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iTunes help?
Jun. 21st, 2010 02:56 pmI currently use iTunes to manage my music and podcasts, because it's handy for syncing with my iPhone and iPod.*
One of the things that iTunes does, apparently in an attempt to help, is to mark songs that aren't actually play-able and autoskip them in the future. Unfortunately, if a song exists on the network but I open iTunes when the network is temporarily unavailable (say, I'm away from home at a coffee shop, or the wireless router is being bad), it flags all the songs on my network storage device as 'unavailable' and autoskips them in the future.
This is, then, inconvenient when I return to my network and want to play them, and my playlists autoskip all my songs. I can force it to relocate the songs by manually selecting them to play, but manually playing all 900+ songs that it has helpfully flagged as unavailable is, uh, also inconvenient.
If I remove all the songs from my iTunes media library and then re-add them, it forgets the 'this song doesn't exist' flag and plays them correctly, but that's both time-consuming and annoying.
Is there any way to tell iTunes to forget all its 'this song doesn't exist!' flags? Or else to force a refresh of the iTunes media library without removing and re-adding all my files? Does anyone know?
* - That means that if your advice is the oh-so-clever 'don't use iTunes,' you are advised to keep it to yourself. With the exception of this one irritant, I'm pretty happy with it.
One of the things that iTunes does, apparently in an attempt to help, is to mark songs that aren't actually play-able and autoskip them in the future. Unfortunately, if a song exists on the network but I open iTunes when the network is temporarily unavailable (say, I'm away from home at a coffee shop, or the wireless router is being bad), it flags all the songs on my network storage device as 'unavailable' and autoskips them in the future.
This is, then, inconvenient when I return to my network and want to play them, and my playlists autoskip all my songs. I can force it to relocate the songs by manually selecting them to play, but manually playing all 900+ songs that it has helpfully flagged as unavailable is, uh, also inconvenient.
If I remove all the songs from my iTunes media library and then re-add them, it forgets the 'this song doesn't exist' flag and plays them correctly, but that's both time-consuming and annoying.
Is there any way to tell iTunes to forget all its 'this song doesn't exist!' flags? Or else to force a refresh of the iTunes media library without removing and re-adding all my files? Does anyone know?
* - That means that if your advice is the oh-so-clever 'don't use iTunes,' you are advised to keep it to yourself. With the exception of this one irritant, I'm pretty happy with it.
