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.

1. Run the program (look at your Start/Programs)
2. Locations – Click on the box and select where your iTunes library is stored (not necessary where your files are, just the iTunes .XML file)
3. Usually this is ?:\My Music\
4. Check – Search Subdirectories and Clean Orphaned files.
5. 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..

There are times when you copy more than a website URL, an email address, some search text, a quote… Then  jump between program windows, to realise you need to find that email address again…

Here comes a simple tool to allow you to remember up to a number of text - copies..

So all you have to do is to

1. [Ctrl] + [V], .. hmm,,,  not what you want?
2. Holding [Ctrl], tap [V] until you find what you want.

CopyPasteTool – copy and paste text software.

Easy, Simple… Windows only. And best of all.. It’s Free.