You're welcome. 🙂

That first link is now better covered by the user tip Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash.

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Very new to iTunes, so any help would be highly appreciated.

I am trying to use my NAS (Network) Drive to use all of my 200GB of music and of course I would like to have this music synced to my iTunes on my MacBook. So I moved the default library folder, but nothing happened as you are saying. So I tried this add folder option.

This option does the work, but seems like an one time thing.. What happens if I start deleting-adding music? It doesn't seem to keep the library synced with what's on the drive. Am I expected to do this add-folder thing every time there is a change to my folders?

In Windows Media Player (yeap, that's one of the few really good software by MS), as long as you set your library to be somewhere it automatically checks the folder and updates the index whenever the player is open.

PS: Please note that I am trying to avoid using iTunes to organize my music files, meaning that I have spent a decent amount of time creating Mp3 tags and folder structuring, so trying to keep those intact.

See iTiunes Folder Watch for a tool that can update iTunes to changes to the media folder in Windows. For Mac you might need a couple of items from Doug's Scripts to achieve the same effect.

Use Edit > Preferences > Advanced and turn off the options to Keep... and Copy... if you want iTunes to leave your folder structure alone. See Make a split library portable for reasons why you might want to consider building the library in the standard layout. Anything you rip, download, convert, or transfer from a device with iTunes is going to end up in that layout to start with.

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