Need Help turingtest2!!!

Hi, select a single broken track. Press CTRL+I to Get Info. Say No when asked to locate the file. Read off the location as given on the summary tab beginning file://localhost. Search the computer for a file with same filename. Post back the two paths. I shoukd be able to suggest repair instructions.

tt2

So as I see it iTunes is looking at:

C:\Users\Mark\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Compilations\Slumdog Millionaire\04 Paper Planes.m4a

But the file has been moved down to

C:\Users\Mark/Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\iTunes Music\iTunes Music\Compilations\Slumdog Millionaire\04 Paper Planes.m4a

Correct? If so point FindTracks at C:\Users\Mark/Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\iTunes Music\iTunes Music\ and it should work. Turn off the Keep Organized preference before you start. We can talk tidying up once you're got the files connected.

tt2

Turning off keep organized is not essential, but may be a good idea when the structure of the folders is out of whack. I'm just working on a tweak for the purchased video files. Will post up a bit later when I've had a chance to test it and another mod I'm introducing for some else.

tt2

New build tested & uploaded.

When you've got the files reconnected you should make sure the media folder in Edit > Preferences > Advanced reads:

C:\Users\Mark\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\

Then you can enable the option to Keep iTunes Media folder organized again if you disabled it earlier. You should also visit File > Library > Organize Library... and tick Rearrange files in the folder iTunes Media if not already ticked. When it is done music files will be at:

C:\Users\Mark\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music\<Artist>\<Album>\## <Name>.<Ext>

which is the default layout.

tt2

You're welcome. 🙂

The new version should have fixed the "ExtFromKind" error, if not let me know and I will look at my tweak again.

Since "Rearrange..." is greyed out there is no need to change anything. It is the option that puts music files in <Media Folder>\Music\<Artist>\etc. as opposed to <Media Folder>\<Artist>\etc. which is how it was done prior to iTunes 9.

Most everything? Having fixed music you may need to go through Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts etc. and fix those in a similar fashion.

When everything is fixed you ought to backup your library. 😉

tt2

Hi tt2,

I am experiencing a similar problem with the "ExtFromKind" error except with me it fails on "MPEG-audiobestand" (i.e. Dutch for 'MPEG audio file', in this case MP3's). Have you got any solution / suggestion to solve this?

Thanks in advance.

Sander

Download and install Notepad++

Open the script in Notepad++

Locate the routine ExtFromKind, and within that the line that currently reads:

Case "MPEG audio file"

Edit it to read:

Case "MPEG audio file","MPEG-audiobestand"

Adjust the other case statements as necessary if/when the message pops up again.

tt2

Briljant! You just saved me from manually correcting 2000+ MP3's.

Thank you!

Sander

You're welcome. 🙂

tt2

turingtest2, been reading a number of your replies and they seem more lucid than many. Hoping you will read decription of my dilemma here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5884640

Hi Steve, you might want to handle this one offline.

Short story long: Back around 2006 I realised I could get all my hundreds of CDs onto an iPod, and manage them on a Mac. So I converted from Windows to Apple, and gave all my CDs to Oxfam.

Soon after Match was released I signed up. I had ~6600 tracks, many classical, which took a couple of weeks to upload. Soon after I found Match was replacing my Apple Lossless 256kbps tracks with 128kbps! I quickly stopped it, signed out of Match as best I could.

Next I found Match was still active, downloading stuff to my tiny 16GB iPhone 4s. I didn't want any music there, I need 128GB for the whole lot. I guess I found a Setting to stop that.

So in early Jan I started repairs. First thing was to delete the trivial stuff from (i?)Cloud whic Match had downloaded to the iPhone. Then I started to work between my old Mbook, newer mbPro.

Then I found 902 tracks had been deleted. Unbelievably it also seemed missing from Time Capsule. I sent a post to one of your fora but it was deleted inside an hour.

So more repair work, starting from iPad. This generated many many duplicates. Then I found stuff starting to vanish, eventually I saw it actually happening when I had several windows open.

Somewhere around this time I made a post, and en passent casually alluded to iTunes repair work. That post was deleted before the next morning.

So since then I've been trying to cleanup. Near the end of last week I'd got stuff copied to an external drive, so I removed ALL music from the mbp and over the last couple of days I began to rebuild a brand new iTunes on the mbp, en route painfully undoing all the "Part of a Compilation" checkmarks (took many hours). I started Time Machine and went to bed late last night. Today I finished the tedious NOT-compilation work, then added all the artists, in groups of up to about 8 at a time.

After I'd had a meal, I found the a Compilations folder had reappeared, with I don't know how many artists/albums in it. Then when I went to my external drive, I found every folder I'd created there was empty. With it went all the new/fixed-up stuff yet to be processd.

I realised months ago that Apple must reckon I'm a pirate, because of all the copying about that I was doing. But I assure you I am not, Steve. EVERY SINGLE ITEM in my library I'd bought and paid for. Mostly CDs, a lot of them from charity shops (I've stopped that now, I only find compilation CDs or too-popuar stuff nowadays), plus only a modest amount from the iTunes Store (and one from Amazon).

So please please help Steve:

1. Tell Apple and/or their systems I am NOT a Pirate, I'm just trying fix up my library.

2. Please tell me that all the stuff Apple has deleted is in the cloud? And there's a directory, like an iTunes Library.xml?

3. How should I go about recovery?

~David Whitford