I have songs that display the incorrect title in both iTunes on my computer and on my iPod. The songs were downloaded as purchases of albums from the iTunes store. How do I fix this?

I purchased seven albums by one artist from iTunes and downloaded them. After having them for several years, a number of the songs are mistitled and the albums either incomplete or have the wrong songs. I think all of the songs are on my computer, but the problem exists both on the computer and my iPod. As to what caused this, it may have been the use of third party software to transfer tracks from my iPod to my computer -- I wanted to move my iTunes library from one computer to a newer one, and the majority of my music was ripped from CDs. How do I fix the problem with the mismatched song titles and incomplete or incorrect albums?

Posted on Aug 16, 2013 4:32 PM

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Aug 26, 2013 4:14 PM in response to robcharlus

robcharlus wrote:

The old iTunes libraries do not restore any playlists or song counts.


They should you if you do the roll back properly... Opening files from the Previous iTunes Libraries folder in Windows Explorer simply opens the current library. If you don't see the .itl file extension then don't give your copied and renamed file the extention or iTunes will create an empty library rather than using the renamed file.


If you had a complete pre-problem backupof your library you could restore that. On the assumption that isn't possibleI have a script called ExportImport that could in principle be adjusted to save the relevant data from a backup of the library database and then reimport that data into the current library. See this thread for details.


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