Comments on: Remove Missing Tracks From iTunes

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:12:35 +0000

Your way works but mine is faster.

I simply delete my entire library and then re add my entire library folder.

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:38:39 +0000

Thank you so much for this ghetto-savvy way of doing it. Worked like a charm!

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:02:28 +0000

Super Remove Dead Tracks v2.1 was released in April 2008. It sure helped me out!

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=removedeadsuper

By: 10,000 Angry Vegans

10,000 Angry Vegans — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:10:25 +0000

Phew, thanks. This is seriously nasty but it does appear to work. Much like iTunes itself.

As a Windows user, I often wonder if I have the energy required to wriggle myself free of Vista and make a move (or, rather, a return -- I was a genuine devotee during the 80s and early 90s) to Macintosh, but there are so many occasions I find myself annoyed by missing and idiotic features on the iPhone, in Safari and particularly in iTunes, that I can't bring myself to do it.

Put simply, iTunes on Windows is awful -- slow, esoteric, unintuitive, resource hungry, and with a non-standard UI that is not just unfamiliar but also hangs at the slightest provocation -- and I'd wager it dissuades more people than it converts. It needs a ground up rewrite.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:12:34 +0000

@zweirad I’m glad this method worked for you. By keeping your iTunes library on an external drive you’ll save yourself a lot of annoyance. I hate having most of my disk space occupied by my library.

By: zweirad

zweirad — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:07:21 +0000

This worked for me. I moved my iTunes Library to an external drive and found that many of the tracks in the Library showed up as missing. By using your ghetto-fab method, I was able to see that 11,728 tracks out of 27,068 were missing! Yow! Now I’m reimporting the library. It’s a pain, but at least it works.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:46:20 +0000

Yeah, managing music inside iTunes is a pain sometimes. I complained to Dan last night that if iTunes Store didn't carry an album, you apparently can't download the album art from them. Stupid. Speaking of external drives, I keep meaning to get one of those Lacie drives.