I have some audio files (Mp3's) That I have on my hard Drive, I imported them to my itunes. That I did not burn from cd or buy from itunes. Files that I converted myself. All was well for a while. I have alot of them. But all of a sudden it's as if itunes forgot the route or path to find these certain tracks on my hard drive. So now when I click to play them it says " Original File Could Not Be Found Would You Like To Find It? " If I choose to find it I can find the songs individualy. Which would be ok if I hand maybe 20 songs or so....but I have thousands. I definately do not want to go through and locate each file seperately. Does any one know of short cut that I could remind my itunes the path?
I can't help you on your quest. I have owned a nano for over 4 years and have used media monkey for about 4. itunes is always screwing with something but the the basic user functions are about the same after 4 years of lots of changes. It makes me think what are they doing. I am sure your problem was due to an 'improvement'. There was a killer build last year that killed the connection to the computer. Without access to the computer the ipod can't be fixed or updated. Anyone that complained were told it was their fault and that they violated a security agreement. Probably most did but not all. Media Monkey has a function to find missing files. You use this if you moved the files. In 4 year and many many more files than you it has never lost one that I didn't move. Unlike itunes MM puts ratings and other valuable user added info to the audio files. itunes keeps your added info only in itunes. If you change computers, lose the HD or itunes gets screwed up you lose everything. itunes wants you as its slave. It is reverse for all other audio apps.
OK I had media monkey once but it seemed a pain but that was years ago. Maybe I should try it again, I agree itunes licks balls.
The try winamp. It is a great app. You you don't like the MM interface you may prefer winamp. It does better with apple formats but will not burn disks.
I believe it does. I do not use it that way. I use MM for that but I don't like how MM plays Apple formats. What I dislike the most about winamp is you do not have that complex cluttered menu so you can browse what it can do. I don't have the time to try to figure out how to use it for anything more than playing apple formatted music.
Did you try to redirect the path of your iTunes Music folder? In iTunes, go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced tab Make sure the iTunes Music folder location path is accurate otherwise change it. There's plenty of solutions to manage your iPod/iPhone without iTunes. Just google it.
Welcome Will! Hopefully you will be a regular contributer. I do suggest trying the top 2 rated apps (winamp&MM) first before you check out the also-rans. There are other apps that do many things better than those 2 but they have drawbacks. There are many reasons why the top 2 have gotten over 90% while the competition hasn't made it past 70% for years, most were rated under 50%.
Hey Will, that is what I am looking for. Do you know if you can put more than one location to draw your music from? What I do is I have made a folder from which I havee a bunch of FLAC files I have converted to mp3's then I imported the folder from itunes into playlists. ie on my itunes I go to file > import folder But the main music I have such as regular cd's I have imported just to the default folder ie I put a cd in and it asked if I want to import the songs to itunes and I click yes. So the thing is I have 2 seperate folders I have my music on, one is the default folder from cd's. The other is actually on a different harddrive. I just wonder if their is a way to have it pick up both. Thanks, joe
