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Quickly check for corrupt songs
Authored by: TiVoFan on Jul 26, '06 11:51:25AM
There is a simpler way to do this that doesn't put any of your metadata at risk: an AppleScript called Super Remove Dead Tracks from www.dougscripts.com.

That's a great site to find all kinds of iTunes-enhancing AppleScripts. I couldn't live without about 20 of them.

-T

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Quickly check for corrupt songs
Authored by: dan55304 on Jul 27, '06 07:32:27AM

This script will not do what the tip author suggested. This AppleScript will just delete tracks that have no file location indicator. So, it assumes iTunes is already aware that there is a problem.

The process documented in this tip will attempt to modify the tune. It will be unable to change a file it can't find. Sorting by the modified field identifies tracks that have some kind of problem because iTunes was not able to modify the meta data. In other words, this tip does not assume iTunes already knows about the missing/damaged track and forces iTunes to "look" at the actual file.

I have personally had this happen where iTunes doesn't know a track is missing or erroneously reports a track as missing.



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