Connected Ipod lost all playlists, songs in itunes and on ipod

I connected my video ipod to my computer, not for the first time, and all my songs and playlists were erased from my ipod and, in my itunes library, I lost all my playlists, recently purchased songs, and recently played folder. Why? How can I retrieve my playlists? How can I prevent this from happening again? Jeannine

Weird.
While there's plenty of things that could change the playback speed in iTunes, I don't know of anything that could change the speed of playback on the iPod itself.
Maybe you've had a stroke. Might want to see a doctor about that.

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iTunes 11 does some thinks differently. See:
iTunes 11 for Mac: Set up syncing for iPod, iPhone, or iPad
or
iTunes 11 for Windows: Set up syncing for iPod, iPhone, or iPad
Also
If you have iTunes 11 turn on the Sidebar. Go to iTunes>View and click on Show Sidebar. You can also do a Crtl+S to show the sidebar. The sidebar is where Devices appears. and Control+B to show the Menu bar

I lost all my songs with iTunes mach after changing store

hi,
i have two itunes accounts, one on the french store, my first one, and another on the US one.
i subscribed to itunes match with the french account, and when i went on the us one, i lost all my songs for three months!
i need my two accounts, i live between nyc and paris.
*** happens and how can it be fixed.
thanks
Trikar

That's what happens when you switch stores. You need to stay with one account (at one store) otherwise you lose files that were synced with the other store.

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my computer crashed during winter brake so i lost all my music on itunes, now ive lost all my music on ipod i dont know what to do and i cant live without my music please help me out to get it back.

It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer.
Use your backup copy to put everything back.
If for some reason you have failed to maintain a backup copy ( not good), then you can transfer itunes purchases from an ipod: File>transfer Purchases

TS4124 i am loosing all my songs on itunes and i have itunes match

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Not possible.
If all music was purchased from the iTunes store, you can manually download each song one by one with your iPhone without having to pay for it again.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
You can also enable automatic downloads with your iTunes account on each device for future purchases.
Settings > Store. Under Automatic Downloads, select Music and Books and Apps if you want on each device. With this selected on each device, after purchasing/downloading a song on one device it will be downloaded on the other device automatically.

I lost all my songs in ITunes due to virus. How can I back up what I downloaded onto my IPOD. Already transferred purchases.

I lost all songs in ITunes due to virus. How can I back up from my IPOD what I previously downloaded from CD's . I have already transferred my purchases.

See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
B-rock

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What is going on with my comp? Lost all music on itunes. it says can't locate music. Docked my ipod and it wiped that as well.
Tried to print but nothing. In preferences it knows it's the Epson C64 but it just won't print. When I take it out of Airport and plug directly to iMac, nothing.
Never switched the machine off so how do I get the music back. It was playing yesterday and today, it's gone. No updates were done, the machine has not been touched in anyway
Help

Senti,
In your Music > iTunes folder, is your
music
still in there? Thats where your music should be
by
default. Otherwise, do a search with
Spotlight
for your music and see where it has gone.
As for the printer, make sure you have proper
Intel
compatible drivers.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/printers.html
After following instructions from the above link, I
now get error 50 when trying to add my Epson Stylus
C64
With the loss of my iTunes and now the printer I am
renaming my Intel Core Duo to Mental Core Blimey.
When will the troubles end?
Phoning support in Bangalore see if they can help out
Ok didn't phone support, couldn't bear it so ploughed through. I managed to install driver only if I connected printer directly to iMac.
Then tried to plug it back to the Airport Extreme, no workio. Checked utilities for Airport, nothing in there to include update wireless printing.
Suggestions?
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I do not know whether this is the right category for my problem, but I did not find a suitable one.
I have problems with some songs in iTunes. They do not sound right. It is hard to me to describe my problem in English (thanks to apple's "great" support...I was not able to contact them personally except by phone). The songs "hang", they sound like someone reels (?) it. The problem does not only appear with iTunes but also with my iPod nano first generation.
My godmother brang me CDs where that problems appear (but not the whole CDs have that problem, only a few songs) from the USA - I live in Germany. Maybe that is cause of the error. But I cannot imagine that, because CDs there and here have the same format and I have several CDs from the US where is no problem at all. I am absolutely sure that the CDs are originals and not a copy, by the way.
Maybe you can help me, it would be great!
Thanks,
Jule
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Yes, I thought that's what Restore should do, but the problems remain. Hmmm, the out of order 'album's' songlist is notated 1 of 8, 2 of 8, 3 of 8... I'll try 01, 02...
Probably a good idea.
The other album is running through the list of songs like fast-forward, but not playing the songs. Then, iPod locks up.
Do these same tracks play okay in iTunes? What is the original source for these tracks? Were they downloads from the iTunes Store or imported from outside of iTunes? What format are they encoded in and at what bitrate?
B-rock

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Copied from the OP's post.
I plugged in my iphone to my mom's computer for charging and all my pictures are now on her computer and off my iphone.
The photos imported by her Mom's computer were deleted from the Camera Roll after the import process was completed. If she updates her iPhone's backup now, it will be updated with a blank Camera Roll on the iPhone.
The question was how to get the photos back onto the phone. What I said would have worked.
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This happens to me also. Go to the bottom of your library list. Normally at the end of the list you will find audio files that are not synchronised to the i-pod. In my case it is most often phone messages because the answering machine is linked to the computer. As I have set i-tunes as my preferred audio player it will be used to listen to these messages and they are then stored at the end of the library but never synchronized. You can just delete it there

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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
You have to put the songs back in the iTunes music folder. It is located in My Documents-->My Music-->iTunes-->iTunes Music
Or, in iTunes, go to edit-->preferences. Hit the advanced tab. Check "Keep iTunes Music folder organized"
Click ok.
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Make sure they are on your harddrive and work without the backup Sandisk connected. Check by going to My Documents-->My Music-->iTunes-->iTunes Music
Please post back if you are confused about one part or another so you don't lose your music.
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Ipod not recognised by mac or itunes and won't restore

i think this is a very similar problem to everyone else but i can't find a helpful answer so i'm going to outline my situation to see if anyone can help.
to start with my ipod was ok, then when i plugged it in to load new songs on it my mac and itunes didn't recognise it. this has happened to me a couple of times before so i thought i'd go to restore it and updater didn't recognise it.
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I had the same problem... where the updater software couldn't even recognise the iPod. I took my iPod to my roomates computer who doesn't have the latest iTunes installed and voila it worked fine... so I figured it must be the software.
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Connected Ipod lost all playlists, songs in itunes and on ipod

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