I cannot select or play music from Ipod touch

I am unable to select music at all directly from the ipod touch. I can access it thru my car stereo though. What all of a sudden happened?

I am replying to myself...I tried the reboot trick (home key & ON/Off button at the same time) and it did unfreeze !!! I can access my music again. Thanks to the other apple heads for their help!

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When playing music from Ipod in my car, music suddenly stops and message appears to restore in iTunes. After a few minutes, it starts to play again. I hear a click and the apple logo shows on the screen. Any ideas??

When playing music from Ipod in my car, music suddenly stops and message appears to restore in iTunes. After a few minutes, it starts to play again. I hear a click and the apple logo shows on the screen. Any ideas??

You may need to do a Restore in iTunes.
Clicking sounds from an iPod that has a hard drive is probably not a good thing. It is possible that your iPod's hard drive is becoming unreliable.

HT1960 how to recover deleted music from ipod touch

how to recover deleted music from ipod touch?

This is not a complicated problem. And you can easilly solve it. Here is the way about how to recover music from iPod.
1 Connect your iPod to your computer to restore custom ringtones and ringtones saved to the computer.
2 Click the "iPod" button in iTunes, or select your iPod in the sidebar if you enabled the option to show the sidebar.
3 Select the "Tones" tab, check the box for each ringtone you want to transfer to your iPhone, and then click "Sync."
Sometimes a 3 party tool such as Data Recovery may help you in a easy way.

How to transfer music including purchased music from ipod touch to my computer running windows 7

how to transfer music including purchased music from ipod touch to my computer running windows 7

Hi, dphoward525
If you've purchased the music from itunes, when you plug the iPod in to the pc, it'll ask if you want to transfer purchases to the computer. Due to the restriction ,we can only transfer our music from PC to iPod , but not transferring from iPod to PC if you’ve not purchased them .In this case, transferring your files from iPod to computer can be a hassle , I think you will need a practical third-party solution . In order to find out how to transfer music from iPod to computer, you need to seach more information on the internet.

Playing music from ipod in itunes7

okay,
what is the deal with not being able to see my music list when i want to play music from my ipod in itunes7? now that i can't see the list of music i have on my ipod, how in the world am i supposed to delete the stuff off my ipod?
itunes7 *****.

nevermind... i was stupid.... the **** little arrow on the side of the ipod device icon....
thanks.

How to play music from iPod through Windows Media Player

I don't want to insult anyone's intelligence .... but just in case anyone hasn't yet figured it out, here's how to play music from your iPod on a computer that does not have iTunes installed:
On your computer, connect the iPod to iTunes and click on it's name. Then under the general tab, check "allow disk use". Your iPod will then act as a USB hard drive and will then show up as a drive in My Computer. Now all you need to do is to create a Music folder on it and then copy all your music to it!
Your iPod's USB hard drive should show up under My Computer on most Windows computers. Therefore providing the computer has Windows Media Player installed, you will be able to play all your music on it! This saves you having to bother with portable/travel speakers, some of which sound terrible anyway!

UKNightOwl wrote:
... providing the computer has Windows Media Player installed, ...
... This saves you having to bother with portable/travel speakers,
Mains lead for the computer is a bit of a problem on the bus though!

ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO PLAY MUSIC FROM iPod without iTunes

Hey all. I'm gonna post here an alternative way to play songs/videos from your iPod on PCs/notebooks without iTunes installed.
Let's say you're at work and wanna play music from your iPod but your workplace's PC/notebook has no iTunes and installation of any programs are not allowed. Well, what you can do is:
1) Connect your iPod to the PC/notebook
2) Enable viewing of hidden items/folders by going to Folder Options, click on the 'View' tab, next click on the 'Show hidden files and folders' radio button. Click OK.
3) Go to the drive of your iPod, you should see a folder called iPod_Control.
4) Open up the folder, and you'll see a few folders called: Artwork, Device, iTunes, Music and Tones. Open up the 'Music' folder.
5) In the Music folder you'll see a few folders named Fn (where 'n' is a number). Open up any of these folders and you'll find your music files in it.
That's it. 5 easy steps to play music without iTunes. However, when you wanna upload songs to your iPod, please use iTunes. Hope you all found this useful!!
Message was edited by: Sil3ncer

Right. Forgot to mention this part. I'm guessin' you tried this method. And obviously you've seen that the music files have weird file names like FZYA and so on. iTunes automatically changes the file names when you transfer your music to iPod. To know what are the title and artist of the songs are, right click on any blank space of the folder, View -> Details. If Details shows you nothing, click View -> Tiles. Hope that helps you all.
Dang, shoudln't have marked this post as a question..... -_-"

Transferring music from iPod touch to iPhone after iPhone already set up

Help trying to get music and apps and games from iPod touch to new iPhone 5 after I had already set up I phone ???

