I have all my music on a network drive on a Linux server and it's mirrored to a local drive. I mapped the server music directory to my Windows XP Pro SP2 PC as I:/ and it worked very well. Podcasts download to my server and are picked up on my wireless network music player (Squeezebox 3).
I recently updated iTunes to 6.0.5 and ended up with lots of grey exclamation marks next to my music in iTunes. So, I changed the location to the local Windows drive (E:/My Docs/My Music), it ran the updater (Updating iTunes Library) and still had the grey exclamation marks. So I changed it back to I:/ and the updater ran again, but still exclamation marks. I can click an exclamation-marked tune and say Yes to browse to where the tune is located on I:/ and then it plays and the exclamation mark disappears so I know it's not an access problem.
Previously I could switch between E:/My Docs/My Music and I:/ quite happily and the updater always worked.
I figured that perhaps it was a problem with iTunes 6.0.5 so I reverted back to 6.0.4 and the problem persists.
I presumed that the updater overwrites the file location in the iTunes Music Library.xml file, so I had a look at that and it had my music folder listed as being at <key>Music Folder</key><string>file://localhost/I:/</string>, so that's okay. But most of the tunes are listed as being at the OLD location, which is file://localhost//Clarkconnect/shared/iTunes/
I went into iTunes, double clicked an exlamation-marked song, browsed to its location and then closed iTunes again. Then I went into the xml file to see what had changed - as expected, the file location had changed from the old to the new and all was well.
So, I thought it would simply be a case of using Find Replace to change the old location to the new. So I did that, opened iTunes, and, to my dismay, still exclamation marks. So I closed iTunes, opened the xml file and found that the old locations were all back again! AAARGH.
Is it something to do with the iTunes Library.itl file? I moved that to see what would happen, opened iTunes and was greeted to an empty iTunes interface. Closing it down created a new iTunes Library.itl file. So I quickly put the old one back, but I don't know how to read that file (Wordpad, etc. show gobbledygook).
So, once again, much time has been spent trying to fix a problem that wasn't there yesterday. Can anyone please help? I know this is a bit long-winded but I tried to explain my steps as best I could. Thanks for reading through my post!
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I recently updated iTunes to 6.0.5 and ended up with lots of grey exclamation marks next to my music in iTunes. So, I changed the location to the local Windows drive (E:/My Docs/My Music), it ran the updater (Updating iTunes Library) and still had the grey exclamation marks. So I changed it back to I:/ and the updater ran again, but still exclamation marks. I can click an exclamation-marked tune and say Yes to browse to where the tune is located on I:/ and then it plays and the exclamation mark disappears so I know it's not an access problem.
Previously I could switch between E:/My Docs/My Music and I:/ quite happily and the updater always worked.
I figured that perhaps it was a problem with iTunes 6.0.5 so I reverted back to 6.0.4 and the problem persists.
I presumed that the updater overwrites the file location in the iTunes Music Library.xml file, so I had a look at that and it had my music folder listed as being at <key>Music Folder</key><string>file://localhost/I:/</string>, so that's okay. But most of the tunes are listed as being at the OLD location, which is file://localhost//Clarkconnect/shared/iTunes/
I went into iTunes, double clicked an exlamation-marked song, browsed to its location and then closed iTunes again. Then I went into the xml file to see what had changed - as expected, the file location had changed from the old to the new and all was well.
So, I thought it would simply be a case of using Find Replace to change the old location to the new. So I did that, opened iTunes, and, to my dismay, still exclamation marks. So I closed iTunes, opened the xml file and found that the old locations were all back again! AAARGH.
Is it something to do with the iTunes Library.itl file? I moved that to see what would happen, opened iTunes and was greeted to an empty iTunes interface. Closing it down created a new iTunes Library.itl file. So I quickly put the old one back, but I don't know how to read that file (Wordpad, etc. show gobbledygook).
So, once again, much time has been spent trying to fix a problem that wasn't there yesterday. Can anyone please help? I know this is a bit long-winded but I tried to explain my steps as best I could. Thanks for reading through my post!
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