Hey all,
I am trying to play my itunes songs and each time i oress on a song to play it comes up with a message saying unable to loctae original file. When i type in the song name in the search nothing comes up. Where have all my songs gone???
Windows 8
Your songs were not correctly copied to your new computer. If your music is still on your old computer or your iPod/iPhone, follow these steps...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Also these...https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141
Hey megsiphone,
Thanks for your reply,
Seems I wasn't clear. I haven't moved my songs to another pc, I updated iTunes and now I can't locate any of my music when I try to play them. They are listed, just unable to play . If you can help that is great
Can you locate your music on your hard drive? It may be worth re-importing it to iTunes as detailed here
Where are the tracks? Where does iTunes think they are? Use CTRL+I to Get Info. on a broken track, say No when prompted to locate and look at the summary tab. The location will begin file://localhost. Now find out where the file really is, just search for the filename & extension, e.g. 01 Help!.mp3
It may be possible to move a section of folders to where iTunes expects to find them, or correct a preference file if the difference between paths is an additional \Music folder. Alternatively, I have a script called FindTracks that may be able to relink the media if pointed at the folder where the files are stored.
tt2
Hey i did what you told me to do but i can't find the file that it is directing me to. Funnily, I can access all my music through my Iphone, but not on my PC. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 🙂
Can you post back one of the paths beginning file://localhost? It may give me clues as to what has happened. Have you searched the entire computer for a target file name? You may need to jump through some hoops to get Windows to search properly... Did anything happen prior to things going wrong like a crash or working with another media player?
tt2
lost music
