All music is gone

I had several hundred songs accumulated.
after upgrading to 7.2, I openned itunes and got an error message stating all of my drivers are missing and I need to reinstall i-tunes. My library is completely empty.
If I re-install i-tunes will my songs return?

Could you explain in more detail what exactly is your situation? Do you mean that the "Purchased Items" playlist is missing from iTunes? Or that the tracks you purchased aren't shown in the iTunes Library any more? Or do you mean something else? If you'll provide a more precise description of what's going on, perhaps we can offer suggestions.

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I had 3000+ songs in my music collection. I was in the Alarm app and the alarm sound option. I selected a sound/song from my music collection (heard the sample music). Then I changed my mind and selected a different song. The Alarm App froze. I pressed the home button, restarted the Alarm app and tried again. This time, there was no music to select. I exited the alarm app and clicked on my Music app. All music gone. Went to Settings, General, About...the Song count = 0.
I don't know whether this is a hardware or software problem, but the fact that something so basic is even possible, is quite worrying. Anyone else had similar strange experiences?
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Me too!
As a brand new iPod user, I have to say, I'm not impressed. Most of my library was ripped from original CDs. I hope they can be found on my system somewhere and fixed. And fast!
I am travelling overseas for three months tomorrow and now can't take my tunes with me.
Not good.
Does Apple monitor this board?

All music is gone but "other" space is full

My iPod was messing up so I reset it.
I went home and reset it (holding down the center button and menu button) while it was plugged in (mistake) and after that all my music was gone. However, when I go to memory, there's still 113 gb of "other" space taken up. This is a 120 gb ipod classic.
Is there any hope of recovering my music or do I have to restore?

Could you explain in more detail what exactly is your situation? Do you mean that the "Purchased Items" playlist is missing from iTunes? Or that the tracks you purchased aren't shown in the iTunes Library any more? Or do you mean something else? If you'll provide a more precise description of what's going on, perhaps we can offer suggestions.

Updated itunes today now all music is gone, completely gone

Please help. My daughter and I have been purchasing songs from the i tunes store for years and this morning when we updated it it now says welcome... and all the music is gone, completely gone. I have tried to go back to a previous library but they are very small files. We had GIGS of music! Where did it all go and why does i tunes do this??? My daughter synced her iPod yesterday but with only a couple play lists not the whole library now our years of adding and sorting songs are gone!

The first thing to try is this:
No content after updating
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1967?viewlocale=en_US
If that doesn't work, where do you keep your music files? Is it in the standard location which is the iTunes Music folder in the iTunes folder, or somewhere else such as an external drive?
You need to check in your music folder to see if your music files are still there. They almost always will be.

I accidently synced my ipod to itunes and all musics are gone

I recently used other program called copytrans manager to transfer musics to my ipod
and yesterday I don't know why I did it, but I hit the backup button, assuming that will save my musics files too,
and hit the sync! but I felt weird so I canceled the sessions as soon as the syncing process was ongoing.
However, after that, I clicked music file on my ipod to listen to music and
musics kept skipping to the next one and finally all of them are gone and I only have
2 musics which I purchased in itunes store. and in my playlists, sopt mark in the circle was shown right next to the title of the music.
my ipod is 5th generation and I was about to update mine to 7.02, I think? and I am using the latest itunes.
I used to have about 900 songs in my ipod and my itunes has only 400 out of 900. so....
Is there any way that I can recover my ipod? like is there any time machine?
please help me please!! I am desperate now!!!

Thank you for all the supports and answers.
But I have a new problem here.
I connected my ipod to my mac and turned on the itunes.
And I still haven't done anything to my ipod. (haven't re-synced or tried to fix my problem. my situation is same as my original post says,)
I clicked 'my ipod's music'section on itunes' sidebar.
And surprisingly, all my old music are still there, but with some greyed titles.
What do i have to do? I don't want my situation to get any worse.
What is needed if I want my musics back?
Help me please!

