deleting songs that can not be found in itunes

[padi_04]

lolwut?

[ChrisEPIC]

lolol
oh yes
and i'm glad i did.
this is making organizing soooo much easier

[Karlos Santos]

I actually use DougScipts to name multiple Genres in iTunes..

DOH...!!!

[ChrisEPIC]

I actually use DougScipts to name multiple Genres in iTunes..

DOH...!!!

what are dougscripts?

[Karlos Santos]

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/

[ChrisEPIC]

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/

that would be nice, if i had a mac
lol

[corgifan]

I had a similar problem: duplicates from another disk drive that can now no longer be found. Clicking each file, or even selecting multiple files with the CTRL key is still cumbersome when there are many files which need to be removed from the iTunes library.
I used the following approach: I highlighted ALL (!) songs in the iTunes library (select the first song, keep "Shift" pressed, ant then click on the last song).
Then I right-clicked "Get Info" and changed the value of a field which I never use (in my case, "Episode ID"), but by which the songs can be sorted in the library.
It takes a few minutes, if you have plenty of songs, in order to write the new ID-Tags to each file. After that, however, you can sort your files by the field just modified. Since files which cannot be located cannot be modified either, they will show up grouped together. At this point, you can simply highlight the entire bunch by using the SHIFT-selection approach again, and press delete.
The only inconvenience to this approach is that at the next scheduled backup, ALL modified files will be backed up anew. But I think this is a temporary problem, which doesn't require the user's presence anyhow, and it beats having to highlight the broken-link songs individually.

is there a way to sort only the songs that cannot be found?

i had to reorganize my music collection so i have thousands of songs that are "missing" and manually clicking is going to take days lol