[iTunes] Finding "Lost" Music

[Scott Replogle]

I haven't been keeping up so maybe this has been discussed but I have 
had the same problem and it seems to be the recent albums/CD's that 
have been encoded in AAC (the older ones were in MP3). If I look at the 
external disk that contains them, the ones that are in the iTunes 
library will be shown as "today" for the date modified and those that 
don't show up in the iTunes library even though they were ripped into 
it are in AAC format. They will be listed as last modified on the date 
they were ripped. I solve this by dragging the folder containing the 
album or artist back into iTunes and they then appear normally -- until 
sometime later when iTunes is restarted. Then they disappear again. 
Dragging the entire folder from wherever it's stored back to iTunes 
should solve Jim Wickman's problem though.

Dr. Reptile
Boulder, CO

On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 10:50 AM, Jim Wickman wrote:

> I discovered this morning that two albums which are in my iTunes Music 
> folder are declared to be missing by iTunes -- the dreaded exclamation 
> point  ( ! ). So I went through the routine of Cmd-I, search, click, 
> click on info window, go on to next . . . Tedious
>
> That set me to wondering if there's some way to get iTunes to 
> re-recognize albums instead of having to go tune-by-tune.
>
> Suggestions?
> -- 
> Jim Wickman   - - -   Pasco, WA
>
> Men are from earth.
> Women are from earth.
> Deal with it.
>