ANOTHER i-tunes problem! - cds not transferring to library and so not to ipod.

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I reccently had to reload my tunes from my ipod to a different laptop. Which was fine.

'Cept some tracks didn't transfer. Soo..I put the original cds, bought and paid for, into the drive and all tracks get the tick. BUT...in library some tracks on some cds show a "!" beside them, and then those ones refuse to hop happily into the ipod, and appears on a "didn't transfer as the original file cannot be located". I am flummoxed. IT seems to be fairly random - some cds transfer, some tracks on some cds don't.

Any ideas at all?? Please?

I ahve tried to google this problem but there isn't an answer showing.

I have also tried reloading a couple of cds twice - same tracks fail to transfer to ipod, and show the dreaded "!"

Also..when I first loaded them 4-5 years ago, to same ipod, not a problem.

IIRC that means that iTunes can't find the track with the mark by it. So it's not so much transferring the track that's the problem, iTunes probably won't even play it.

Pick one CD that you have and delete all the tracks from iTunes. Then insert the CD and re-import it.

What happens then?

Am at work currently, BP, so will try that later.

Still confused as to why it 'imports' them, gives a green tick on the list of tracks as it imorts them. Then 'claims' it can't locate it.

Liar liar pants on fire. But that doesn't help.

thank you!

It "might" be because iTunes thinks that it already has the track so it's skipping it, or perhaps the presence of that non-track is confusing it somehow.

Come back on here with some news on how it goes.

Well, BP, my education on itunes has leapt fwd massively in the last 24 hrs.

I have been butchering the traffic between my My Music where the actual tracks are held ( didn't know this) and the site itself. The itunes library is just a 'shop front'. It actually holds zip/nada/nothing/zero/. I had actually binned some of the folders I had inported from my old library, and darling i-tunes were still looking for them. Me doing another cd effort wouldn't make any difference - I have to as you suggest, clear ALL reference to them on my laptop, and start again with them.
Lickily I have boiled this down to about 7 cds. Have just spent 1 hour deleting the duplicates I had carefully created! My pod was 3/4 full of this stuff!

Likily!! Luckily....

I'm guessing you're on a Windows PC?

iTunes can work in two ways. One is the "shop front" you describe where when you "add" a song into iTunes what it really does is just to leave the track in it's place on your disk and add a reference to it to iTunes.

If you then delete that original file you get the problems you describe.

This is, I think, the default way that the Windows version of iTunes operates.

The second mode, and the default on Macs, is that when you add a track to iTunes it actually copies it into an iTunes folder on your disk drive. Then whatever you do to that original copy iTunes isn't affected.

However if you have a lot of music already on your hard disk then you end up having it on their twice.

But managing your music is, I find, easier.

If you want to know how to flip modes then let me know. If you import tracks from a CD using iTunes then I "think" that they go into the iTunes library regardless so if you've started again this may not make a lot of difference.

That's exactly where I am. Windows xp. For a new cd it asks if you wish to import to library. Of course yes.

I followed your advice and deleted any ref. to 'Satie' piano music - both in the shop window AND in My Music. Then reloaded the original cd and it took it as if it had never heard of it. Which is what was wanted! It was the Satie one that was bugging me most. I adore Satie in a way so to have big gaps was a rreal nuisance.

I just have to do something similar with the other 'treasured' cds.....

a mac sounds nice and easy....but shouting "Liar!" to a laptop was the pits!!

About to do the next one - a 2 part cd - hope it works. I know it's late but I am on a roll...