Comments on: Restoring a corrupt iTunes library

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:32:02 +0000

Why is my itunes music libary corrupted after updating my itunes. My music was on itunes, then after updating itunes they are gone off itunes. when I put them back in, and close down itunes, open it up again, they are gone again! What a rat race! Does anybody have any idea what to do?

By: ckuijjer

ckuijjer — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:13:03 +0000

You could try to remove all the id3 tags from the mp3 files (although it looks like you've already tried that). It seems that the mp3 files themselves really are broken. The method I described above only changes the iTunes library itself, not the mp3 files.

Good luck trying to replace the mp3 files

By: RTJ Wheatley

RTJ Wheatley — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:53 +0000

Thank you for reacting so quickly,

The mp3 files I still have on a different drive,but are not playing. Mediaplayer and Media Monkey are rejecting them as well,I tryed to repair the file headers but to no avail

By: ckuijjer

ckuijjer — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:56:31 +0000

You could try to look for the individual mp3 files. They are stored in ~/Music/iTunes on OS X and My Documents\My Music\iTunes Music\ in Windows. The iTunes library files only store some additional metadata such as how many times a track is played, most of the information such as the artist name is also sotred in the id3 tags of the mp3 files.

By: RTJ Wheatley

RTJ Wheatley — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:02:09 +0000

I have the same problem with iTunes,and lost over 13.000 files. I lost the XML file after my hard disk crashed beyond repair. Is there somebody who can help.