Thread: Music files not found since changing storage location

I've had a 40gb ipoid for about 3 years now and it works perfectly but since I shifted the music files to an external drive for storage capacity reasons, a number of songs can't be found when I attempt to play them in iTunes on my computer. I tried cutting and pasting back to the original location but that didn't work. I find it difficult to understand the explantions in itunes help but it seems like I needed to have done it one song at a time. Is that correct?

I am also in the market for a video ipod because my wife is always using mine but need to know I can get all my songs onto the thing. Can anyone help me understand what I need to do to minimise the effort.

What I do whenever there is a need to move the music collection is to delete all the songs on iTunes (without deleting the files) and then tell iTunes to scan for songs in the new location. I'll lose any ratings or play counts but those are not important to me.

Multiple iPods can sync to the same music library, but I believe that there's a limit of 5 devices per song.

Many thanks for your reply. I've consolidated my music into one place on my computer then shifted it all into iTunes and it went onto my new ipod. Trouble is the music doesn't appear in my music list within itunes itself, only when I connect the ipod does it show up and only then it's under the device itself. Is that how it's supposed to work?
And it appears that I have duplicates of the same song as I had albums under Beatles and The Beatles. How does iTunes handle groups staring with "The"?