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Y'know, the ones with exclamations next to them.
I don't want to have to scroll through all 11 thousand tracks though.
Cheers.
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Have a look at .
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Have a look at .
Hmm, thanks for this, but looking at it, it looks for orphan track references and deletes them. I don't want to do this though. I want to simply see which tracks are 'unavailable', so that I can direct iTunes to the correct track location.
Any other ideas though (the link you provided had been bookmarked for future reference).
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Ere can you not just select all tracks then remove them then reimport
a fres list into the itunes library and it will leave out any duff tracks.
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Hi, again, I don't want the duff tracks left out. I just want to give iTunes the chance to be re-directed to them.
I specifically want to know which individual files are missing, not go at it like a bull in the proverbial.
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Best of luck then as you will have to point the track at the file I think
you may have a boring job on your hands, just refreshing the lists should
do it but as you dont want to do that, stock up on coffee
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I don't mind spending time re-directing, I just want to see which tracks are no longer available.
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Also, my music isn't consolidated, so I have music stored in many folders across several drives.
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Well if you get rid of the library only and then refresh or point the library to
your folders and grab all of your tunes then only usable tracks will be imported
why do you want to see what tracks are missing that serves no purpose, surely !!
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Well if you get rid of the library only and then refresh or point the library to
your folders and grab all of your tunes then only usable tracks will be imported
why do you want to see what tracks are missing that serves no purpose, surely !!
Because I have the missing tracks somewhere, and just need to point them out to iTunes.
It takes a long time to re-import 11k tracks y'know!
There are only a few missing, and this is why I want the opportunity to identify them. I need to do this because I don't know why they're missing and want to troubleshoot this.
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Well why dont you just do a search for the track via an XP search
by using the track file name then see where its stored note the folder
then point itunes when you know where the track is.
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I think you're missunderstanding me.
I want iTunes, to list the tracks (with an exclamation mark) that have no physical file to back them up. That way, I can double-click each of them, and direct iTunes to the physical music file.
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I think your missing the point,
A track that is listed in itunes that is actually non playable has an exclamation mark
now if you do a search via XP for the track title you will then see where the file is
stored on your PC, now take note of which folder on what drive it is on.
Now go to itunes double click the track and when prompted go to where
it is stored this you will know as you would of made a note of where it is
because the XP search would of located it earlier on.
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I think your missing the point,
A track that is listed in itunes that is actually non playable has an exclamation mark
now if you do a search via XP for the track title you will then see where the file is
stored on your PC, now take note of which folder on what drive it is on.
Now go to itunes double click the track and when prompted go to where
it is stored this you will know as you would of made a note of where it is
because the XP search would of located it earlier on.
Your kind advice clearly shows that I'm missunderstood.
I know where all the physical music files are (.aac, .mp3 & .m4a) but I just want give iTunes the chance to list all of these tracks (with exclamation mark) in one place, instead of me having to scroll through 11 thousand tracks to spot the exclamations myself.
Some tracks that iTunes is reporting as missing, I can't actually locate (and are not on any of my drives (local or remote; therefore I think some form of corruption has occurred) and need to reimport the individual tracks from CD/download (as I own them all legally).
Being qualified in Computer Science, I understand the features offered to me by the Windows Search function (or any other indexing service you care to mention), but my issue is that I can't seem to get iTunes to show me (in one place) which tracks are without their vital physical files.
iTunes allows me to see a list of track duplicates, and simply wanted to know whether it could let me see a list of orphaned track entries.
Am I making sense?
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Your kind advice clearly shows that I'm missunderstood.
I know where all the physical music files are (.aac, .mp3 & .m4a) but I just want give iTunes the chance to list all of these tracks (with exclamation mark) in one place, instead of me having to scroll through 11 thousand tracks to spot the exclamations myself.
Some tracks that iTunes is reporting as missing, I can't actually locate and need to reimport the individual tracks from CD/download (as I own them all legally).
Being qualified in Computer Science, I understand the features offered to me by the Windows Search function (or any other indexing service you care to mention), but my issue is that I can't seem to get iTunes to show me (in one place) which tracks are without their vital physical files.
iTunes allows me to see a list of track duplicates, and simply wanted to know whether it could let me see a list of orphaned track entries.
Am I making sense?
Being someone who has a degree in computer technologies I would say.
Buy a CD player and have be done with
So you just want all missing or non-linkable tracks to be at the top of your play list so you can see them all one after another, if so hasnt itunes got a function to list all non functioning tracks in a list just like view by Artist, Bitrate blah blah blah.
Either that or get a proper player like DBpoweramp as itunes is pretty naff.
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In the thread link that I posted there's some VBScript showing a simple use of the iTunes application object. So you could play around with it and see if a VBScript or VBA program can do what you want. E.g. see
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Being someone who has a degree in computer technologies I would say.
Well, my certificates all clearly state "Computer Science"
Buy a CD player and have be done with
I don't like carting 100+ CD's around with me, they start to take their toll on my back!
So you just want all missing or non-linkable tracks to be at the top of your play list so you can see them all one after another, if so hasnt itunes got a function to list all non functioning tracks in a list just like view by Artist, Bitrate blah blah blah.
Yes, something like that. I thought someone may know of a plugin or something similar out there that would do this job.
Either that or get a proper player like DBpoweramp as itunes is pretty naff.
I've tried and dislike DPPowerAmp, but love iTunes (other than this little issue). I'm also giving MediaMonkey a trial at the moment, but I'm not exactly thrilled with that either.
OK my friend, thanks for the thought and input, I guess I'll just have to do it the tedious way!
Cheers
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I think you may need some Divine Intervention of sorts
Or a box of pro-plus