Delete songs without warning !!!

I've just bought a new nano and am new to itunes. When i sync new tunes it seems to delete part of (or at times all of) my tunes on my ipod. Why is this and what can I do to stop this happening ?
Help much appreciated.

As you have noted the synch function makes the iPod look like what's on your computer. If you wish to bypass this synchronization you can manage the contents of your iPod manually by selecting that mode in the iPod prefs from iTunes when the iPod is connected. Also note that when you manually manage your music you have to manually eject your iPod before you disconnect it from the computer.
The iTunes+iPod concept is that your complete media library is stored on your computer where it's easy to mantain it, expand it, and keep it secure by backing it up.
I would suggest that you NOT load songs on your iPod and then delete them from your computer without having backups. Doing so is just asking to lose a good portion of your music. Please, please store your music on your computer or some external drive and keep it backed up. Enjoy your new iPod.

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Deleting songs off of iTunes or your computer is a very bad idea unless you have created one or more backup files of all your songs.
Using the iPod as the sole repository of any of your songs is a very risky practice. When (not ‘if’) you need to restore the iPod, return the iPod for service, or it's song files are somehow lost or damaged, you will be re-ripping all your CDs back into iTunes and re-purchasing all your iTMS songs. Restoring the iPod is a common ‘fix’ to many small issues that arise.
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it is critical that you also make multiple backups of your ‘iTunes Library.itl’ file.
iTMS REMINDER: While you can always take the time to re-rip the CDs you own to restore your iTunes music, if you lose your iTMS purchased music and have no backups, you will have to re-purchase them. Few exceptions are made to this rule – at least none that I am aware of.
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I did this with about 100 songs, and the problem is everytime I connect my iphone with itunes, It will automatically sync back every single song I did delete on the phone by swiping.
I did search on google and found out that serveral people has this problem. The songs wont delete from itunes library.
So why do they even make this function if it only deletes the songs for a short time?
Best regards PelleRPG.

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I have a problem. I would like to synchronize my iPod to iTunes but I have some songs on my my iPod that are not present in library (Cd's that I have deleted from my library etc.) I am assuming that if I synchronize the two, then iTunes will delete any songs on the iPod that aren't present in the library. So I ask you, how do I get iTunes to only add songs present in the library and not delete songs on the iPod?
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Here's the bug: You set up TM and specify certain items -- files, folders or volumes -- to be excluded in the "Options" pane of TM Preferences. If you exclude a volume (e.g. a cloned backup volume), that volume must of course be mounted in order for it to be added to the "Exclude" list. But if you subsequently umount the excluded volume, TM SIMPLY REPLACES IT WITH SOME OTHER MOUNTED VOLUME without warning. The result: unknown to you, one of your disks, that you think is being backed up, isn't. You can actually see this happen if you unmount the disk you want to exclude while your exclusions list is open.
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Corrective Action. Note that several of these steps require the computer to process the action and may take 20 minutes to complete, depending on the configuration.
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How can I delete songs from iTunes but keep them on my phone?

I want to delete songs off of my computr because it's taking up unnecessary space, but how can I do this without them being removed from my iPhone when I sync it next?

Foxolini wrote:
I want to delete songs off of my computr because it's taking up unnecessary space, but how can I do this without them being removed from my iPhone when I sync it next?
As given, removing from the library causes the songs to be removed during sync. So the space taken up is neccessary... What would you do if your iPhone where lost, stolen, damaged or needed to be restored?
If you ned more room for storage buy a bigger drive. In fact buy two, one to use as a backup for your library and all your other important files.
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