Song titles turned into numbers

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At the top of my iTunes Library are songs listed as they should be. At the bottom of my iTunes Library, however, are a large number of song titles that have been changed to very long numbers. Some of the numbers are negative numbers. The duration of the song is displayed, but no other information shows. I can play the songs by clicking on them. The Get Info option displays no information other than the long number. Can anyone tell me how to correct this situation?

I'm using MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite.

Thanks

MacBook Pro

Posted on Feb 18, 2015 3:21 PM

21 replies

Flaps23

Level 1

4 points

Apr 17, 2017 10:17 AM in response to mbeck1

I had the same issue with all my songs turning into numbers. I thought I would delete the albums most affected, and then redownload.

Well now the albums are lost. I go into iTunes, and it displays the album in the store as "Purchased" but no "Cloud download" icon to redownload it.

I went to an Apple store and the technician blew it off as "not ever having seen that before". She said to reconnect to my computer with iTunes on it.

I connected to iTunes last night and it will display the album, but will not play it on the computer. It will not allow me to drag it to my "iPhone" to redownload it to my phone.

Solutions?

Limnos

Level 10

428,183 points

Jan 31, 2017 9:53 AM in response to brian_from_roodepoort

Well, you can try this which won't involve deleting anything but won't do anything about any corrupt files on your computer now.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Limnos

Level 10

428,183 points

Feb 18, 2015 7:56 PM in response to mbeck1

Does the Get Info > Summary show a file name?

Are you missing tracks?

mbeck1 Author

Level 1

25 points

Feb 21, 2015 10:42 AM in response to mbeck1

Should I just type over the number "names" with the real track name?

Jan 31, 2017 6:40 AM in response to mbeck1

Has a solution been found for this. I have similar problem. This applies to about 22 tracks which are also available on my iCloud. Is there a solution that does not involve deleting anything?

Tooly01

Level 1

4 points

Feb 5, 2017 3:27 AM in response to Limnos

Hi thats just the feedback form, did you have a fix you were going to share?

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Song titles turned into numbers