IPhone 4 keeps re-syncing same songs

Everytime I sync my iPhone, iTunes keeps pushing the same 20 songs to my phone (out of a collection of over 1300), even though the phone already has them. Any idea as to why this is happening?
It's just a minor annoyance, as iTunes is merely overwriting the tracks already on the phone, and not creating duplicates that are taking up additional space.

My iPhone 4 is doing the same thing, with one particular album I purchased on iTunes. I'm running the latest OS X on my MB and the latest iOS on the phone. It's more of anoyance, but nonetheless, it ain't right.

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I had a similar problem and I finally got rid of it. I had bought a single song from itunes and synced it to my iphone. A few months later I bought the whole cd which included that song from a record store and imported it to itunes. I deleted the previously purchased copy from my library but the next time I synced my phone I had two copies of that song again.
Try deleting the song from your itunes library. The next time you sync your iphone it will say something like "you have purchased content on your iphone that is not in your itunes library, would you like to transfer this content to your library? If you don't transfer it it will be removed from your iphone."
Select not to transfer the content (assuming you have no other new songs you need to transfer) and you should be rid of the extra copy.
I hope this makes sense and helps.

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Make sure you don't have Repeat turned on. While the song is playing, tap the screen (cover art) if necessary to bring up the extended music controls (see image below). Then tap the Repeat button until it turns white (which is off).

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While playing any song on your iPod, tap the artwork to bring up the scrubber bar and additional controls. On the left hand side is a option for repeat. You want to make sure this icon is white (meaning it is set to Off). If it isn't tap it either one or two times to change its current setting.
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By the way, this is the iPod Shuffle forum. Since you have an iPod Touch, you should have posted this in the iPod Touch forum.
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I have a share library on a NAS box, and until now, little problem. But now, iTunes keeps downloading the same songs etc, when I go to another PC, even though the library is shared between the other PC, is the same.
Plus, iTunes repeatably asks for my Password to log in, even though it is correct.
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This is new behaviour. Has not happend like this till today.
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Adriana,
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Often an exchange account is also an IMAP account, and thus the behavior would seem normal for that type of account.
Again the Inbox is on the Server, and not on your Mac. Do not confuse this with selecting to Keep copies for Offline viewing -- those copies are refreshed from the server whenever you sign on.
Neither a .mac nor IMAP account folder will contain a MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded file . However, your POP folder should have such a file or two, to control duplicate downloads of messages remaining on the server -- POP was originally designed to remove upon download, but now that many people use more than one computer, it is logical to sometimes leave messages on the server to be download onto other computers.
In the Finder, open Home/Library/Mail and look for a folder named to begin with POP and including the server and/or email address in the name. If there is not a POP folder, then the account has NOT been set up to be something other than POP. If there is a POP folder, it should contain the MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded.
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A good place to start for help is here, in these discussions and then proceed by explaining the probelm clearly.
Let's start by crossing out anything that isn't relevant:
is Apple going bankrupt again, they seem to not wanna be bothered, is there a way to EMAIL, im not into calling and it says my calls have expired....why cant Apple be a little helpful, im a little upset with them and wanna throw my ipod touch across the room - i dont want 2 of the same songs anymore, i dont wanna be charged twice these bands are making it very difficult to remember the last album i had this stuff on....i dont know my music anymore it keeps changing
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I have a weird problem with iTunes syncing music to the iPhone. I have 5 songs (the first song of one album and the first 4 songs of another album) that are sync'ed, i.e. downloaded to the phone, everytime I plug the phone into the USB port. Furthermore, if the external disk that contains my music is not plugged in, then those 5 songs actually get deleted from my iPhone, although all the other music is left intact on the phone.
This is annoying because I usually don't turn on my external disk that contains my music library, unless I'm making a change to the library or to the contents of the iPhone, which I do maybe once a week. Because of this bug in iTunes, I have to leave the external disk all the time... and then watch it download those 5 songs everytime!
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Thanks for attempting to help, but, no, ALL my music is on the external drive, and, no, iTunes does NOT delete the music from my iPhone or iPods if that disk is off or disconnected... except for the 5 mystery songs. Even if the external disk is off and iTunes can't find the songs, they remain listed in my iTunes library and I do get warnings from iTunes about them not being found, but iTunes doesn't delete them from a "mobile device" that they have already been downloaded to. I imagine that this is intentional behavior for just such situations.
As further evidence of this, the other songs on the SAME ALBUM, which were ripped at the same time, of course, are NOT deleted!
No, the point is that there is something about these 5 songs that is weird. Even if I leave my music library disk online, iTunes syncs, i.e. downloads, those 5 songs EVERYTIME I plug in the iPhone. Actually, I've just seen posts from some others who have this same problem. The songs being deleted from the iPhone when my music library disk is off is just an extension of this problem.
BTW, I've never seen this bug with my iPods, although I haven't been using my iPods much since I got my iPhone :-)!

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