Got iTunes match, synced up music from laptop to phone, headed out listening to playlist, all of a sudden, mid-song, music stopped and all music was gone and needed to be re-downloaded

Ok, so I initially bought the cloud mainly in the hopes that I could store all of my music on it and have access to it on my phone, which ended up not being the case. Fine. So I man up and get iTunes match, sync everything up between my laptop and my phone, make a playlist and head out listening to it. All of a sudden while I'm out, mid-song, the music stops. I go to see what's going on and everything is gone and has the icon to download next to it, and now I'm away from my wifi to boot, so charges apply. I don't understand. Now I have iCloud on my phone with 25 GB Total Storage and 25 GB Available because I don't understand what I should be using it for and iTunes match which, what, only works when I'm within spitting distance of my laptop? I've tried to get everything sorted out, paying a fee each time, and hitting roadblocks every step of the way; and on top of it, my phone is constantly telling me it can't do this or that because I don't have enough storage?? I realize I'm a bit of a noob, but c'mon, it shouldn't be this complicated or difficult, should it?

If you have no network access (3G, Wi Fi) you cannot stream music from the cloud. Period.The way you stop the behavior is to enable 3G, or pre-download the tracks you think you will want to listen to.

Updated ipod touch, all music is gone now....

I just updated my ipod touch to the latest software.. 2.something. After it was done updating, all the music and filed on it are now gone... a lot of them were purchased on the ipod music store and when i plugged my ipod into my computer, it didnt sync them over like it is supposed to.. where are my music.. there are probably 100$ worth of songs on my ipod that were purchased from the built-in itunes that i cant just put back on....

I have just purchased an ipod touch on Saturday and went home and synced it with my itunes library. After syncing I also got a message about a software update 2.1 (I believe) for $9.95, after it was done installing I disconnected and packed it up. I work on the road so I got up on Sunday and left for Iowa. Sunday evening I turned my on ipod touch and there was nothing on it. I will not be home till Friday so I am gonna drive myself nuts wondering what happened but from what I have read in the other posting is that if I go home and plug in my ipod then it will sync all my songs in my itunes library? I had not purchased anything on my ipod touch yet. I also did not pay attention to anything about backing up or resyncing after update. I guess dumb on my part for not reading it better. Sorry to the other guys for losing songs after their update. I guess I can be thankful that I had not purchased anything yet.

HELP NEEDED! 80Gb Classic , all Music is gone!

Hi everybody, I'm desperately looking for help.
Some days ago I was using iTunes, as always. Then I ejected my iPod...everything as usual, except that the Apple logo appeared on my iPod...after several seconds, it comes out the language selection menu, and then I noticed that all the music, 7999 tracks, were gone!
Now the iPod isn't recognized by iTunes, and Windows Vista sees it, but tells me that it needs to be formatted in order to be used. My iPod wasn't synchronized with the iTunes Library, I used to add songs manually. Unfortunately, my external HD, where I kept all my stuff, including songs, is broken too!
What should I do in order to have all my songs back?

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
Sounds like the iPod's library is damaged and so it needs to restored. If the media files are still present on the drive then the following may help.
*Recover media from iPod*
See this post from Zevoneer for options on moving your iPod data back to your computer.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7217190#7217190
Some of the tools linked to will only work if the iPod has a valid library. Others can scan the drive independently and some may even be able to rebuild a damaged library. The manual method towards the end should be able to recover your media regardless of the state of the library.
If the files system itself appears empty on the drive then you may just get luck with a drive undelete tool. There are free ones out there but it is ages since I had a use for one as I maintain decent backups.
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Camera Connector with DSC-P150 - all music has gone from Ipod

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Try holding down the Shift key in Windows when launching iTunes 7. In the resulting dialogue you will get the option to create a new library or navigate to an existing one. The default location for your iTunes library is in \Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\. Look in there and see if you have more than one library file (they have the extension .itl) If you have more than one try opening them in turn, you may find your original library is still intact: How to open an alternate iTunes Library file
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I have an iPod touch and none of the music shows up on my iPod but does on computer after synching. Never did this before. All music appears gone. Can u help?

My iPod touch will not show any of the music after synching to computer. The music only shows in iTunes Store. Never happened before. Can you help?

