ALBUMS KEEP REPEATING THEMSELVES

When I sync itunes with the iphone, the albums keep repeating themselves, so I will have say, 15 copies of one album on the iphone - this is really frustrating and has only just started recently.

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When I sync itunes with the iphone, the albums keep repeating themselves, so I will have say, 15 copies of one album on the iphone - this is really frustrating and has only just started recently.
Just check in iTunes and see if you can see more than one copy of the album/s, if you can, just delete the duplicates.

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ITunes Match keeps repeating and Sonos Play 5!

So this note has two pieces to it, one related to iTunes Match and the other is Sonos Play 5. First an observation about the iTunes Match repeating problem. I wanted to start using iTunes Match for a couple of reasons so I started to run it. It went through Step 1 and Step 2, started Step 3, stopped and restarted on Step 1.
So I was reading trying to find a solution in the Apple Support Community. Some suggested that there was a corrupted song in the library so I went back to watch to see if I could catch when it left Step 3 to go back to Step 1. I was not really able to see exactly were it was reverting back to Step 1.
I then discovered ajlewis1851 note about reset Match, Store and the computer (https://discussions.apple.com/message/20530276#20530276)
I also discovered a song that was not in my library so I deleted that from the library as well. Neither of these seemed to work and it was back repeating itself.
I left Match running while I was doing more searching and I discovered the thread about gating the upload speed as the upload speed might be the problem. Well I spent a long time trying to figure out how to slow my Airport Extreme Base Station down and then I noticed that Match was uploading between 2-15 files before it would kick back to the beginning and the total number of files to be uploaded was slowly decreasing.
Low and behold after quite some time, Match finally finished and said it was done! This has to be some serious bug in Match, but eventually it got done. Not sure whether the two steps before helped or not.
Now to the beginning of the story. I started down this path because I was setting up a new iPod Touch to serve as controller for my new Sonos Play 5 system. Everything seemed to work fine with Pandora and I was very excited. Synced a few playlist from my iTunes library and for many of the songs there was the dreaded ‘unplayable icon”-circle with a line through it! Did some additional searching and discovered that the iPod Touch to Sonos Play 5 was only possible with DRM songs.
This is an aside. It is necessary to place this discovery against my experience of playing my iPod thru a Sonos iPod Dock without having to worry about the DRM status of the music. My disappointment was nearly overwhelming.
But Sonos recommended a strategy of iTunes Match to remove the DRM from the songs in my library. Hence, my need for iTunes Match from the beginning of this story. But this is not a very clean solution. Even after one has done the iTunes Match, it is necessary to find all of the ‘Protected AAC audio files’ in your library, delete them and then download the ‘Purchased AAC audio files’ from the cloud. (https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/626) and Apples directions (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1711)
There are of tricks in doing this ‘Protected’ to ‘Purchased’ transition. When you select Music in your library, and then right click on the top bar above the music you can select additional columns to be shown. Select ‘Kind’ and you can see which music is protected vs purchased. You can sort this column, thus bring all of the ‘Protected’ files together, select them all and with one right click delete them! (I very very strongly recommended you have a couple of backups of your library, just in case and there is a small box in the dialogue about deleting them from the Cloud as well---MAKE SURE THIS BOX IS NOT SELECTED). Much to my delight, in the ‘Cloud’ column, you are presented with the choice to download the ‘Cloud’ version (now DRM free). As best as I can tell, one has to download each song from the Cloud individually. My fingers were very tired after millions of clicks. I did a few at a time so it took me the better part of a day to accomplish.
I was very excited because I now had DRM free music in my library (I figured this would solve the problem). I connected the iPod Touch to the library, choose not to sync my playlist so all the playlists from the iPod Touch were removed and then reselected the playlists of interest and had them placed back on the iPod. I ejected the iPod and tested the playlist on the Sonos. Much to my surprise, the unplayable songs were still unplayable!!!
I deleted the Sonos App and reinstalled it (Did not work).
I deleted the playlist from the iPod Touch, and resync it to my library (You really don’t want to do this as it also deleted the playlist from my library!) Fortunately, I had one of those backups.
I then sync another playlist to the iPod Touch. This second playlist was the complete album from which two songs were placed in the original problem playlist. Much to my surprise, all of the songs from the album were fine, EXCEPT, the two songs that were unplayable in the original playlist.
I finally came to the conclusion that something had been stored on the iPod during the initial sync with the DRM containing music that prevented the non-DRM music from working properly. With a deep breath, and only after I disable the iPod Touch connection to iCloud (in a couple different places), I then went to Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings and ran it to restore original factory settings. It was plugged into a power source.
After setting the iPod Touch up again, I reconnected it to my iTunes library and moved the problem playlist over that contained several unplayable songs. IT WORKED! All the songs were playable.
LESSONS:
1. If iTunes Match keeps repeating steps 1 and 2 watch carefully to see if the number of songs to be processed is changing for the better. If yes, at least in my situation, it completed the process, but it took much longer than I believe it should have.
2. My suspicion is that if you have installed DRM protected songs on an iPod Touch, the Sonos recommended solution will not work as stated. Interestingly, it did seem work on my iPad and 4G iPhone.
Addendum: I have discovered a few songs where the Sonos recommended solution did not work on the iPad and iPhone as well. Several are from the Madonna.

