Hi everyone. I recently formatted my MacBook Pro and installed a fresh copy of Mavericks (10.9.5) and iTunes (11.4). I had backed up my iTunes folder onto an external hard drive before formatting and after re-installing I moved the iTunes folder from the external HDD onto my desktop. Instead of having iTunes look for that folder I decided to "re-create" a new iTunes library. I had Finder search for my MP3s in that iTunes folder (the one on my Desktop), then I dragged and dropped those files (9,581) onto the blank iTunes screen and it started to copy and analyze the files. Great... I've done this method a few times before. Takes a few hours on my 2.5 year old MBP.
Today was different, however. Now approximately 7,000 of the mp3s did not copy over all of the ID3 information. The only thing that carried over was the "Name" field and the artwork. On top of that some have only the "Name" field but that has been overwritten to include a song number I am presuming in front of it. So now instead of it showing "Name" it shows "01 Name" or "3-04 Name". I can't remember the artists, year, comments, etc for 7K songs.
Anyone know what happened and how to get the library fixed?
UPDATE: I've also tried this on iTunes 12.0.1 and same thing.
UPDATE #2: I picked a random song out of my old iTunes library (the folder on my Desktop) and did CMD+I to Get Info. In there I can see the song's information like artist, length, comments, etc. I went into iTunes and created another new library, and tried dragging just this one song in. The song copies over but again only the name and artwork. I'm at a loss as I now have approximately 7K songs that cannot import in properly. Can anyone help!?!?
Thanks,
Keith
Today was different, however. Now approximately 7,000 of the mp3s did not copy over all of the ID3 information. The only thing that carried over was the "Name" field and the artwork. On top of that some have only the "Name" field but that has been overwritten to include a song number I am presuming in front of it. So now instead of it showing "Name" it shows "01 Name" or "3-04 Name". I can't remember the artists, year, comments, etc for 7K songs.
Anyone know what happened and how to get the library fixed?
UPDATE: I've also tried this on iTunes 12.0.1 and same thing.
UPDATE #2: I picked a random song out of my old iTunes library (the folder on my Desktop) and did CMD+I to Get Info. In there I can see the song's information like artist, length, comments, etc. I went into iTunes and created another new library, and tried dragging just this one song in. The song copies over but again only the name and artwork. I'm at a loss as I now have approximately 7K songs that cannot import in properly. Can anyone help!?!?
Thanks,
Keith