David Illig
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Q: iTunes 12.2 Changes Track Names, Ruins my Library

Right before my eyes. Here is a description of the first of many instances: on one of my Macs I have a playlist that includes "Both Sides Now" by

Joni Mitchell (may she fully recovery from her illness). I double clicked to play the song and before my eyes its name in the playlist changed to "Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 5, No. 9: II. Giga - Allegro," by Arcangelo Corelli, a piece of music that I have in another playlist. But the song that played was the right one. "Get info" shows info for the Corelli work, but with the Joni Mitchell album art.


I am also finding songs in playlists that I didn't put there--not intentionally, not by accident. Patsy Cline in a classical trumpet playlist, e.g. I double-clicked it and its name changed to a trumpet work by Purcell, but the song that played was by Patsy Cline. A cello concerto appears in my trumpet playlist, but a trumpet work plays when I double-click.


In all instances, "Show in Finder" reveals the music as a duplicate in the same folder as the real version of the song.

 

This has happened over and over again since I downloaded iTunes 12.2: My iTunes library -- 10,000 songs -- is in ruins.

 

Unfortunately, I did not turn of my SuperDuper backups when I first discovered the error and began investigating. Thus, my backup copies of iTunes Library.itl are corrupt, as well.

 

Ideas!? Thanks!

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Yosemite (10.10), Seven Macs (five modern).

Posted on Jul 5, 2015 2:24 PM

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  • by David Illig,

    David Illig David Illig Jul 6, 2015 3:10 PM in response to Louie21
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    Jul 6, 2015 3:10 PM in response to Louie21

    Thanks. I found it via turingtest2's link. Linc Davis's post was a very round-a-bout way of saying "remove the iTunes plug-ins," but it may have helped;

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    David Illig David Illig Jul 6, 2015 3:24 PM in response to Louie21
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    Jul 6, 2015 3:24 PM in response to Louie21

    @Louie21: Thanks. The link provided by turingtest2 was useful. In that thread, Linc Davis employed a very round-a-bout way of saying "remove your iTunes plug-ins." I'm not certain because I've been busy with other things and have not done an exhaustive test, but that may have helped. I'll report back in a day or so.

     

    I appreciate your time and that of every person who has replied in this thread.

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    GPaas GPaas Jul 6, 2015 3:42 PM in response to DMBmelch
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    Jul 6, 2015 3:42 PM in response to DMBmelch

    I've had a bit of better luck with my own tinkering and Apple Support (level 2).

     

    First, these are the problems I had/have:

     

    1) Like many others, iTunes 12.2.0.145 corrupted my music files. My "Abbey Road" disappeared and was replaced by several other songs, etc. This has happened with about 2,000 or so other songs.

     

    2) My shared library icons have disappeared from my desktop and laptop. Still working on this one.

     

    3) On my laptop, about 15,000 songs just disappeared, and the rest had the cloud icon next to them, as if I had to download them all.  Most of the music in my library is ripped from my own CDs, very little downloaded.

     

    So, I called, and got through to tech support (level 1) who could only direct me to find where the library was located and to re-locate it via iTunes preferences. This wasn't even close to the problem. Level 2 had a few more ideas, some of which worked. I got rid of current iTunes.itl and iTunes.xml files and re-loaded older ones. Then I pulled from back up my entire library.  This took about 8 hours, but all the files were restored in tact (I think; I actually don't know, but I haven't found any with failed meta-data yet).

     

    iTunes recreated current itl and xml files, but I still can't compare libraries between my desktop and laptop, which was an ongoing way to keep tabs on what was going on with each.

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