Try:
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- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
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- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try another cable
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
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IPod sync doesn't transfer files--but iPod is now missing all music/videos

I added some older songs to my library last night and this morning-they had been on a previous hard drive which I finally linked up with and imported them (just the music, nothing else).
I am using a 30gb 5.5 iPod, Windows XP pro SP2, Itunes 7.3 and my itunes and all files are kept on an external HDD. Never had a problem till now.
I imported the desired songs, and I can see them in my itunes library. So I connected my ipod to charge and to sync, and it said it was done syncing so I checked. And before I even checked, the bar that details ipod capacity had me worried-it went from 10gig free, to 27 gig free...
So I checked my ipod, and all music is gone. All movies and tv shows are gone. Only thing that survived was apparently my photos.
I did a restore of the ipod (since it was pretty much empty now anyways), and then re-synced when it was done, and the sync is completed way too fast, considering theres almost 20 gig waiting for it, and of course, nothing is going over.
I did, before it crapped out, go into movies/tv and select what I did and didnt want to sync, but I have since then gone back to the defaults, and that isn't helping.
Any ideas? Right now I have all my files usable in iTunes, but an empty iPod

Someone may have a better explanation, but I decided to remove the iPod from my system via my computer, rebooted, reconnected and now it's synching
though, oddly enough, 100 Beatles songs that I ripped from my CDs using iTunes, can't be located so I have to rip again I guess.....wasnt a problem before because the songs were on the iPod.
ah well

I have a ipod touch. i updated the software and now have lost all music. havent got a backup or the songs as my laptop has broke how do i get the songs back ?

I put all my cd's on my ipod on my old laptop. now i did the update on itunes on my new laptop and all music has gone from the ipod.
Is there anyway of getting it back?

All you can get back is your iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
You will have to rerip the CDs unless you can find a copy.
When you restore or update an iPod, if synced media is not in the iTunes library it will not be on the iPod after the restore/update since the backup that iTunes makes does not included synced media like apps and music.

Everytime i eject my ipod and reconnect it all my music is gone. and sometimes while i try adding music to it. itunes completely freezes. please help. and sometimes when i plug it back into my PC i have to rename my ipod and such

Everytime i eject my ipod and reconnect it all my music is gone. and sometimes while i try adding music to it. itunes completely freezes. please help. and sometimes when i plug it back into my PC i have to rename my ipod and such

Antivirus has a tendency to freeze iTunes sync Operation with iPod Classic, causing a timeout, which corrupt your iPod filesystem, so when iTunes can't read the iPod, it is pointing to this problem. Other causes is when your iPod hardisk is dying, or your battery is dying causing hardisk crashes.
My suggestion.
Connect your iPod to the PC and run chkdsk, to fix any iPod diskerror, then disconnect it, after chkdsk complete.
Disconnect your PC from Internet. (just to make sure no nasties creep into your system while you syncing.
Stop the Antivirus program
Connect your Ipod to the PC
When iTunes Open up, Restore your iPod please, this is for iTunes to map correctly, to fix the corrupted filesystem.
When Restore complete, eject the iPod and reconnect again.
Sync your ipod, preferably manually Manage in small batches and disconnect after every batch, to check that all is well, since you got such a huge library.
When all sync is complete, and iPod disconnected, start back your Antivirus and connect back the Internet.
If this doesn't resolve your problem, then let me know.
Good Luck!

All my music is gone playlists,library,I have a brand new Itunes account looking for my old one how to do please

Opened I tunes and all my music is gone. Playlists, library everything. The page looks brand new not mine lol. What 2 do? I am just sick 3000 songs imported from cds and much music bought from I tunes store. Please help if possible. I have cancer and my music is everything to me Thanks all.

Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash
Hopefully it's not been too long since you last upgraded iTunes, in fact if you get an empty/incomplete library immediately after upgrading then with the following steps you shouldn't lose a thing or need to do any further housekeeping. In the Previous iTunes Libraries folder should be a number of dated iTunes Library files. Take the most recent of these and copy it into the iTunes folder. Rename iTunes Library.itl as iTunes Library (Corrupt).itl and then rename the restored file as iTunes Library.itl. Start iTunes. Should all be good, bar any recent additions to or deletions from your library.
See iTunes Folder Watch for a tool to catch up with any changes since the backup file was created.
When you get it all working make a backup!
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