What happened to my Beatles songs? iTunes problem

[rdowns]

Fired up iTunes this morning and all my Beatles tracks have lost their album information and iTunes can't find most of the tracks. See pic. WTF? Help greatly appreciated.

 

[r.j.s]

Are they stored somewhere on an external drive that may have gotten disconnected?

 

[rdowns]

Are they stored somewhere on an external drive that may have gotten disconnected?

Nope. All stored on local drive. Rest of library is fine. Only affects about 75% of my Beatles songs.

 

[r.j.s]

Check the folders, are they actually there? If they are, check one in quicklook to see if plays.

You may have to rebuild your library ... Instructions here.

 

[rdowns]

They are there. If I manually locate the track in the appropriate album folder, the album and artwork reappear.

 

[r.j.s]

They are there. If I manually locate the track in the appropriate album folder, the album and artwork reappear.

You could do that instead of rebuilding the library, but it will be awful time consuming.

 

[rdowns]

Definitely don't want to do this manually especially given duplicate songs from albums like Love.

 

[Consultant]

Sounds like a serious problem. Tried to fix someone with the same problem over phone last night but cannot figure it out, except it started happening for this person a month ago.

I suggested the person go to apple store to have it checked out.