Comments on: How to Fix & Repair the Lost Link to The iTunes Music Library

By: Jimmy Havok

Jimmy Havok — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:48:17 +0000

It took unknown hours to finish the imports, and my iPod read the results of this as a new library…so now it’s going through an incredibly long sync operation. I hope the XTML rebuild works better, since I anticipate having to do this again.

By: Jimmy Havok

Jimmy Havok — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:18:05 +0000

I attempted to do a search-and-replace on the XML file, putting my preferred directory in the place of the bad one, then deleting the .itl file,and dumping the old libraries. No good, iTunes apparently took that as an empty library. I suppose I should have imported the corrected XML file into the old libraries directory instead.

Now I am seeing how importing the folder with all my music in it works…it looks good so far, but I suspect it’s going to take a good long while.

By: Jimmy Havok

Jimmy Havok — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:55:59 +0000

My worst gripe is iTunes insistence on reverting back to its preferred folder at any excuse. My music is on a network drive, and if there’s any glitch in communication at all, iTunes will jump back to its default directory and then start transferring files on its own, while losing all the links to the previous directory. All links then need to be laboriously restored by hand, until the next time the directory is reset.

I have no fix for this…although I am hoping I can set up a soft link from the iTunes preferred directory to the actual directory, so as to fool it into thinking that it is using its preferred directory.

By: Saikat

Saikat — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:30:29 +0000

Didn’t the solutions mentioned work out for you?

By: karen

karen — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:29:02 +0000

I am having the same issue!! I have to reload my music almost every time I rebook!

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By: Jordan T

Jordan T — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:45:12 +0000

Maybe this will work for me. I just bought a new laptop and installed itunes 64bit and every once in a while i will open itunes and nothing will be there. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and it still did it. I even tried the 32bit version and it still happened.

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By: Victor V.

Victor V. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:16:11 +0000

What kind of audiophile uses iTunes? I’d download b3tt’s xchange 2.0 foobar customization a thousand times before considering downloading iTunes.

But hey — each madman with its own madness.