How can I delete multiple missing Apple Music songs at once?

Moved everything to a new laptop and all my music has duplicates (1 being the file not found). Is there a way to mass delete all these songs at once instead of 1 at a time? I have roughly 40k songs and it’s taking forever

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Posted on Jan 30, 2025 12:17 AM

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turingtest2

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Jan 30, 2025 03:44 AM in response to LeggoMyEggroll

If you still have the previous computer you might revisit the way you transferred the library. Otherwise I suspect if you sort the Songs view by Date Added you will find that groups all of the tracks with broken links into one half of the list, with the working versions in the other half, added more recently. Select and remove the broken entries. Any regular playlists will be empty after doing this, since they will have been based on the older tracks.

tt2

Jan 30, 2025 09:28 PM in response to turingtest2

Thanks so much for the help. Somehow “dates added” worked and I was able to delete all the files not working. Now I’m trying to figure out how to get all my playlists to work because those songs were part of the “files not working” group

turingtest2

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Jan 31, 2025 03:18 AM in response to LeggoMyEggroll

I did say that it would empty the regular playlists. I have a script for deduping iTunes that preserves playlist membership but Apple Music doesn't provide a scripting interface. Do you have the previous computer still? Were you running iTunes or Apple Music on it? Did you copy over the old iTunes folder, and hence the iTunes Library.itl file, as part of your transfer efforts?

tt2

Jan 31, 2025 08:14 PM in response to turingtest2

Thanks so much for all the help. Got most of the music to transfer. Lost some in the process but it is what it is. Still got like 90%. Thanks again, really appreciate it

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How can I delete multiple missing Apple Music songs at once?