HELP - IPOD NOT READING ITUNES

I have a ton of songs on my ITUNES, yet when i plug my ipod in, it is not updating the songs, it will only take 64 songs. HELP PLEASE!!! i am thinking of getting the new video ipod, but don't want to waste money if this stuff is going to happen. How do i get my songs back on my ipod??

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Make sure everything is updated...
iPod Updater Download Page
iTunes Download Page
Also, try a restore...
Restoring Your iPod
Finally, see if removing the song it stops on helps.
btabz

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Help ipod not showing up in itunes...ive already done everything it says to

so i downloaded some new songs and then started to update my ipod and it said there was an error trying to write to the disk so i thought one of the songs may have been bad so i deleted them and tried to update it again and then my ipod went wompy and showed the folder with the exlmation point so i reset my ipod and it now wont show up in itunes to be able to update it it does show up in windows....i went to the support page and followed all the steps that is for ipod shows up in windowns but not in itunes...but it still wont show up...ive read all the post regarding this topic and none of it seems to help
any suggestions?
any way to find out if its my ipod or my computer?
i am going to hook it to my frinds computer and see if it shows up there but have yet to do so
thanks,
melissa

Hi,
TO check if its your computer see if you have service pack 2 (right click on my computer and go to properties and click on the gneral tab) if not it can be downloaded at microsoft.com. If you have SP2, check it on someone elses computer who has the software installed. If you dont have anyone close to you who has a computer with the software installed check out the apple stores they do basic trouble shooting the store (you have to make a reservation at apple.com/retail, or you can make a walk in appointment). If you dont you can call apple support 1-800-275-2273. If you dont want to call support you can send your ipod in for repair at http://depot.info.apple.com/ipod
Good Luck
HW

Ipod not read by Windows or itunes

I have an older ipod clickwheel. It worked beautifully until 10/15/08 when my computer ("computer A") automatically installed Windows Vista updates. When I connected my ipod to the computer's USB port, I got a nasty whirring sound and it did not appear in Windows or itunes. I toggled hold switch, reset and disconnected. I then connected it to my laptop ("computer B") and it worked perfectly. Now laptop has automatically installed Windows updates (Windows 2003, not Vista) and the ipod is doing same thing on that computer -- endless whirring, frozen up, not recognized by Windows or itunes. When I reset my ipod, it works fine, but I can't update any of my music/podcasts because it won't sync. It's forever stuck on 10/15/08 content. What should I try next? Thanks

erfva,
If you can get the iPod recognized in iTunes, you can always attempt to restore it: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1339
However, if it's not recognized in iTunes you can attempt to format it using Disk Mode, using your Windows OS (just like you would format any drive). Here is a good article on what to do if the iPod is not seen in iTunes: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1373?viewlocale=en_US
Unfortunately beyond that, especially if it's making whirring or clicking sounds, it can be a hardware failure which would require service: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1382
Hope this helps,
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Ipod not on itunes.....help me

ok well i cant sync my music anymore at all nd on my main itunes screen it doesnt even have my ipod anymore i think ive tries everything to fix it someone please help me

Launch iTunes, connect the iPod, and wait for it to freeze up.
When it does, hit Ctrl + Alt + Delete to open your Task Manager.
Click on the Processes tab.
Find iPodService, click on it, and click on End Process.
Click Yes in the confirmation dialog.
Close the Task Manager.
Wait about a minute or so and see if iTunes unfreezes and recognizes your iPod. If it does, click "Restore" on your Summary page to resolve any software issues with the iPod.
If the above does not allow iTunes to unfreeze you may be experiencing a software conflict on your system. Try the steps in this article, restart the PC, and then try iTunes/iPod again.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302538
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Please help - Ipod not recongised by itunes

I recently attempted deleting a couple of songs from my ipid which resulted in losing all 20G of files. Since then my Ipod is not recognised by my PC. I have completed all support reccomendatsions and returned the IPOD which was in tuen returned to me by Apple indicating there was no issue with it. They will not however provide any further support. I am going nmad with it.
The ipod appears in windows as removable media but does not show in Itunes. I have tried it on other machines with no result. Does anyone have any suggetsions???

