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iTunes has the old location (file path that no longer exist) of track with ! in front of them. I know this because if you right click on track with ! in front of it and select GetInfo (then choose no, don't locate it). Under Summary tab it has a section that shows the song's path (not working). when I try to get the track location using iTumes COM, IITFileOrCDTrack.location return empty string. So, how do I get this "where" value from Getinfo --> Summary tab?

Below is how I currently try to get track location (using C#). My entire iTunes lib has 10songs all of them point to the wrong file location so it doesn't matter which song I chose.

iTunesApp itunes = new iTunesApp(); IITLibraryPlaylist mainLibrary = itunes.LibraryPlaylist; IITTrackCollection tracks = mainLibrary.Tracks; IITFileOrCDTrack currTrack; currTrack = tracks[5] as IITFileOrCDTrack; Console.WriteLine(currTrack.location) //output is blank.
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When the file is found, the "where" value shows C:\... but when the file is not found, it shows file:\\C:\... within iTunes, and from the code, you can access the location by using the Location property (a bug perhaps, with your code - capitalize the 'L' in 'Location')

From the SDK documentation:

HRESULT Location ([out, retval] BSTR *location)

Returns the full path to the file represented by this track.

Parameters: location Returns the full path to the file represented by this track.

Return values:

S_OK The operation was successful.
S_FALSE The location could not be retrieved (e.g. no file exists at the expected location).
E_POINTER location is NULL.
ITUNES_E_OBJECTDELETED This track has been deleted.
E_FAIL An unexpected error occurred.

I was able to reproduce this (i.e. see the "where" value in itunes, when the file cannot be found, and get null returned from IITFileOrCDTrack.Location. I don't think it is Unless it is undocumented, it is not possible to return the value if the actual file cannot be found.

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