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Question

iTunes Add to Library freezes on strange file

Feb 29, 2012 6:55AM PST

My iTunes tracks are stored on an external hard drive in the folder:
[hard drive]/iTunes

I want to make a new iMac aware of them so I can play them using iTunes. It is running Lion (10.7.2),

I uncheck "Copy tunes to iTunes media folder..." in iTunes Preferences, select Add to Libary... and navigate to [hard drive]/iTunes

The process starts fine - lots of track names scrolling past at the speed you'd expect. But then it freezes on the track name "download.mp3" and has to be Force Quit.

I don't appear to have a track called "download.mp3". I have used Spotlight and Finder to search for it and looked manually in the likely place (it appears to be very early on in the process). I have also made hidden files visible but to no avail. The closest I have is the folder:
[hard drive]/iTunes/Album Artwork/Download

After Force Quit the local iTunes folder and content appear not to have been updated at all.

Any thoughts as to:
revealing the file download.mp3?
skipping it?
anything else?

Thanks in advance.

David

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Clarification Request
It's possible the mp3 file you noted is corrupt.
Feb 29, 2012 7:10AM PST
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Re: Clarification request: It's possible the mp3 file you no
Feb 29, 2012 7:22AM PST

Thanks. I suspect the file doesn't exist as Spotlight couldn't find it and the Terminal command mdfind returned just this:

Mines-iMac:~ mine$ mdfind "kMDItemFSName = download"
/Volumes/Terabyte/iTunes/Album Artwork/Download
/Users/mine/Music/iTunes/Album Artwork/Download
/Volumes/Terabyte/Library/Application Support/2005 World Book/Download
/Volumes/Terabyte/Users/david/Documents/iTunes/Album Artwork/Download
/Volumes/Terabyte/Users/david/Music/iTunes/Album Artwork/Download
Mines-iMac:~ mine$

Plus, I tried the Add to Library again and this time it froze on "download.m4v", which again doesn't exist.

Will try updating iTunes now.

David

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Now that helped.
Feb 29, 2012 9:09AM PST
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Rogue file
Mar 5, 2012 4:04AM PST

I have updated everything, repaired disk etc. No luck.

It hangs adding a "file" download.mp3 (and once download.m4v) to the library. This file doesn't appear to be anywhere.

Any ideas about finding and killing it?

Thanks

David

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Sorry.
Mar 5, 2012 5:21AM PST

I'm not on your machine so I can't try things like moving new stuff off the HDD to some memory stick for testing.

Your posts had me think "MP3 VALIDATOR". Let's google for that?

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=mp3+validator+mac

Yup, folk are thinking about this.
Bob