Comments on: How To Remove Broken Songs From iTunes Library

By: NiC

NiC — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:07:34 +0000

Worked fine for me with Windows 7, 64 bit iTunes. Excellent. Thanks very much!

By: jrtv

jrtv — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:13:59 +0000

Did anyone figure out how to delete from the Missing Songs smart playlist?

By: Kelly Carlberg

Kelly Carlberg — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:01:33 +0000

i figured out what happened … when I copied from ALL Songs to ALL Live Songs, I right clisk and said copy to Play List …. this wont work. You must right click and COPY, then go to All Live Songs and right click and paste … worked like a champ

By: Kelly Carlberg

Kelly Carlberg — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:52:46 +0000

i am seeing the same issue …. nothing in Missing Songs … looks like the problem is when I copy from ALL Songs to All Live Songs, ALL THE SONGS are copied nit just the LIVE songs …. so Missing Songs sees no difference between the two lists …. in the All Live Songs playlist I see songs that have the ! and are missing, so something is not working on that copy to All Live Songs

By: kennedy83

kennedy83 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:57:16 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

By: Andi

Andi — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:59:34 +0000

Same here in V9 64 bit – nothing in missing songs. RATS!!! Anyone come up with a fix for the new situation?

By: Andi

Andi — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:59:34 +0000

Same here in V9 64 bit – nothing in missing songs. RATS!!! Anyone come up with a fix for the new situation?

By: Name

Name — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:29:22 +0000

THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY A LOT OF TIME! I am now jamming out to most hardcore music I have because I'm a good mood…..Thanks!!!!!

By: Tom Krotchko

Tom Krotchko — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:03:43 +0000

This simply does not work in my version of iTunes v9, 64 bit for PC.

I've defined all songs as a smart playlist and it indeed finds all the songs.
I've defined all live songs as a static playlist and it has all the songs

But missing songs is always empty.

By: Bodhi

Bodhi — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:32:17 +0000

I believe you corrected the wrong one (of the text and screenshot that did not match). The text version was correct (before you changed it). If you intend for the All Songs playlist to hold all the songs, then the artist name should NOT match the 123456789. This way, all the songs show up in the playlist.

You have:
"1. Create a New Smart playlist called ‘All Songs’: Create a rule like ‘Artist is ‘123456789‘ – whatever you choose make sure there is no artist with that name"
but it should be

"1. Create a New Smart playlist called ‘All Songs’: Create a rule like ‘Artist is NOT ‘123456789‘ – whatever you choose make sure there is no artist with that name"

Great tip, thanks!

By: paulsuk

paulsuk — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:36:27 +0000

Hold down Shift (or, on a Mac, Option) while deleting.
HTH

By: Everton

Everton — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:15:29 +0000

r u for real??!!! the point is you can use any string as long as it doesn't match any track!!

By: guest

guest — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:45:52 +0000

#1 – the screenshot doesn't match your text.
Text: Artist is not 123456789
Screenshot: Artist is 123456789

By: Ralph

Ralph — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:07:40 +0000

i have a german itunes so i am not sure how the english naming is but this worked for me since i did not use the “star rating” :
go to the missing files playlist and mark all songs with 5 stars. after that you can go back to “music”, show the star rating in a column, sort this colum. then you have all your missing “5 star” songs at the beginning and you can select them and delete them.

By: sds2

sds2 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:24:13 +0000

Thanks - works BUT how do you then remove the tracks from iTunes ?

Cannot remove from Smart Playslist so I created a new playlist called 'remove missing files' and dragged Smart Playlist 'Missing files' to new playlist.

But when I tried to delete all tracks from my new playlist 'remove missing files' they only deleted from my the playlist and original files stayed in iTunes ???

Thanks

By: thilak

thilak — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:56:17 +0000

Thanks for the linkback. Actual credits must definitely go to some user on Apple forum. Simply clever! I forgot where I read it though…