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Trouble in computerland! iTunes update bug?
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On my Tunes (7.5) running on an I-Mac the only change is a few tracks now have SortName listings.

On my Dual Core I-Mac running 7.5 Tunes it has no Sort Name listing but has frozen up twice recently which is unheard of.

Something could be afoot......

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while fixing the tags on a disc I had ripped the other day I noticed something very strange.

Lots of tracks had a little '!' icon in the left-hand column of the library view and if I tried to play them I got the message 'The song XYZ could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?'

Hallelujah. I thought it was me. My Mac mini had a hard-drive failure, and when I restored the OS and programs, I updated iTunes. After I had restored the iTunes Library from my backup, I got this message also on some tracks.


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Half an hour and a lot of head-scratching later it finally clicked. All the 'missing' tracks had an 8-bit character (what North Amercians sometimes call 'special' characters, presumably because they're jealous), I mean characters like '
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