Playlists no longer exist?

Although I have been frequently updating my Nano, when I attached the USB, it wiped off all the songs from my ipod. A pop up display reads: "Songs on the Ipod can not be updated because all of the playlists selected for updating no longer exist"
I can see my playlists and listen to my itunes music, but can't get it to my nano. I downloaded and ran the updater software. I'd appreciate any help (in real simple terms)
thanks!

This is what happens when your iTunes library is bigger than the storage space on your iPod and you have automatic update selected.
In such cases iTunes by default makes a new playlist called iPod Selection. If you don't like that extra playlist cluttering your source bar, and delete it, you will not be able to sync your iPod.
Follow the instructions in the link.

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Playlists no longer exist for updating??

My playlists on itunes are still listed along with all of the songs that are in them.. i can play the songs from the computer and nothing appears to have changed.... but recently I keep getting a message saying something like " songs cannot be updated because the selected playlists no longer exist" whenever i try to update my ipod and now all of the songs and info on my ipod are gone.
The only odd thing that has happened right before this was that a message came up saying "itunes can automatically create a playlist of songs that it chooses" I accidently agreed and as soon as another playlist was created i deleted it, and ever since i try to update my ipod i keep getting the above statement about the playlists no longer existing. What's the deal?
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What's the deal?
It seem like your iTunes Library now exceeds the size of your iPod and iTunes is (unsuccessfully) looking for the playlist that you accidentally deleted
Have a look at this article in the Apple Knowledge Base for some background.
Your best bet is to recreate that playlist, naming it your iPod's name Selection, and put the music you want transferred over in that playlist.
iTunes should be able to take care of things from there.

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I am really getting frustrated with my iPod nano. First it started off by not updating songs. Then it started to erase songs when i connected it to itunes. So i erased everything hoping that would fix it. But now when I try to put them back on the computer says iPod update complete but there are no songs. It also say that the iPod can't be updated because the playlists no longer exist.
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Ok, first try a restore. Next, on the playlist issue...
Did you delete the playlists from iTunes? If so, then the iPod is trying to automatically update, but it can't, since the playlists no longer exist. Try putting your iPod into manually update; you can find that in the iPod Options tab.

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Last night I was downloading new songs for my ipod mini and i connected it to my computer to transfer the songs but when i checked the ipod there was no songs, not even one. I dont know what happened! and the message says that my playlist no longer exist but i still have all my songs in the library. Can somebody help me???

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Hope someone can help me...
My ipod mini was full so i set about deleting albums, it then should have had enough space to update but it still wouldn't work. iTunes then automatically created a playlist called 'selected tunes' (i think) which i deleted. My iTunes library is fine but now all my music is deleted from my ipod and now the following error message comes up when i try and sync it:
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Please help - i have tried all the trouble shooting links nbut cant figure it out
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See this user tip.
The iPod cannot be updated because one or more playlists no longer exist.
For versions of iTunes from 7 onwards, the option to "update selected playlists" is now under the "music" tab in the summary screen.

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hiya!
And my playlists are still on the left side in my iTunes. They do exist.
let's just doublecheck this. folks get this message if they have "automatically update selected playlists only" selected in their itunes "ipod" preferences tab. so bring up that tab ("edit > preferences", click "ipod" while the ipod is showing up in the source list), and do a playlist by playlist crosscheck of the playlists selected in that tab, and the playlists showing up in the itunes sourcelist.
is there any playlist selected in the preferences tab that isn't showing up in the sourcelist?
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You get this problem when the option 'Sync Music - Selected playlists' is being used to sync your iPod. If the playlist selected is deleted from iTunes the iPod no longer has a location to sync from and you get an error. (Syncing selected playlists by the way is a useful setting to use when the iPod is smaller than the iTunes library). However you can make a new one or make use of an existing one.
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I'm suddenly unable to sync my iPod because the playlists no longer exist.

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"cannot be synced because all of the playlists no longer exist"

I have a 2nd gen nano. I have had no problems with itunes since I purchased it in July last year. I bought my husband a 3rd gen nano for christmas. I had basically all the songs in my itunes that he wanted so I hooked his new ipod up. It wanted me to install 7.5 and seemed to work just fine. I got everything downloaded to his and was quite proud of myself~thinking that was too easy. Anyhow I then plugged in my 2nd gen in and I don't remember exactly what it said but it created a new playlist for me. I had already created and saved my own earlier that had all my favorites shuffled~just how I wanted it. The itunes created playlist was in order by album and couldn't get it to shuffle so before really thinking about what I was doing deleted the itunes created playlist. UGG! Now when I plug in my ipod it says "songs on the ipod "amys ipod" cannot be synced because all of the playlists selected for syncing no longer exist". I also have no songs on my ipod anymore! What do I do?!?!?

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