Disconnecting and losing all songs??

ive reset my ipod a total of 4 times now becuase that is what itunes tells me to do. when i disconnect it from my computer after loading back all of my songs it takes a long time to disconnect. When i went to play my ipod there were no songs or videos on it and when i plug it back in it says to restore it. anyway of fixing this myselfor do i have to get a new one?

This might help.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301895

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I bought mew iphone 5c i want to copy songs from my laptop but its all in mp3 format and i installed itunes in my laptop and synced all songs are sit in my iphone.but my doubt is iphone support only itunes na.then how mp3songs played????

i bought mew iphone 5c i want to copy songs from my laptop but its all in mp3 format and i installed itunes in my laptop and synced all songs are sit in my iphone.but my doubt is iphone support only itunes na.then how mp3songs played????

Hello there,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
If you would like to sync music to your iPhone, you will need to use iTunes on your computer, and then follow the directions in the article linked to below.
Sync your iPhone, iPad and iPod with iTunes using USB - Apple Support
Cheers,
Alex H.

How do I get my 6th generation Ipod to shuffle AND REPEAT all songs in a playlist?

How do I get my 6th generation Ipod to shuffle AND REPEAT all songs in a playlist (continual playing)?

You could get a cable such as this one.
http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=1526&sku=35502
It has the dock connector on one end fro connection to the iPod and then two connectors on the other end, one for connecting to the firewire charger you use and the other to connect to the usb port on your computer to sync the iPod. You can sync and charge at the same time.
Alternatively, you could explore the possibility of installing a high speed card to your computer such as this one.
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I'm not saying that is the one you need (I know nothing at all about your particular computer), I'm just using this as an example of what I mean.

I recently had to reinstall the factory settings on my laptop and lost all songs in itunes but they'e on my phone. how do i get them back on my phone its so frustrating.

Previously I could drag and drop my songs from desktop to folder, I had to get iTunes 10.4 could that be the cause of my frustrating attempts to get my songs back to iTunes library?
i am also unable to see previously dowmloaded application in itunes. If i select manage songs manually would that require syncing of the two and therefore losing the songs on my phone?

http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/index.php?gclid=CNyMyIvbtqoCFcE42godv DJR7g
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Yesturday I ended up buying new music on iTunes on my PC. I wasn't able to download the music to my iPhone 5 unless I updated to the newest version, which I did. Then not all songs would download to my phone and once I looked closely, I noticed that I had songs missing on my phone and the artwork or name of the songs was incorrect. Any idea how to fix this?
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I actually found a right way to fix it. Just uncheck all the songs and sync your iPhone. Then check all the ones you want again and re-sync. The artwork should fix itself.

Just upgraded to 2.2.1 and not all songs play

On my iPod Touch, I just finally upgraded the software from 1.x to 2.2.1. Now, only a few songs will play. Others appear to play but there's no sound. Odd thing is, it's like my last 3 or 4 purchases that play (some songs and one album--going back about a month) but older purchases do not play (only have purchased music, no imported CDs on the iPod).
Has anyone else experienced this? I'm not really sure what to do. Am going to synch it to remove all songs then re-synch them back on, but didn't know if there was a better solution.
It seems like I'm reading that 2.2.1 is a little buggy, I'm wondering if I will run into other problems as well.

I would simply restart the touch and, if that didn't do it, a reset.
Restart: Hold the Sleep/Wake button down until you see the red slider and turn the touch off. To restart it, hold the Sleep/Wake button until you see the Apple logo and then let go.
Reset: Hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button down together for about 10 seconds. When you see the Apple logo again, let go.
FYI - 2.2.1 was a minor update to fix a few little things. It is only buggy in some people's hands. Most of us have experienced no problems.

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I got a new computer (with windows vista)and when I connected my ipod and re-downloaded itunes and downloaded a few songs an information window popped up ans said an itunes library already exists if you sync these songs (the new few I downloaded)all other library will be deleted from your ipod. I don't want that I have almost 400 songs in there. Is there a way to transfer my old itunes library to my new computer? Please help. Could you please reply to my email address [email protected] thank you so much.

Connect your iPod to your computer. When you get the message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod. Your iPod should appear in the iTunes source list from where you can change the update setting to manual and use your iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. Also when using most of the utilities listed below your iPod needs to be enabled for disc use, changing to manual update will do this by default. Check the "manually manage music and videos" box in Summary then press the Apply button: Managing content manually on iPod
Once you are safely connected there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod. If you have any iTunes Music Store purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod to a computer
The transfer of content from other sources such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, this is just a small selection of what's available, they are generally quite straightforward. You can read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
TuneJack Windows Only
iPod2PC Windows Only
iGadget Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
iRepo Mac and Windows
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac and Windows
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac and Windows
There is also a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows or a Mac. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod
Whichever of these retrieval methods you choose, keep your iPod in manual mode until you have reloaded your iTunes and you are happy with your playlists etc then it will be safe to return it auto-sync. I would also advise that you get yourself an external hard drive and back your stuff up, relying on an iPod as your sole backup is not a good idea and external drives are comparatively inexpensive these days, you can get loads of storage for a reasonable outlay.

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For the second time in the past week, when I opened MAIL, i received a message stating that outbox would be renamed. When I get into mail, all of the accounts are GONE. I re-entered them the first time, but wonder if there is a fix so this doesn't happen again??

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Hi Benjamin -
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
You may have better luck in the iTunes for Windows area, but in the Mac version, in the file menu, there is an option for "Add to Library" If you chose the music folder on your external hard drive, it would find all of the files located there and add them to your music library. You could continue to do this each time you copy music to that folder without having duplicate entries in the library.
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Huge number of duplicate files in iTunes music library, every song twice! Can I just uplug my external hard drive and clear all songs, then resync?

iTunes seems to have a duplicate listing of every song that is on my removeable external USB hard drive. Is there an easy way to remove these? Every song is listed twice, but one of the listings gives an error when you try to access it.
I haven't tried this yet, but can I just unplug the HD, then delete all of those songs, then plug it back in and let iTunes "find" them again?

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The screen is grey with a flashing square in the middle of which is a question mark. Nothing answers what can I do. I have disconnected and turned all if . But when I restarting the same flashing square with question mark turns up after the music and on a

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"Try Disk Utility
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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