Once you say yes, you’re given a “Browse For File” dialog box. You have to find the file on your hard drive using the buttons in this dialog, and then click the Open button in order for the iTunes library link to be updated. If you do this correctly, the song begins playing after you press the Open button and from then on, the song should play correctly when you select it in your library.
Tom Hesley
Also, if you rename a music file in Windows Explorer but do not update this in iTunes, you’ll get this error the next time you attempt to play the song with iTunes. This is akin to moving the file.
Tom Hesley
There is also the possibility that if you have your iTunes library stored on an external drive, and then you plug another removable drive into your computer, such as a Victor Reader Stream for example, the drive letter to your music may change without you realizing it.
Try verifying that the drive letter has not changed since you imported your music.
Tom Hesley
Did you actually resolve this problem? If so, how? If not by finding the file on your hard drive, and then updating the link in the iTunes library to it, in what way did you stop this error?
I’ve see this error many times myself, and in every case it was due to the music file being moved or deleted. I’ve fixed this by answering yes when iTunes asks me if I want to locate the file. When I did, the error disappeared.
Tom Hesley
If you moved or deleted the files for the songs in your iTunes library, you’ll get this message. You’ll also get it if you changed the drive letter of the hard drive where your music is located.
Tom Hesley
Mp4 is a container file type and is used in QuickTime and other apps for storing and playing multi-media data. For more information on MP4 files, see the following URL:
http://www.coolutils.com/Formats/MP4
As I indicated in a previous post, MP4 files that hold audio are identical in every way to M4A files, except for the file extension.
Apple’s documentation suggests that the settings on the Import Settings dialog box are for when you import CDs. They have no effect on files that you buy from the iTunes store. But as I’ll mention further below, these settings do affect the available conversion formats on the context menu for each song in the library.
But these settings do not seem to affect the format of songs that you import into the iTunes library from elsewhere on your hard drive. I just set my import settings to the MP3 encoder, then imported a WAV file. After the import, the WAV file appeared in my iTunes library, still, as a WAV file.
However, when I set my import encoder to MP3, and then examined the context menu for one of my music files, yes indeed, the “Create MP3 version” menu item appeared. So apparently, you have to be configured to import as MP3 in order to see this conversion option on the context menu. This is strange, because in the Preferences dialog box, the Import Settings button is grouped with other options that are specifically importing CDs, including the “When you insert a CD” edit box and the “Automatically retrieve CD track names from the Internet” check box. Further, when you pull up the Import Settings dialog box, it does say that these settings do not apply to selections purchased from the iTuens store. However, it seems to affect the available formats for conversion in the song’s context menu.
It seems counter-intuitive that Import Settings would change the context menu for creating a copy of the song in a different format. After all, the song you’re converting has already been imported into the library; so you’re not really performing an import when you make a differently-formatted version of it.
The layout of the Edit–>Preferences dialog box could be improved by moving the Import Settings button away from the other CD settings, to avoid the misunderstanding that these settings apply to only imports from CDs. Also, it seems that calling these settings “Import Settings” does not totally describe what these settings affect. Instead they might call the button “Import and File Conversion Settings”, or provide two buttons; one called “Import Settings” and the other called “File Conversion Settings”. But software, as well as its accompanying documentation is always imperfect.
Tom Hesley
Yes, you can copy YOUR library [from one computer to another]. The key phrase there is “your library.” In your original note, you said that you wanted to copy a library from your friend’s computer to yours. You didn’t mention however that the music on your friend’s computer was in fact, your music. In fact, it seemed that your friend was the owner of the music because you said, “A friend of mine has a small library of songs that she said I could use until I build up my own library.” But if you own the music, sure, the copy is legal.
Tom Hesley
Question: Can I sync two iPods from the same iTunes library?
Yep, it is. Both iPods can be synced from the same library. You can either put the same content on both, or tailor the content for each iPod creating one or more playlists for each one. Then, for each iPod, choosing which of those playlists gets synced to it. You could create a playlist called iPod1 and one called iPod2. Then, when you plug in iPod1, configure it to sync only the iPod1 playlist. Do the same with iPod2.
Or, if you wanted the same content on both iPods, you could either sync them both to your entire library (without configuring specific playlists to sync), or you could set them both to sync to the same playlist.
HTH,
Tom Hesley
When you plug your iPod into your computer and its name appears in the iTunes sources tree view, you focus on that name. Then you can tab to get to the portion of the screen that shows the various tabs for configuring the iPod. However, I’ll have to defer to someone else to tell you how to move among the various tabs with JAWS. I just use my mouse. So you probably could use the JAWS cursor. But there’s probably an easier way, especially if you’re running J-Tunes.
Tom Hesley
Hey [Emmy],
You can check if the iPod is done syncing by trying to eject it. If it’s not done, you’ll get a dialog box, telling you that it’s in the middle of a sync, and asking if you if you’re sure you want to eject it anyway. Hit the cancel button here. Do not eject while syncs are going on.
You can also use the JAWS cursor to watch the iTunes status area at the top of the iTunes main window. You’ll have to play with this a bit to get familiar with the messages in this window.
M