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Song titles turned into numbers

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At the top of my iTunes Library are songs listed as they should be. At the bottom of my iTunes Library, however, are a large number of song titles that have been changed to very long numbers. Some of the numbers are negative numbers. The duration of the song is displayed, but no other information shows. I can play the songs by clicking on them. The Get Info option displays no information other than the long number. Can anyone tell me how to correct this situation?

I'm using MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite.

Thanks

I have the identical situation, albeit with iTunes 12.4.1.6.  I just bought an Anthology (Tom Petty) and about half the songs did not contain the title, just a long number.

The rest of the information is complete.  I had bought the music from my iPad and when I synced to my iMac the songs were transferred.  That is where the data is messed up.  The songs appear to be fine on the iOS devices.

I am guessing there are two choices for solutions.  Delete the songs from the iMac and redownload them.

Or, just type in the song titles manually using "get info".

Does the Get Info > Summary show a file name?

Are you missing tracks?

Thanks for your help!

I'm not sure if I'm missing tracks. I haven't looked for any that weren't there anyway.

There's not a Get Info > Summary on my version of iTunes (12.1.0.50). Get Info > Name shows the name of the track as a number. Get Info > File shows the track information - all fields filled in. Get Info > Options has some info. Get Info > Sorting has only the name of the track as a number.

The ones I checked were all purchased tracks.

Should I just type over the number "names" with the real track name?

I have the identical situation, albeit with iTunes 12.4.1.6.  I just bought an Anthology (Tom Petty) and about half the songs did not contain the title, just a long number.

The rest of the information is complete.  I had bought the music from my iPad and when I synced to my iMac the songs were transferred.  That is where the data is messed up.  The songs appear to be fine on the iOS devices.

I am guessing there are two choices for solutions.  Delete the songs from the iMac and redownload them.

Or, just type in the song titles manually using "get info".

Yes, those are probably your options. You can report the issue to Apple but unless they can reproduce it there is likely nothing they can do. Even if they can I personally would not wait for them to fix it since it will likely involve re-downloading something somewhere anyway.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

I made mistake of downloading my purchases from Apple Store on my new SE phone as it wouldn't synch with my MacBook Pro ( older iOS was the reason) anyways, lots of songs downloaded had numbers for titles. Also, when on music on my phone and on wifi also seems to be spinning icon at top right screen not sure what is going on. Any ideas or solutions?

I have the same problem and I disagree with the Apple approved resolution of it.  I think it is a cop-out for Apple to put the burden on the user to address the problem.  Why did it arise in the first place?  It is not one that is unique to you.  Imhabe a substantial music library on iTunes.  Apparently Apple doesnt care about that or appreciate how much time is involved in trashing and redownloading every song that has a string of numbers as a title.  I was hoping that Apple could do better than that. 

As can now synch my SE phone with my MacBook Pro ( had to upgrade from leopard to lion to sierra) I can delete bad files from phone and transfer good files from my computer. Alternatively I can edit bad titles on phone as I can look up correct title on computer. Still a big nuisance for sure. PS- all files with numbers for titles were originally free downloads from iTunes from good old days when new free songs and videos were offered each week. Hope this helps.

HI the problem just popped up on my brand new iPad Air after syncing it with my iTunes library : my library seems fine, but the songs on the iPad after the first albums in the "recent" playlist just display a number instead lf the somg name... *** Apple ?

Same problem here with my iPhone 6 plus. This started about week ago when my Music app recently added started showing some old songs and albums as most recent and some song titles have changed into some weird number string. The songs and the albums have one thing in common - I have bought them originally from iTunes store. If I look at these songs in my iTunes library they seem ok as ever. The sync between my Mac and iPhone does not fix the situation.

I don't like the solution either where I should delete all the corrupted songs and then download them again. Something has gone wrong and Apple should find out the reason. Otherwise it will happen again.

Has a solution been found for this. I have similar problem. This applies to about 22 tracks which are also available on my iCloud. Is there a solution that does not involve deleting anything?

Well, you can try this which won't involve deleting anything but won't do anything about any corrupt files on your computer now.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Hi thats just the feedback form, did you have a fix you were going to share?

I have completed the form and also asked my local store to assist. I have not received any feedback from Apple as yet.

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