ITunes and iPod song counts not matching

Question

I have just done a restore on my iPod Classic 160Gb, after recently reformatting and re-installing everything on my Mac Pro. Everything works fine, no problems.
However, if I check in my iTunes Library, it says I have 41153 songs,
in the iPod panel of iTunes it says I have 41427 songs, and
on the iPod display itself it says there are 41085 songs on the iPod.
I have sent iTunes to sync all music, and cannot understand why all three figures are not the same, especially the last two which are supposedly measuring the same thing. With a library this size it is almost impossible to find out which songs are not on the iPod or are being counted more than once.
Does anyone know how to resolve this?
Message was edited by: David Roper

Answer 1

Hey there,
There are a couple of things to check.
1. Make sure that if you have your iPod set to sync all checked songs and videos that each song in your iTunes library has a check mark next to it. To make sure, hold down the control key and click on one of the check marks next to a song. This may remove all of them, so you might have to do this twice to check all of the songs.
2. Make sure that you have no duplicates in your library because duplicates will not sync over to your iPod. To check this, head to the File drop down menu and choose "Show Duplicates."
3. Are there any error messages that appear when you are syncing the songs over to your iPod? If so, that may explain the difference in numbers. The error message may range from a missing file that iTunes could not locate or the song could not be copied over because it cannot be played on this iPod, and more.
Work through each of these and see if that helps.
B-rock