Don't know exactly what you've tried. Here are some starting places
iPod Not Recognized and Windows Device Manager Is Empty
iPod Service Error Or Windows Recognizes iPod But iTunes Does Not

HELP - iPod not readable

Problem: When I connect iPod to my laptop I get the message 'iPod not readble - The iPod needs to be reformatted for use on your PC. Click on the update button below to run the iPod updater application that will allow you to reformat or restore your iPod'.
When I got this message the first time I clicked on the update button that can up, but it only confirmed that the software on my iPod was up to date. Confused, I decided to do a restore in the hope that that would solve the problem. Unfortunately that didn't help and I've continued to get the 'iPod not readable' message whenever I connect my iPod to my laptop.
When I go into My Computer it no longer recognises iPod and I only get a Removable Disk showing up.
I've downloaded and installed the most up to date versions of iPod updater and iTunes but that hasn't helped. I've tried repairing iTunes, uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes and a whole lot of other things.
I saw on another thread that reformating the disk in iPod has worked for someone else, but that hasn't helped either. I've tried in both disk and normal modes.
I've had iPod in diagnostic mode and it seems that iPod itself is OK.
I'm not sure where to go from here but everytime I connect iPod I get an 'Autoplay' box come up and then a message that 'iPod not readable'. Has anyone got any suggestions that I can try to get iPod working again?
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Dell Inspiron 1150 Laptop Windows XP U2 Special Edition iPod (4G 20GB)

I have dual USB 2.0 ports on my laptop, and have tried them both. I don't have a FireWire port though.
I did try my iPod on my work computer (which doesn't have iTunes on it) mainly in an effort to format the disk in Disk Utility that I was having trouble formatting on my laptop. Interestingly iPod also showed up as a Removable Disk on my work desktop as well. I would have thought that even without iTunes installed it still would have recognised iPod.
I've read on a couple of threads elsewhere that if you're having problems with iPod on a PC that you should try connecting it to a Mac (or vice versa). So I'm going to go and see the (hopefully) friendly people at my local computer store and see if they will let me connect my iPod to a Mac instore. Failing that I'm running out of ideas.
Anything else you can think of?
Dell Inspiron 1150 Laptop Windows XP U2 Special Edition iPod (4G 20GB)

Ipod not reading content

Hey everyone, I have a 160gb iPod classic that has all of a sudden developed problems. About a month ago I was listening to it in bed & it was working fine, the next day I connected it to my 2008 Macbook to transfer a couple of new tracks id just downloaded from iTunes, then when done I hit the 'eject iPod' button in the iTunes sidebar like normal, waited until it the ipod display said it was safe to disconnect form computer then pulled the lead out from computer then out from ipod. Then to my horror my iPod displayed no music under its main menu screen!
When I plugged the ipod back into my Macbook iTunes opens up like normal but a message comes up saying "iTunes cannot read the contents of 'my iPod' & goes on to prompt me to the summary tab in iPod preferences & click restore iPod to factory settings.
I tried resetting it by holding the menu & centre button down & rebooting but this didn't work.
Now whats confusing me is when i click on settings & about this ipod on its menu it says there is 22.7gb used on the storage bar but its under 'other' in the orange colour. So im guessing that my music & videos are obviously still on its hard disk its just not reading & recognizing them?!
Eventually after tralling through web forums & getting nowhere I reluctantly restored the ipod, wiping it and starting again from scratch.
I synched all my music from my macbook which worked fine & the iPod has been working fine for the past few weeks until today when I plugged it into my macbook to create a new playlist & experienced the same problem
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Help & thanks for reading!

So I went to burn my iTunes from my shuffle to cd's
Generally, you can't use iTunes to transfer (or "burn" in this case) files that are currently on an iPod. The only time iTunes can be used for iPod to computer transfer is for songs that were purchased (by you) from the iTunes Store.
This has never happened before.
Are you saying you were able to do this before? Yes, you should be able to burn from your iTunes library to CDs, but not from your shuffle. It's intentionally designed that way.
However, you can use third-party methods and utiltiies to transfer from iPod to computer. If you do a Google search on something like "ipod transfer," you should get some links.
Once the song files are on your computer, add them to your iTunes library. You can then burn the songs to CDs. You can also Restore your shuffle if needed and re-sync the songs.

IPod not opening iTunes

When I connect my iPod to my computer it opens up a folder for the iPod(like a removable disk) and not iTunes. How do I correct this?

With the iPod connected launch iTunes manually
In iTunes left column select your iPod
Tick "Open iTunes when this iPod is connected"

Music on Ipod, Not In Itunes Library!