Well.....It is now working....... Including converting locked tracks located on the IPad library into unlocked 256kbps tracks playable by Sonos...
Used these steps:
Signed up for ITunes Match using ITunes on a Windows PC
Let Match do it's thing with 700 or so tracks
Followed the procedure in the link above to create a smart playlist of tracks with bit rates less than 256kbps
Using the smart playlist as a guide, I deleted or download tracks not appearing in Sonos on the PC. Then, refreshed the Sonos music library and confirmed these tracks now available and playable by Sonos
On the IPad, for tracks that were grayed out in Sonos, I deleted and re-downloaded the tracks using the Music app (swipe right to left on a track to delete it)... then got into Sonos on the IPad to confirm the tracks no longer grayed out.
So... I'm now happy.... I like the Sono system of WIFI streaming which is very flexible and produces decent sound quality, but did not realize until after buying the Sonos bridge and two Sonos speakers that older ITunes songs would not play in Sonos due to DRM locking. So, will now work through the library of locked tracks converting and re-downloading.
Thanks again for the pointers on this question.

Why does playlist on iPod keep repeating and repeating even though play count rule is 1

Hello, everyone!
I have a smart playlist of about 100 songs. The play count rule is set to play songs with a play count of less than 1. A few days ago, I reset all of the songs play count to 0. If you ask me, the way I have it set up, when the iPod is playing with my headphones on, the iPod should automatically update each songs play count to 1 after each song plays. After I have listened to all 100 songs, the playlist on the iPod should be empty. The reason is is because since each song was updated from their play count of 0 to 1 after each one played the play count rule in the playlist should show no songs in the playlist. Like I said before, the rule says to play any songs with a play count of less than 1. Since all of the play count of the 100 songs are now 1 and not less than 1, the playlist should be empty.
The problem is, when I'm listening to my iPod and the 100 songs have played, the playlist is not empty. It just keeps repeating songs and it will never stop. When I go to iTunes, the songs are randomly with play counts of 3 or 2 or 1 or however many times they have been repeated.
Does anyone know why this is?

The reason the songs don't delete themselves after playing from the playlist on the iPod is because your iPod is not smart enough to do that. It's only when you re-sync your iPod to your iTunes library does the smart playlist in your iTunes library delete the played songs. Then the playlist on your iPod will adjust to the number left unplayed in that playlist.
So as long as you don't sync back to your library the number of songs in that playlist will never reduce to zero.
CDJunkie

How do i get my music off repeat. the same song keeps repeating.

I am having difficulty getting my ipod touch off repeat. It just keep repeating the same song. I tried shuffle and it just goes to the next song and keeps repeating that song.
does anyone have a solution for this dilemma? James Jr.

Turn off the repeat control. If you touch the screen in album view this control will be to the left side of the scrubber bar.

Settings keep changing themselves

Minor settings keep tweaking themselves, such as I will make the podcast app "oldest to newest" however anytime I go out of the app then back in it becomes newest to oldest, and sometimes completely ignores my setting all together. I've got newest stuff on top. I suppose the simple solution would be to simply live with it. However its other settings as well, like the music app, it keeps going to the artist search screen sometimes while I'm trying to scroll down an album I am listening to. It's very annoying, is there something I can do to fix this?

That is a well know bug. I'm not sure of what the logic behind this procedure, but actual responses from users who tried it confirm that it works. Please switch your status to offline for at least a minute, then switch back to online. Then change your privacy settings to see if they will stick this time.
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Itouch keeps repeating same song - will not advance to next song

Hi,
My itouch, after working fine for over one year, now will not advance to the next song automatically. It keeps repeating the next song.

you haven't got the repeat button 'on' by accident have you
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b159/LUFCRACE/photo.jpg
the arrows on the left under the scroll bar. if they are blue then they are 'on'
(sounds obvious, but i solved this exact problem for someone this way only yesterday)
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I have my songs set to shuffle, but the same song just keeps repeating.

