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I was messing about with iTunes preferences the weekend and although the songs still exist within the iTunes application the folders containg the original MP3 files are empty, all that remains is the album artwork in some of them.
Its iTunes V9 on Windows Vista. I have Googled for the answer without any success. I cant restore from the iPod as its only a 4GB Nano. What the heck have I done????
Use your back-up mate. Should be simple as.
Did you tick the 'Have iTunes organize your music' option? (Can't remember the exact setting but something along those lines...)
If you did, iTunes shuffles all the files into folders named after the artist, then the album.
My directory structure is like this:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music and then a separate sub-folder for each artist and another sub-folder for each artists album.
Check there...hopefully your mp3s haven't been deleted!!!
Sounds a bit of a weird one... if you removed all your original mp3 files off your pc the tunes in your itunes wouldn't play? so they must be somewhere else on your system? unless there now not playing?
Just search the c drive for music files. Ctrl E from windows explorer
in Itunes Right click one of the files then go to Show In Explorer, see where they are now
On a recent upgrade itunes seems to have created a new subfolder called itunes media and moved the music to there.
Check if this exists and in your advanced preferences what folder itunes is looking at for your music files.
Consolidate the library back into the correct place - if you delete the empty folder this will also clear all of the shite that accumulates