Geek Posted December 8, 2010 Posted December 8, 2010 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/fix-itunes-missing-playlists.jpg" alt="fix itunes missing playlists" title="fix itunes missing playlists" width="530" height="90" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10714" /></p> <p>If you have updated iTunes or <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/11/30/move-the-itunes-library/">moved your iTunes music library</a> you may find that your song playlists seem to have disappeared. The good news is they aren’t actually missing, iTunes just isn’t finding them. There is no bad news, because you can recover the playlists rather easily, here’s how:</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.3em;">Recover missing iTunes playlists</h2> <p>This will work to rebuild missing iTunes playlists in Mac OS X and Windows. </p> <ul> <li>Quit iTunes</li> <li>Open the iTunes Music folder, on a Mac this is by default in ~/Music/ and in Windows it’s in My DocumentsMy MusiciTunes or UsernameMy Music</li> <li>Drag the file labeled “iTunes Music Library.xml” to your desktop </li> <li>Drag the “iTunes Library” file to the desktop as well (make sure this is no longer in your iTunes folder at all)</li> </ul> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/recover-itunes-playlists1.jpg" alt="recover itunes playlists" title="recover itunes playlists" width="573" height="347" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10715" /></p> <ul> <li>Now relaunch iTunes</li> <li>Before doing anything else, go to File -> Library -> Import Playlist</li> <li>Now navigate to your desktop to the “iTunes Music Library.xml” file that you placed there earlier and select it</li> <li>iTunes will recreate your playlists, and any iOS devices you have synced with iTunes will resync their playlists as well</li> </ul> <p>The reason we are ensuring these files are on the desktop is to have a backup in the odd case that the rebuild doesn’t work. You’ll notice after you have reimported the playlists that the ‘iTunes Music Library.xml’ file will be rebuilt in your iTunes Music directory, once everything is functioning you can safely delete those files from the desktop.</p> <p>I’m not really sure why the iTunes playlists disappear during some transfers and updates, but it seems to happen randomly. The last time I ran into this I was <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/21/copy-itunes-library-from-a-pc-to-a-mac/">moving iTunes music from a PC to a new Mac</a> which worked wonderfully until I discovered none of the playlists were there. Just moving the file and then reimporting it did the trick though. </p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DN21k8sq5z1S2BGpOiyJqcHDQz0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DN21k8sq5z1S2BGpOiyJqcHDQz0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DN21k8sq5z1S2BGpOiyJqcHDQz0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DN21k8sq5z1S2BGpOiyJqcHDQz0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=_STUMhLb02I:45vwRYuUbD4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=_STUMhLb02I:45vwRYuUbD4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=_STUMhLb02I:45vwRYuUbD4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=_STUMhLb02I:45vwRYuUbD4:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=_STUMhLb02I:45vwRYuUbD4:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=_STUMhLb02I:45vwRYuUbD4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=_STUMhLb02I:45vwRYuUbD4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/_STUMhLb02I" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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