hi, Two things to mention here. First, the File tab is not an editable tab. That is, the File tab simply tells you the location of the file and some details regarding its file type for informational purposes. the Details tab is where tags can be modified. If you don't care to go through all 1100 songs individually, there is a method by which iTunes will attempt to find all the invalid location songs. To do so:
1. Open iTunes. 2. Press cmd-comma to open iTunes Press. 3. Interact with the Toolbar and select the Advanced tab. 4. Uncheck both "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes when importing". 5. Press OK and quit iTunes. 6. Re-open iTunes and locate one of your "invalid location" songs and try to play it. iTunes should ask if you want to try to find this song. Answer "yes" and locate it. Once you locate that one, iTunes should ask if you would like it to see if it can find any other invalid location songs for you. Let iTunes do this and it should do a reasonable job finding most of the songs that have an invalid location. If it doesn't find them all, quit iTunes and re-open it, and it will usually start the process again and find the remaining ones. At least it should drastically reduce the number of invalid location songs so you don't need to go through your entire iTunes Library. Once they've been located, go back into iTunes Prefs and re-check the boxes that you unchecked earlier. Note, it is important not to manually mess with the locations of iTunes media within the Finder. If you wish to have something in a different location, change it from within iTunes Prefs in the Details pane. FYI, iTunes uses the Artist, Album and Song title when organizing itself, so if you wish something to be relocated, then modify the information in those fields. Also, if the "Part of a Compilation" item is checked, things usually are placed in the Compilations folder then subsequently organized by Artist etc. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 29, 2017, at 13:13, Angus MacKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: John When I do a CMD I on a song in the Library list of songs, I get gthe artistt, album, song and a list of tabs. The Tabs are Details, Art work, Lyrics, soorting and File. File only allows me to read and not edit. Ihave started to go through the list one song at a time. And trying to play and then locate the song that is labeled ‘invalid location’. It will take me some time since I have over 1100 songs to go through. Angus MacKinnon -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
