I have had a lot of issues with iTunes just randomly losing track of songs: they’re in the library, the file exists and is in the right place, but iTunes has forgotten this fact. Out of many thousand songs, I only learn of this when a sync throws an error.

The sync says it can’t locate some files. OK, I go try to find the problem files. Sure enough some random song in some random album has a little exclamation point next to it. So I have to, by hand, reassociate the file with the library entry. And this could be made a lot easier.

How about looking for the damned file in the same folder as all the other songs on the album for me, hmm? You have 14 of 15 tracks that you’re sure are in this/folder, why not try to look in this/folder for that 15th track? How about providing me with a command to check the integrity of the library, so I don’t have to get surprised by this? How about allow me to drag a file from the Finder onto these bad entries in the library, a faster way than navigating your stupid file dialogue every damned time?

How about not letting the library fuck itself up every now and then? Sheesh.

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