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iTunes screwed up iTunes+ upgrade — now what?
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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I was upgrading a significant portion of my iTunes library to iTunes+ and somehow iTunes managed to screw it up.
For no obvious reason not all of the protected songs were replaced with the unprotected versions. About 200 songs I upgraded are now listed in pairs: the older protected title next to the new unprotected version. Most of the stuff I upgraded got replaced just like it should, but it appears these 200 somehow got botched.
This is a real pain because it means I have to manually swap about 200 titles. The problem isn't removing the old protected versions That's easily done in short time. The problem is that once these files have been removed from my iTunes library they will also be removed from all my different play lists. And that means I will have to manually add every one of those 200 titles back to all the playlists its protected version had been in before.
Does anybody have an idea how this could be done easily, read automatically? I really don't feel like going through all my playlists by hand for 200 titles to find out which title is where and then dragging each of the 200 titles to the different play lists by hand. 
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Moderator  Join Date: May 2001
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Nope, but I noticed a similar problem: not all of my songs were properly replaced. I have to reapply ratings, other information such as play count and last played is lost, too. Ugh!
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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Perhaps this might work - drag and drop the plus versions from iTunes to a new folder on the desktop to copy them there (check and make sure this has happened). Within iTunes, select the plus tracks and delete them, then drag the copies back from the folder on the desktop - it might ask if you want to replace the non-plus versions. However, it could just copy them all back without doing so!
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Yeah, I thought of that and tried it too. But it will just happily import the plus tracks and put them side by side with the protected tracks. It doesn't notice that you're trying to 'upgrade'. 
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Posting Junkie
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Maybe the underlying problem is that there's no proper way to sneak in a file in place of another one. If I could just take the .m4a to replace the .m4p w/o iTunes noticing I could work around the problem. But the way it is now iTunes is trying to be really smart and follows files no matter what you do to them. Have you guys noticed that iTunes will update the link between a library entry and the path to the actual song file in real-time? Heck, it will follow it all the was to the trash. 
That was really off-topic though. Back on topic, does anybody have an idea how to fix this? And if iTunes offers no built-in way to deal with this issue, what about AppleScript or Automator? There wouldn't by any chance be a script that could do this, would there?
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