Wait - What's Wrong with My Playlists (New User Question 4/3)

[Alonzo Mosley]

OK, this really is a problem...

Bonus Question! I just imported my library from iTunes. The first few playlists I spot-checked were 100 percent groovy.

Then I found a whole bunch that are just "exclamation points". Some of good playlists and bad playlists even point to the same songs!

I can't spot any particular distinction between the good and the bad... (i.e., even two playlists in the same iTunes subfolder, one's good, one's not).

Thoughts?

Thanks! (Screenshot attached

[phred]

Have you hovered over an exclamation mark? What does it say?

[Alonzo Mosley]

Interesting! It says the file is missing, but the file path does NOT match where I imported my library from. My import path was:
c:\iTunes\iTunes Media\[Artist]\[Album]\[Title]
and the "bad" files - at least the random sampling I took, the path shows as:
c:\My Initials\iTunes\iTunes Music\[Artist]\[Album]\[Title]

I don't know when that might have ever been the path - I can't say for sure it wasn't, but it's at least six laptops ago!

AND... There are songs on "good" playlists (showing the correct filepath in the "Edit" window) that are also on "bad" playlists (showing the incorrect filepath on hover)...

[The Incredible Boom Boom]

Interesting! It says the file is missing, but the file path does NOT match where I imported my library from. My import path was:
c:\iTunes\iTunes Media\[Artist]\[Album]\[Title]
and the "bad" files - at least the random sampling I took, the path shows as:
c:\My Initials\iTunes\iTunes Music\[Artist]\[Album]\[Title]

If you haven't already resolved this, you can edit the playlist files (if they're m3u) as they're simply text files.

[Alonzo Mosley]

That's editing each line of 100+ files...?

[Zak]

It's a Search and Replace command for each old path to replace it with the new path.
And there are plenty of text editors that will do an entire folder at a time.
I believe Notepad++ would do this.

[Alonzo Mosley]

Hmmmm. Did not know that.