IOS – Some songs are skipped over/broken on the iPhone; how can I find these

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Sometimes when I go to play a song on my iPhone, it skips over it entirely and goes onto a song after it in the list.

The same happens when I try and play it in iTunes directly from the device – it gets a exclamation-mark-circle icon to its left when I try and play.

The songs have all been copied on by drag/drop from MP3 folders, so I suspect the copy process didn't completely properly. Is there a way I can find all these songs so I can re-copy them? (Trying to copy the entire album over again creates duplicate entries.)

Best Answer

Finally found an answer to this, thanks to Galley from iLounge!

  1. Create a standard playlist called "Not Missing".
  2. Drag your entire library into that playlist. Missing tracks cannot be copied to a playlist.

  3. Create a smart playlist called "Missing" where:

    • Playlist - is not - Not Missing
    • (additional to this post) Media type - is - Music

You now have a playlist which contains only your songs with the dreaded exclamation mark, and you can re-add them from your original source.

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