Hi, PLEASE can somebody help me, I am going crazy with this. I recently got a new Vista machine and had to throw my old machine out, I was silly and didn't back up my itunes. So what I am wanting to do is get all the music off my ipod into my itunes LIBRARY, I can see my music on itunes when i plug my ipod in, but can't get it to sync to my itunes library. Any ideas/suggestions would be soooooooooo greatfully recieved. Thank you soo much.
Windows Vista

To get the music from the ipod back to the computer it would require a 3rd party program and would suggest you did a search through goggle for ( iLounge) This will have your answer/resolution.
(Note: This is not apple software and can not be supported by apple)
To avoid this in the future.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/7.0/en/702win.html

Songs on ipod not in itunes

The music that is on the ipod is the same on the computer. The only thing is the I can play all of the music on the ipod without any problems, but I can play less then half the music on the computer. Itunes keeps asking to locate the music because the original cannot be found. When I plug the ipod into the computer it updates only what the computer can play. It doesn't touch any of the rest of the songs. The computer shows the name of the song that can't be played that way it doesn't get deleted from the ipod. I hope I made sense with all that. The question is if itunes can't find the original songs to play and the ipod has the originals that do play is it possible to fix the problem by copying the music from the ipod back to itunes? If so would you please tell me how to fix this problem?

If you're certain that those songs are no longer on your computer, check out the instructions/suggestions here.
Music from iPod to computer.
There's also another method I've seen posted. I've successfully tested this across several different Windows PCs.
Open iTunes and select edit/preferences/advanced/general. Put a check mark in the box marked "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" and also "keep iTunes music folder organized", then click 'ok'.
Connect the iPod whilst holding down the shift/ctrl keys to prevent any auto sync, and if you see the dialogue window asking if you want to sync to this itunes library, click 'no'.
Then go to file/add folder, open 'my computer', select your iPod and click 'ok'.
The music files should transfer to your iTunes.
However it appears that no playlists or any other info such as ratings/last played etc will transfer.
If this is important to you, you may want to use other options.
There's Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music and playlists etc from iPod back to the computer.

Help, could not read properties after setting the RMISecurityManager.

Hi,
I am new in RMi and I could not read a properties file when run a class in jar file with java -jar option.
I start the the class by as follows.
java -jar darwin_enhanced.jar -Djava.rmi.server.codebase=file:///home/wing/Darwin/Project/release.server/DarwinServer.jar -Djava.security.policy=darwin.server.policy
I extract the following code snipplet from the main class.
/* get security manager */
if (System.getSecurityManager() == null) {
System.setSecurityManager(new RMISecurityManager());
/* get properties */
Properties properties = new Properties();
try
System.out.println("before happy");
properties.load(getClass().
getResourceAsStream("/darwinServer.properties"));
System.out.println("after happy");
}catch (Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
If the System.setSecurityManager(new RMISecurityManager()) is called before the properties.load method, the pgm prints out
'before happy' and dumps
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.Reader.<init>(Reader.java:61)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:80)
at java.util.Properties.load(Properties.java:189)
at com.darwin.server.DarwinServer.startBind(DarwinServer.java:61)
at com.darwin.server.DarwinServer.main(DarwinServer.java:48)
If I reverse the order, call properties.load mehod before setting the RmiSecurityMananger,
/* get properties */
Properties properties = new Properties();
try
System.out.println("before happy");
properties.load(getClass().
getResourceAsStream("/darwinServer.properties"));
System.out.println("after happy");
}catch (Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
/* get security manager */
if (System.getSecurityManager() == null) {
System.setSecurityManager(new RMISecurityManager());
it works fine and print out
'before happy'
'after happy'
Thanks,
Wing

Hi,
Thanks for your ideas.
My primary object is to let the server reads propertiy files. I found that I have to set the RMISecurityManager, otherwise, the rebind will throws
java.rmi.UnmarshalException.
I have changed the testing program according to you inputs.
void startTest(){
System.out.println("CodeSource="+this.getClass().getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource());
System.out.println("Permission="+this.getClass().getProtectionDomain().getPermissions());
if(System.getSecurityManager()==null)
System.setSecurityManager(new RMISecurityManager());
Properties properties = new Properties();
try
System.out.println("CodeSource="+this.getClass().getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource());
System.out.println("Permission="+this.getClass().getProtectionDomain().getPermissions());
properties.load(RMIClassLoader.getClassLoader("file:/").getResourceAsStream("sample.properties"));
System.out.println("size of properties = " + properties.size() );
properties.load(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/sample.properties"));
}catch(Exception e)
e.printStackTrace();
I run in jar with the following command with no exception,
java -Djava.security.policy=java.all.policy -jar simBug.jar
Output
CodeSource=(file:/home/wing/try/java/bug.sim/RMISecurityManager/simBug.jar <no certificates>)
Permission=java.security.Permissions@8d107f (
(java.lang.RuntimePermission exitVM)
(java.io.FilePermission /home/wing/try/java/bug.sim/RMISecurityManager/simBug.jar read)
CodeSource=(file:/home/wing/try/java/bug.sim/RMISecurityManager/simBug.jar <no certificates>)
Permission=java.security.Permissions@8d107f (
(java.lang.RuntimePermission exitVM)
(java.io.FilePermission /home/wing/try/java/bug.sim/RMISecurityManager/simBug.jar read)
size of properties = 1
Thanks,
Wing

