Last night, I opened up iTunes on my computer to throw together a playlist and was met with something odd - all of my songs gone, all of my playlists deleted. WTF? I looked and all my folders full of mp3s were still there. So I recovered my playlists from a previous library file but even then I noticed that a lot of the files were listed as missing in iTunes.
So I re-added all the songs from my library into iTunes but now I’m noticing a lot of weird stuff. There are about 50 songs at the bottom with no artist, album information, or album artwork. On top of that, probably 20-30 albums have artist information but the track names, album name, and album artwork are missing. AND, on top of that, several albums have duplicated tracks.
Then I notice that it’s not just iTunes - the actual FILES changed in Windows. For instance, my folder for Depeche Mode’s ULTRA is there but now it’s empty. There is now a folder under Depeche Mode called “Unknown Album” that contains all the tracks from ULTRA. I also notice that some tracks are duplicated - there is now a file for “Words Don’t Mean a Thing” and also for “Words Don_t Mean a Thing”.
Nothing on my computer has changed lately. I’m running Windows 7 and it may have applied a windows update recently, I don’t really remember.
Anybody have something like this happen before? Any idea what would have caused it?