Any help fixing the files that itunes screwed up?

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Any help fixing the files that itunes screwed up?

Just noticed. Back in 2018 Itunes rearranged and screwed up songs on my second hard drive. I long ago deleted itunes and all associated folders as did not like how itunes worked. See attached photo.

To illustrate. 01 Good Rockin' Tonight.mp3 is a short mixture of pieces of 4 different songs.

01 Good Rockin' Tonight.wma is the correct title and song. this is just 1 illustration.

it also put tons of my titles into folders that i did not.

It moved Paul Mccartney to under Allman Brothers and the song 01 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter is not that song. it is part of communication breakdown by led Zep and part Can't Get You Out of My Head by Kylie Minogue and the last 1/3rd is blank! i have 10-12,000 songs on that hard drive!!! Any help?

Windows, Windows 6

Posted on Jan 30, 2025 07:23 PM

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Answer 1

turingtest2

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Jan 31, 2025 04:00 AM in response to MichaelLeeTickal

Hi,

There is no obvious recovery from this unless you had a backup of everything from before it went wrong. You state that "01 Good Rockin' Tonight.mp3 is a short mixture of pieces of 4 different songs" which makes me wonder if this isn't some disk level corruption with cross linked files rather than simply a case of iTunes screwing things up.

I cannot see any other approach that would work short of cloning the data to a new error free drive and then manually sifting through each track to see if is a complete song, and has the correct metadata.

tt2

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Answer 2

Jan 31, 2025 06:59 AM in response to turingtest2

yeah, figured. just hoped. been manually doing that last night did a and b! sad losing all that music.

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Any help fixing the files that itunes screwed up?

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