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Itunes has mixed up all of my music. How can I fix this please?

For years now, Itunes has been dropping songs or albums here and there. It has been somewhat frustrating, but i soldiered on.This week, it has mixed up all of my music. I have over 18000 songs. With the exception of 8 or 9 tracks purchased from itunes, they were all ripped from CD in apple lossless. I had taken to using Itunes match, but this had caused my sync time with my phone to jump from a few minutes to hours. I read that Genius was the likely culprit so I turned off Apple Match and genius and resynced my phone. This step caused all of my tracks to be mixed up. Ripping so many albums in lossless would take me weeks to redo (in my spare time). I am desperate for a fix. Can anyone help? Please?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Aug 3, 2013 1:21 AM

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Michael Allbritton

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Posted on Aug 3, 2013 3:13 AM

Please define "mixed up."

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Sliedude Author

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Aug 4, 2013 1:44 AM in response to Michael Allbritton

I might be a dummy but I'm not understanding something. Even though I have deleted the Itunes.itl file, there is still all of my music in itunes Ie all the albums, artist tracks appear in the itunes windows. If i add back the music to ituens File addd to library and select /Music/iTunes/iTunes media/ folder, wouldn't I just be doubling up the tracks??

Aug 4, 2013 1:47 AM in response to Sliedude

Quit iTunes. Go to ~/Music/iTunes and move the following files to the Trash:

-- iTunes Library Extras.itdb

-- iTunes Library Genius.itdb

-- iTunes Library.itl

-- iTunes Library.xml

Launch iTunes and there ought to be nothing in the library. Now you can start adding the music back to the library.

Aug 31, 2013 9:06 AM in response to Sliedude

Ok, although I know this might not be as helpful, but this happened to me also e.g. when I played "Cold Wind Blows" by Eminem it played Linkin Park, atleast the case with my stock iPad music player. And this happened with all my songs. Irritated, all I did was go to Artists>Eminem and played "Cold Wind Blows". It worked fine. Then, I went to the Songs tab and tried playing the same song, and, like magic, it worked and everything fixed itself....

ChaiZ7

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Jan 12, 2014 9:27 AM in response to rohanfromind

Does it also fix the problem with song being added to the wrong album. Example, songs by Kirk Franklin are on my Kelly Clarkson album. It keeps the songs title, artist, but changes the artwork and album.

dpac90

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Mar 31, 2015 5:31 AM in response to Sliedude

I stumbled upon this thread looking for a solution to fix my music not sorting alphabetically in my iPhone. If you too are here for the same issue, here's the solution to fix it:

Right-click on the song and click 'Get Info'
Check the 'Sorting' tab
Remove all values under 'sort as' (or enter a value to sort as you want to)
Your song is now sorted correctly!

Itunes has mixed up all of my music. How can I fix this please?