iTunes Again! - How do I find all missing tracks?

GibsonSt19

Y'know, the ones with exclamations next to them.

I don't want to have to scroll through all 11 thousand tracks though.

Cheers.

Chippy_Minton

Have a look at Make iTunes rescan folders and remove missing files.

GibsonSt19

Chippy_Minton wrote:

Have a look at Make iTunes rescan folders and remove missing files.

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).

electron_3

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.

GibsonSt19

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.

electron_3

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

GibsonSt19

I don't mind spending time re-directing, I just want to see which tracks are no longer available.

GibsonSt19

Also, my music isn't consolidated, so I have music stored in many folders across several drives.

electron_3

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 !!

GibsonSt19

electron wrote:

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.

electron_3

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.