Displaying a list of tracks that are missing from the iTunes library

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Displaying a list of tracks that are missing from the iTunes library

I keep all my music on an external NAS which is the library I pick when loading up iTunes.

But I've noticed of late that quite a few tracks seem to be missing from the library even though they are listed in the main body of each album under 'My Music'. I've found this out when trying to copy playlists to my phone or pad as it displays a report of items it couldn't copy because it couldn't find them.

When I double click the track to play it, it puts a question mark next to the track in the far left hand column of the music browser.

Does anybody know how to make iTunes display a complete list of all the tracks that are missing? I can only see that they are missing (with the exclamation mark) if I double click to try and play them.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers!

Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Jan 28, 2016 2:20 AM

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Answer 1

Cunnla

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Jan 28, 2016 2:44 AM in response to Julian Roche1

Hi,

You may be able to find some help here:

If your music is missing from iTunes - Apple Support

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Answer 2

Jan 28, 2016 7:48 AM in response to Julian Roche1

Go to the Dougscripts web site and look for a script called List MIA.

Realize iTunes and NAS do not work well. Your story is not unusual and is in fact relatively mild. Some have had links of all items get hopelessly muddled and had to rebuild from scratch.

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Answer 3

Jan 29, 2016 4:20 AM in response to Cunnla

Thanks for that. I knew how to find out where the track should be but what I was looking for was a way of scanning the entire library to find out what was missing. I think the reply below may have the solution to that.

Your help is very much appreciated

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Answer 4

Jan 29, 2016 4:30 AM in response to Limnos

Thanks for the script link.

Yes, I'm becoming painfully aware that iTunes and NAS don't work too well When iTunes had a major update last summer, my library was all over the place. Duplicated tracks, missing tracks, it took me a long time to sort it out. Then we had the issues last autumn with the lag and the download speeds (and I'm still having download speed problems, they're still much slower than they used to be) so I'm not a happy iTunes user at the moment.

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