Help Ipod Not being read by itunes but computer reads it

Hey I need help I have used my ipod for months about 4 recently i rebooted my pc and now every time i connect my ipod it shows its connected by the computer and It shows me a message sayin that i have to update my ipod which makes no sence because both itunes,update and ipod are up 2 dat Please Help

Start with this article and see if that gets you anywhere...
iPod is not recognized properly by computer when USB drivers are not installed properly or are out of date
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305136
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Basically, both my work and my home computers stopped being able to read the iPod. However, I know it is not a problem with the computers since on the iPod itself, nothing appears under the "artists" menu anymore. Instead, everything, including music and video simply appears in the "videos" directory.
This sounds like a data corruption issue.
Anyway, this happened a month ago, and after consulting everything I could, including this forum, it seemed the only solution was to restore my iPod and loose all of its information.
Well, tonight it just happened again, and once again I had to wipe my memory clean.
Please, please tell me what I can do about this?=. Should I take it in to get serviced? (It's only 3 months old.) I just fear the same thing might happen again regardless.
An iPod with a one-month memory-life is pretty much worthless to me.
Thank you very much for your help!

Thanks for the response.
Well, it seems like the file-structer on the iPod itself keeps getting corrupt. On the iPod, suddenly everything other than one band disappears from the "artists" folder. However, everything appears under the "playlists" folder.
Also, interestingly enough, all my music playlists also appear under the video playlists. Oh and the one band remaining in the correct artists folder also has the playlist for that band in the "movies" folder
I'm a software engineer, even if there's a way to manually change the info files on the iPod, I am more than willing to give it a shot.
Also, I should note that today everything was fine on the way back from work; it only corrupted itself when plugging into the computer (and not even downloading anything!)
And obviously with everything corrupted iTunes cannot read it thus I cannot add anything. The only solution I have found so far is to restore (until it happens again.)
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IPod NOT playing iTunes downloads - HELP!

I thought it was an audiobook I downloaded, but I re-downloaded it tonight and it still didn't work. So I downloaded a song and just like the book, it went swiftly into iTunes and played fine.
When I sync the iPod, the music comes over, but will NOT play. It tries for a few seconds, then moves back to the main menu.
Surfed help and discussions and haven't found this problem.
I have soft/hard reset, deauthorized/authorized, etc...but to no avail.
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Here, this is what you are looking for:
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Help: ipod not recognized by computer(s)

Hi,
my ipod (4G) has had problems: sometimes skipping songs. etc. So I decided to reset it. But the problem: It isn't seen by the PC (Windows XP) at the explorer level (same with iTunes), not by
the disk management, not by the ipod update (which dies with "internal error"). It's only seen at USB level. I installed a new updater, I changed USB, I tried 3 different computers.
Meanwhile the ipod freezes ever computer I connect. So no chkdisk, rstore or whatever is suggested.
What really annoys me: This is the 4th time with the fourth ipod this happens (It was changed 3 times by support - oncenow guarantee is lost). There must be some misconstruction within the ipod in general.
Any ideas ?
Regards,
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Hi,
I've solved the problem. The problems occurs if you disconnect the ipod to often "unsafe". Then some files corrupt on the disc. Solution: restore ! But how, when PC is frozen.
First:
Since nobody can give me help I tried and tried and then I noticed, that not the PC is frozen, but everything around the explorer. It has to do with explorer !
Second:
After a long while, the ipod can be seen as removable disk.
Nothing ccould be done with it (explorer still frozen, no chance to something with other windows-tools).
Third:
I read something about "external" tools for removable usb disks. I installed "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool", which has no "connection" to the explorer. This tool has seen the ipod as removable disk and could format it.
Fourth:
After that the normal restore was possible and everything is fine now.
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