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Hey, so my iTunes music folder is finally cleaned up, in that I've cleaned out a bunch of the duplicate files and whatnot. However my copy of iTunes has the little exclamation points against a bunch of the song names, since it can't find the now-deleted duplicate files.
How do I get iTunes to stop looking for those files, without going through and manually deleting each entry? Because that's a pain in the neck and hard on my hands.
The other option, I suppose, is "consolidating" my library but I'm worried about that because I don't like the way iTunes sorts things. It has a terrible time managing soundtracks and compilations, I've noticed.
Does anyone here know what the program or programs are that can allow you to play your records into the computer and transfer them into mpgs? And is there special hardware you need too?
You would need a wire to connect your record player line out socket(assuming it has one) to your PC line in, or microphone socket. Then you need to use a sound recorder program to record each song, and then save the file to a .mp3... It's possible, it depends what sockets are on the record player.
If you want a free two track editor that is pretty good check out Audacity. It's available for Mac, WinXP, and Linux.
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How do I get iTunes to stop looking for those files, without going through and manually deleting each entry? Because that's a pain in the neck and hard on my hands.
Are you running iTunes on a PC or Mac? If it's a Mac, you could download a script that would delete all these for you. This site [link] should have a script that does that.
eta: Ah, here it is: Super Remove Dead Tracks v1.5
Surveys iTunes for tracks that are no longer available on the local drive (as indicated by a "!" next to their names) and removes them. Any playlists that subsequently contain no tracks will then be deleted. Progress is displayed every 500 tracks. This is a more radical version of Remove Dead Tracks.
here's a pc version (english text is right above the comments)
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le nubian, thank you!
And yes, I have a PC. So I just unzip this file and run it while iTunes is running?
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