How To Remove Broken Songs From iTunes Library

by aldous Tue, September 22 2009 05:18

Sometimes when you move songs from one folder to another on your laptop you ended of getting a lot of broken songs in your iTunes library which is a pain finding all broken songs especially if you have a lot of them. After Goooogling around for a way to remove broken songs from iTunes I found an easy way (well not that easy for some people) to remove these broken songs by just creating playlist showing all the broken links.

So here's the solution:
   1. Create a New Smart playlist called ‘All Songs’: Create a rule like ‘Artist is NOT ‘123456789‘ – whatever you choose make sure there is no artist with that namesmart playlist 1 thumb How To Remove Broken Songs From iTunes Library
   2. Now make a regular playlist called (create playlist shortcut: CTRL+N) ‘All Live Songs’
   3. Now create a second smart playlist called ‘Missing Songs‘ with the following rules: ‘Playlist is All Songs’ and ‘Playlist is not All Live Songs’smart playlist 2 thumb How To Remove Broken Songs From iTunes Library
   4. Then select all your tracks in the All Songs playlist and drag them to the empty ‘All Live Songs’ playlist.
   5. When you copied all the songs to the empty All Live Songs playlist, only the live songs were copied.


Thats it! Now, if you go back to the Missing Songs playlist you will now see all those songs that are broken which is included in the All Songs playlist but are not in the All Live Songs playlist which doesn't include the broken/missing songs. You can now delete the broken songs in the Missing Songs playlist by selecting all the songs then press Shift key then delete.

 

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