I do most of my iTunes listening at work, especially movie soundtracks and podcasts, with headphones while I'm working away on whatever our latest undertaking might be.
But, recently, I had to have my machine image reinstalled and I wasn't able to do a complete backup of my iTunes files beforehand. I was able to save the iTunes library XML file, but in the process of bringing files in from home as well as reimporting a handful of CDs, I ended up with a lot of "orphaned" entries in my library. That is, iTunes had entries for songs and albums eventhough the files themselves were missing. iTunes indicates these files by adding a little exclamation symbol next to their name.
I started to manually hunt down and remove these orphaned file entries but then figured, as always, there has to be a better way. Off to Google, and voila here is the iTunes Library Updater for Windows. (on the Mac, there are a lot of automator actions to handle this)
This is a handy little app which saved me about an hour of work. It very quickly searched through my iTunes library, deleting any orphaned entries as well as duplicated entries. It can also keep my iPod files in sync and search for orphans there as well.
1. | On July 3, 2007 2:07 PM, Stefan Richter added:Brilliant, just what I needed.
So you use FMS? Cool, so do I....
Stefan
2. | On October 18, 2007 6:44 PM, Wizard Prang added:Thanks! This little app solved an irritating problem for me...
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