All of your music and apps should be on your computer.
Sync them to your iphone

Cannot delete music from ipod touch, tried everything suggested thus far.

I have tried several suggestions up to this point and nothing has worked. It is my understanding that everything in My Music, (on my PC) transfers to the iTunes program, either manually or automaticlly. It is also my understanding that if I add or delete music from iTunes, that it will automatically be added or deleted on my iPod Touch, (4th gen). Well, none of this has proven to be true...at best, it is sporatic and frustrating. Any new ideas out there?

blearyeyed13 wrote:
Thanks for the help....I tried your suggestion, but I am still experiencing inconsistent results.
Buy doing what?...
You need to be more specific about what you are trying. "I've tried several suggestions" tells us nothing. You've tried my suggestion (but I made two - dependant upon what you are doing), but you haven't told me how you are managing your iPod, are you using Sync or manually managing? Without that knowledge, everything else is meaningless.
If you are using Sync, and you have selected *Sync only ticked songs and videos,* then un-ticking a song and then performing a Sync will remove the song. So what are you doing?

No sound thru iPhone 3G playing music from iPod section

My wife's iPhone 3G (version 3 software) is experiencing a "no sound" issue in certain circumstances. The phone rings fine (and alerts chime), but there is no longer any sound from the iPhone when she tries to play songs from the iPod section. If she connects headphones or connects to a music dock, the sound plays fine. Further, the volume control slider does not appear at the bottom of the screen while a song is playing thru the iPhone (it does show when headphones are connected).
Also, in Settings, Keyboard Clicks is turned on but no clicks are heard when typing on the keyboard. And no sound is heard when turning off the device.
Any ideas? My same iPhone with version 3.0 installed is not exhibiting these symptoms.

I had the exact same problem the other night. I tried the reset and restore options but found these did not help.
I deleted the applications I had added since i last has sound and i found that bingo the sounds worked again. (i had added shazam and a couple others) I was able to add these back again (withouth paying again for them) after the sound was restored. Maybe if you have this problem again try deleting some apps and see how it goes.

Cannot select or play songs from iphone playlist

just started having an issue of not being able to select songs(all purchased from itunes at one time or another), photo display of artist closes immediately

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Play music from iPod to Mac

Is there a way to use an iPod 5th Gen as an input device on a Mac? I've tried it with a cable on all 5 of my Macs with no luck, the sound pref panel doesn't see it as in input device.
I ask due the recent death of the network drive iTunes lib was on. Yep, backed up but due to some time constraints there's been no opportunity to switch the source in iTunes wait while it updates the library then go in and rebuild everything. When ever I've upgraded iTunes or restored from backup iTunes looses track of everything with 4Tb of media, well you can guess. So I want to play whats on the pod through the mac till I get time to do the iTunes shuffle.
Wordy yes, hope clear.
J.

brianmartinwoolf wrote:
I am trying to move music from my ipod onto my mac. ...
Was this Music purchased in iTunes... If so... see here...
Transfer Purchases
File > Devices > Transfer Purchases
More Info Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848

Apple tv gives me a message "cannot load "when playing music from my computer

When playing music on my apple tv from my computer library, in the last week or two I have received on a frequent basis a message that says "cannot load data". Any ideas what may be causing this ?

No, none that I am aware of.

How do I sync music from ipod touch to computer.

I have 5.5GB of music on my ipod touch that I copied from my own cd's to an old computer that are now on my ipod touch. I want to sync the music from my ipod touch to my computer. itunes lists all the music but a message comes up when I try to listen to it on my computer saying "this song cannot be used because the original file cannot be found.
I have all the music on my ipod touch and it all works and I don't want to lose it if I sync. It says when I sync that all music on my ipod touch will be lost, it will only sync with the music on the computer. HELP.

See Here
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From Here
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