Since the last upgrade my library was really messed up. Missing songs, playlists, etc. Since I have all my music files on an external drive, I want to import a playlist from the external drive. Is this possible and how?
Toshiba laptop, Windows XP
File > Library > Import Playlist will do it, assuming the tracks that the playlist references are all in their correct locations, though it may still depend on what created the playlist. iTunes generates fully qualified paths to each track of a playlist while other software may use relative links that iTunes can't interpret.
Every significant update to iTunes results in the database being updated with the old one archived in the Previous iTunes Libraries folder. Perhaps you would be better off attempting to roll back to your pre-upgrade library to force the upgrade to be reevaluated. See Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash.
See also make a split library portable and this backup tip. Ideally you would have your entire library organized on the external drive, backed up to another for security.
tt2
File > Library > Import Playlist will do it, assuming the tracks that the playlist references are all in their correct locations, though it may still depend on what created the playlist. iTunes generates fully qualified paths to each track of a playlist while other software may use relative links that iTunes can't interpret.
Every significant update to iTunes results in the database being updated with the old one archived in the Previous iTunes Libraries folder. Perhaps you would be better off attempting to roll back to your pre-upgrade library to force the upgrade to be reevaluated. See Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash.
See also make a split library portable and this backup tip. Ideally you would have your entire library organized on the external drive, backed up to another for security.
tt2
Thanks for this info. I do have 2 external drives and I'm now using SyncToy from Microsoft to sync both external drives so I will have 2 full copies. Also, I didn't realize that with every upgrade itunes archives the library. This was very helpful for sure! Thanks again for this information. 🙂
You're welcome. 🙂
tt2
How do I import a playlist from an external hard drive?
