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ITunes songs are not able to play

I've been purchasing songs from ITunes for close to 15 years and have close to 5,000 songs.

For some strange reason about 5% of my songs are indicating they are not able to be played.

The majority of the songs are ones starting with the letter 'S'. Any suggestions.

Ron

Windows, Windows 11 (22631)

Posted on Jan 15, 2025 8:06 PM

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Jan 16, 2025 1:52 AM in response to healthybusiness

Do the songs that will not play have an exclamation mark to the left of the song's title? If so, that indicates that iTunes can no longer find the file for that song. (The exclamation mark may only appear once you try to play the song.)


That in turn, means that either the song's file is no longer where it was, or it has had its filename changed or the file has been deleted. It could even be that the path name has been changed.


So the question is, have you been doing any housework on your computer, using Windows Explorer (the file manager)?

ITunes songs are not able to play

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