If you used iTunes long enough, (its still one of the best music organisers/players, especially if you have one of those obscure things called an iPod), you will most likely have music tracks missing after you try to organise your library a little.
iTunes, would prompt you and indicate an exclamation mark next to the missing song, and ask if you would like to try to locate the file.
If this is just 1 or 2 songs, it’s fine.. but for an entire album?? or more? It’s a real pain very quickly.. Isn’t technology supposed to be easy??
I had recently moved all my music from different computers into my Synology 209+ NAS and added them to my iTunes in a hurry.. not realising I haven’t ‘cleaned’ up the songs yet.. duplicates especially.
So here’s a free program for Windows, I used to help clear the missing tracks.
It’s iTunes Library Updater.
Download it from here.
After you installed the program, here’s what to do.
- Run the program (look at your Start/Programs)
- Locations – Click on the box and select where your iTunes library is stored (not necessary where your files are, just the iTunes .XML file)
- Usually this is ?:\My Music\
- Check – Search Subdirectories and Clean Orphaned files.
- Click on the ‘Start’ button on the bottom right corner.
The program will read the files and remove the entries.. it will also display what entries are removed.
When its done, welcome to your cleaned iTunes..
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