I've recently got a new Windows laptop and downloaded and installed the latest iTunes (11.0.2). All my music (over 5000 songs) went into iTunes fine, just as they were on my old laptop. However I have now noticed that when I download new music and add it to my iTunes it won't allow me to edit the songs through "Get Info" even though the songs I transferred from my old laptop can be edited perfectly fine. Can anyone help? Thank you.
- check if you have relocated songs.
- check if your files can be rewritten.
I use self-written python program to remove stale content.
import win32com.client
itunes= win32com.client.Dispatch("iTunes.Application")
ITTrackKindFile=1
mainLibrary = itunes.LibraryPlaylist
tracks = mainLibrary.Tracks
numTracks = tracks.Count
deletedTracks=0
batch_size = 90
deleted = []
while True:
while numTracks !=0:
currTrack=tracks.Item(numTracks)
if currTrack.Kind == ITTrackKindFile:
if currTrack.Location == "":
deleted.append(currTrack)
numTracks-=1
for track in deleted:
track.Delete()
deletedTracks+=1
del deleted[:] # free memory and close handles
if not numTracks:
break
if deletedTracks > 0:
if deletedTracks == 1:
print "Removed 1 dead track."
else:
print "Removed " + str(deletedTracks) + " dead tracks."
else:
print "No dead tracks were found."
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I've not relocated the songs because the songs play fine but I do use an external hard-drive so I don't know if that has anything to do with it? How do I check if files can be rewritten? Thanks for your help. – Jack Massey Mar 7 '13 at 11:16
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to check if files are relocated in any way, you should checkout info for path. To check existence you should type full path in Explorer's address field. – Eir Nym Mar 7 '13 at 12:36
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I guess that drive or path to your music folder has been changed since you moved to new laptop. – Eir Nym Mar 7 '13 at 12:37
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I've just added program which I use to remove stale tracks from library – Eir Nym Mar 7 '13 at 12:53
