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

GibsonSt19

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.

electron_3

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.

GibsonSt19

electron wrote:

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?

electron_3

GibsonSt19 wrote:

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. :rolleyes:

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.

Chippy_Minton

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 http://thousandrobots.com/blog/archives/2006/01/how_to_control_1.php

GibsonSt19

electron wrote:

Being someone who has a degree in computer technologies I would say. :rolleyes:

Well, my certificates all clearly state "Computer Science"

electron wrote:

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!

electron wrote:

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.

electron wrote:

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

electron_3

I think you may need some Divine Intervention of sorts


Or a box of pro-plus