Where did my songs go?

Obviously the songs aren’t where they were before, that’s why it’s sayin they were note found. Did you drag them in off a USB device?

@XOIIO I did not mention a USB activity because I did not perform one. I purchased them from itunes and burned them to various discs. Now, for reasons that I cannot fathom, the songs are not available. I thought I had made that clear.
@janbb thank you. Crazy busy.
@HungryGuy I’ll have you know that my poetry is considered top notch among the Vogon community. You would be an ideal candidate to be strapped into a poetry appreciation chair, appreciating the finer nuances of the imagery my prose excites. Arthur has rendered the machine inoperable with his description of tea, and Marvin is busy sulking. I’m left to my own devices and will enjoy a packet of crisps while I await some useful information regarding the whereabouts of my music and the likelihood of the retrievability of same.
Trillian out.

Do you still have the CDs you burned them to before? I suppose you could put them back on your computer.

Have you looked for the songs on your computer using Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac)? Or did you just look using iTunes?

This same thing happened to my copy of Polonaise :(

iTunes has an article on how you can re-download the DRM-free copies of previously purchased music. The only downside is if the music is no longer offered by iTunes. If that’s the case then you’re SOL.

Search your iTunes folder. If the song title still exists on your playlist do this.

1. Right click song
2. Get info
3. and see where it is stored (there will be a folder located)

Also be sure to double check your trash can. Some people accidentally delete iTunes songs.
It’s important to note that iTunes makes a copy of everything. So if you downloaded them from iTunes and moved them onto the desktop for example it shouldn’t matter it would’ve been a double from iTunes. It is also possible you had the playlist set up, with the old song titles. Perhaps you changed the actual “titles” of the tracks? The slightest adjustment can do this. In this case follow these steps.

1. on iTunes under left side Library click music
2. now scroll all the way down
3. here should be “blank” artists and artists untitled and or with tracks just numbered. Sift through these tracks you might find it there.

Good luck.

Ahhhhh HA! Heh, I for sure didn’t delete them, and the titles ase totally there, they just show as “no longer available”. I went back and re purchased several songs and finished the disc for my mom. Then I went to make another for myself and several titles actually changed status when I clicked on them.
I had recently read a different article about retroactive taking back of digital content and felt so BLOODY complacent. This is what I get. The nine minute version of the CHuck Mangione song is gone, forever I guess. Thank you @tranquilsea and @authsojsa. I’ll look into that this weekend when I get some time.

That’s why I buy my music as MP3s from Amazon and back them up to different computers and a thumb drive. No DRM. Nobody can “take them back” after I purchased them.

And you really should ask your questions in Social rather than General if you truly want to get all opinions. As you’ve just seen, the mods’ opinions of what follows the guidelines and what doesn’t…what’s helpful and what’s not…can be subjective and arbitrary.

@HungryGuy I’m willing to bet the songs aren’t “gone”, it’s just that iTunes isn’t finding them where it is looking. @Trillian, you’ll have to figure out where the songs are in your computer, then get iTunes to see them. I think @auhsojsa is right – right-clicking a song will lead you to its actual location. You should be able to navigate to that location by using iTunes’ “would you like to to locate it?” If there are only a few songs, another option is to double-click (play) them from wherever they are, then within a few seconds iTunes will send them to where it thinks they should go – that might prevent the same problem from happening again.

Where file management with iTunes is concerned, I generally find it easiest to let iTunes decide where to put the files, BUT I ultimately control that by altering the information in the Artist and Album Artist fields if necessary.

@HungryGuy How does the iTunes purchase work? Is it not mandatory that it is saved as MP3? Just DRM?

Ok, allow me to clarify this. I tried all the helpful suggestions before turning to Fluther for help. I clicked the “search” option which took me to the windows search. I then did an advanced search. The files have been removed from my computer. I tried to “play” and got the same message, file not found. The files are NOT on my rig. My question was about copyright and/or arbitrary “We don’t want you to have this anymore.”
I am aware that the user agreements for digital content allows for this, I just wanted to see something concrete, like; “x amount of burned copies and we yank” or “These songs recorded on this label are now out of circulation…” or something.
@tranquilsea, thank you for the link. That’s what I’m in the process of doing. I guess this may have happened when I did the last, (forced, by the way) update to apple 10.5 or whatever the crap number they’re up to now. Lord god I hate software updates. Thank you everyone for your input.

@Trillian Overall I think you got a shit end of the stick when you handed your hard earned money to the industries you bought it from. MP3’s always, stick with that next time around.