iTunes exclamation mark

[admarlow]

I loaded iTunes up with my music that I had backed up on DVD's. At first only some songs would play now none of them will had every song now has an exclamation mark next to it! What am I doing wrong?

[liquidsuite]

When you 1st have itunes and ipod connected it is set as defualt. This mean when you add a new track on your ipod via itunes it backs it up on your computer as well in itunes folder. Also as you put it from cd if cd is not in drive when you next connect ipod thats why you get explanation mark next to all.
The best set if you go to preferences is to make it manual and make it so it does not back anything up. By having it manual means you can upload from externals, cds, and not need to have it in next time you upload. I have all my songs on my external. If I download a new album to my computer, I just drag it onto ipod via itunes. After its done this I just backit up myself onto external and then delete it from hard drive.
Hope that helps.

[Hammer]

Did you actually copy the files back from the DVD to the PC's hard drive? If not then itunes won't be able to find them.

Delete all your tunes from itunes and add them to the library again, but first change your preferences: Preferences - advanced - copy music to itunes folder (or something like that).

Then when you add them, it will also copy them to your PC.