I have my songs set to shuffle, but the same song just keeps repeating itself and I have to manually advance.

Are you simply shuffling a list containing one song? When the song plays and you see the album art, do you see "1 of 1" on top?

Even when I shuffle a playlist, the same song keeps repeating.

Even when I shuffle a playlist, the same song keeps repeating.

Tap on the album art and make sure the circular repeat arrow isn't blue with a little one next to it.
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Ipod music - same first song keeps repeating?

When I play music in either albums, or under artists, playlists, it starts on the first song and then keeps repeating that same song all the time without progressing to the other music. I have looking under settings (Ipod) and cant find anything to get past this??

Start playing a song - any song.
Tap on the album cover art area to bring up the scrubber for the song.
To the left of the scrubber is the repeat icon/selection and to the right of the scrubber is the shuffle icon/selection.
If enabled, the color of the icon/selection will be blue.
Select the icon until the color of the icon turns white which means it is off.

Incoming emails keep repeating in Apple Mail

I have had all kinds of probs with Apple Mail lately, mainly to do with getting to see all my POP3 email in Gmail on my PC at work. This stopped working last week, now it is miraculously working again. Great!
But last night/this morning vast amounts of email from last few days repeated themselves, spent ages sorting througgh them and deleting repeats while being careful to watch out for new mail. That has thankfully stopped too, I have no idea why it started suddenly, or stopped or why above Gmail problem righted itself.
But now all emails are coming in twice, not as bad as above probs but annoying. They do not repeat in Gmail or mail2web.com but I use mainly Apple Mail at home. Can anyone please suggest a solution?
It must be either something in Mail Preferences or in Gmail settings. I have Mail 3.6, most Help is for 4.0 (can and should I upgrade, by the way, I uploaded some kind of upgrader but it didn't want to install).
Thank you.
Michael

I unchecked auto forward in Rules several days ago so I don't think it's that. Must be sthg in Mail prefs or possibly Gmail settings but I'll be darned what... Asked my (expensive) ISP and they said it's to do with Mail, nothing to do with them. Have also asked former ISP whose email address I still use (pay them £12 a year, good value), no reply so far...
It's strange how things keep changing (forwarding to Gmail stopped working for a few days, now working again), doubling of email only in Apple Mail not in webmail...
Michael

ITunes keeps repeating same song

I'm trying to listen to some of my music from my Windows desktop. I locate the album I want and start the first song, but it won't advance to the next song - it just keeps repeating the first song. I have iTunes 12.0.1.26.
Anyone know what I am not doing correctly?
Thanks,
Diane Koers

I'm trying to listen to some of my music from my Windows desktop. I locate the album I want and start the first song, but it won't advance to the next song - it just keeps repeating the first song. I have iTunes 12.0.1.26.
Anyone know what I am not doing correctly?
Thanks,
Diane Koers

Songs keep repeating, even on shuffle

If I leave it on shuffle, same song just keeps repeating. If I manually coax it to next song, it does indeed change song, but that song will just keep repeating, and so on, and so on.
If I switch to Genius playlist, same thing. First song will play, but keep repeating???
Am I missing something here? Maybe a setting I'm overlooking?
Thanks for any info!
Tim

You have Repeat trurned on.
Tap the album cover.
Under the scroll bar on the left side is the two arrows in a circle.
Tap it until it is not blue.

When i go to buy an app on my ipod touch, i click the buy button then the install button and it just keeps repeating itself then dissappears, why is this?

when i go to buy an app on my ipod touch, i click the buy button then the install button and it just keeps repeating itself then dissappears, why is this? help me please, i cant download no apps.

If you have iOS 3.1.3 then it is an Apple problem.

TS1292 I bought a 4 pack of $25 Itunes gift cards and only 2 will activate. For the second two it just keeps asking for my login. No error message just keeps repeating the login

I bought a 4 pack of $25 Itunes gift cards and only 2 will activate. For the second two it just keeps asking for my login. No error message just keeps repeating the login. Is there any way to fix this or did I just lose $50

Report this here:
iTunes Store Support
http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html

ITunes keep repeating a song in my playlist. The repeat icon is no longer on the upper right hand side

iTunes keep repeating a song in my playlist on my iphone (4 I thnk). The repeat icon is no longer on the upper right hand sideiTunes keep repeating a song in my playlist. The repeat icon is no longer on the upper right hand side

I looked under file but I couldn't find the "Genius & Playlist" option. I also looked under the other options on the top left side but I couldn't find it there either. And all "Genius suggestions" does for me is show similar songs already purchased in my library. It doesn't show me anything new that I haven't purchased.

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