In File > Preferences > Advanced, you should allow iTunes to Keep iTunes Media folder organized and Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library. If you're unfamiliar with them, you probably should have them turned on, as they will help keep all of your music tidy going forward. Note that if you're on Windows and your iTunes isn't showing its menu (it doesn't by default), turn it on with Ctrl+B now.Īnother important note: There are a couple of features in iTunes that are on by default on Mac but are normally off on Windows. Below are a number of different suggestions, each with its own upsides and downsides. No matter how your library became a frustrating mess, there's almost always something you can do to get your library happy again.

ITunes works really hard to try and fix these problems, but if you're reading this it means that you're running into problems that iTunes couldn't automatically work out on its own. Maybe you moved your library from one hard disk to another, you had to get your library back from an old backup, or maybe your disk was failing and this is what you got after running recovery software. The dreaded exclamation points in your iTunes library! Edited metadata that doesn't show up outside of iTunes! Most of us have had at least some of these issues, and if you're unlucky most or all of your library can end up like this. Posted by Curtis How to fix a damaged iTunes library

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