IPod automatically syncs to computer.

I recently restored my iPod, and when I plugged it back in to my computer, it automatically synced to ALL of the music on my iTunes. I want to be able to pick and choose what goes on my iPod, but they song names and artists are all in that faded grey color that you can't click on.
Someone help! It's driving me CRAZY.

Grey text when you look at the content and a lock symbol at the bottom of the screen just indicates that the iPod is set to sync automatically with iTunes. If you want to play the iPod songs through iTunes, delete songs from the iPod, drag songs from iTunes, add playlists to the iPod etc. you need to change the update setting to "manually manage songs and videos". The text will change from grey to black and everything will be directly accessible through iTunes:
Managing content manually on iPod and iPhone
Syncing Music to iPod
Something to remember about using an iPod in manual mode is that the "Do Not Disconnect" message will remain on the display until you physically eject the device: Safely Disconnect IPod

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My iPod automatically synced alot of apps and then i canceled but all the app icons are on my iPod and they
are all waiting. They aren't taking andy byte!

Try syncing the iPod to to computer and then delete the apps. Next would be to restore from backup

Can I put music from iPod Shuffle, synced to computer A, onto iPhone4, synced to computer B?

Can I put music from old iPod Shuffle, synced to computer A, onto new iPhone4, synced to computer B? Both devices and both computers belong to me. Computers are not on same LAN.

You can if the music was puchased with the same AppleID.
Synch the iPod Shuffle with computer B to get it's songs onto that computer. Then resynch the iPhone4 to computer B.

IPod automatically syncs....HELP!!

My computer recently broke and I have all of my 5000 songs from that computer on my iPod. (5th Gen. 80G) Now I would like to update my iPod with songs from my new computer; but when I tried this before my computer crashed, it deleted all of my songs on the iPod and then Synced all of the songs from the new computer to the iPod. I now know how to manually Sync songs but I'm afraid that I will lose all of my 5000 songs. When I hook up my iPod I'm sure it is set to automatically Sync. What do I do...how do I know? Please help ASAP!!

To prevent auto sync, connect the iPod whilst holding down the 'control+shift' keys and do not let them go until your iPod appears in iTunes.
If you see a message that your iPod is associated with a different library and asks if you want to link to new one, make sure you press "Cancel".
If you should click on "Erase and Sync" will erase all the songs currently on your iPod and replace them with the iPod you just connected to.
Then do any of the following to transfer your music from iPod back to the computer/iTunes.
For iTunes version 7 or later, then you can transfer purchased iTunes store music from the iPod to an authorized computer by using the "file/transfer purchases from iPod" menu. Note that the maximum of 5 authorized computers applies here.
Find out how to do that here.
How to copy iTunes purchases from an iPod or iPhone to a computer.
For all other non purchased content (your own CDs etc), check out the instructions/suggestions here.
Music from iPod to computer (using option 2). This a manual method using "hidden folders" and although it works, it is a little more involved than other methods.
Much easier ways are to use one of the many 3rd party programs that copy music from the iPod to the computer.
One of the most recommended is Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music from iPod back to the computer. However, it does not transfer playcounts/ratings etc.
Other free programs are Pod Player, SharePod and Floola and iDump.
If you want to recover just the structure of playlists from the iPod (and not the actual song files themselves), there's iRepo for Windows. which I understand has this feature along with all the standard features for these programs.
iPodRip also has the feature enabling you to reconstruct playlists.
There is also CopyTrans. This does preserve ratings/playcounts etc if those are important to you but this program is not free. It also supports video transfer.
More information is contained here.
Copying content from your iPod to your computer - The Definitive Guide.

Ipod wont sync to computer or itunes

hi, i havea 5g video ipod and a macbook with 10.4.8 mac os on it. i had enabled disk use on my ipod to place notes on it and now my ipod wont appear on my computer at all. this had already happened once and i reinstalled itunes and it fixed the problem. i tried that again and it wont work. i have all my music backed up so im not worried about losing anything, so i would like to restore my ipod. however, looking at the instructions on how to restore the ipod, it says that i have to sync with itunes but i cant do that. anyone know how i can restore my ipod without syncing to my computer? or if anyone has any other ideas on how to fix this problem. thanks!

Any help here?
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iPod appears on the Mac OS X desktop but not in iTunes.

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i cant get my ipod to sync with my itunes on my laptops

Is there an iTunes error?
is your iPod recognized by itunes?

Can't get iPod to sync with computer!

Please can someone help as I'm at my wits end!
Basically I've got a 2nd gen iPod, everything was working fine until a couple of days ago when I connected the iPod to my laptop and it didn't show up in iTunes.
After about 10 minutes I get a message telling me that I need to update my ipod. Only problem being that once I run the iPod updater software it says that it's initializing and then freezes up. It's done this so many times that I have lost count.
I've tried rebooting my ipod and have uninstalled and reinstalled both iTunes and the iPod unpdater software, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
My iPod still works fine and plays all of my music, and has no problems in connecting to my Xbox 360, it just won't sync up with my computer so I can't update the music on it.
Please can someone help me?

Morning dianecarr,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
iPod Troubleshooting Assistants
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/
Best of luck,
Mario

I can not get my iPod to sync the computer recognizes it as a camera can you help

I have synced a lot of iPods to my computer but nothing this new the computer recognizes it as a camera for the Kodak easy share that is on it did I not set something up right to begin with can you help

Here:
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
or
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Device not recognized in iTunes for Mac OS X
It is normal and expcted for a computer to see the iPod as a camera since that is how you get photo off the iPod.

Purchased songs on iPod. Sync with computer, purchased songs are gone from iPod and not on computer.

I recently purchased several songs off of the iTunes app on my iPod touch 4Gen. When I plugged my ipod into my computer a few days later, something must've happened because now the songs don't appear on my iPod or computer, and when I look them up on iTunes it doesn't have the 'play' option it does for other songs I've purchased. I have the reciepts, and I'd really rather not buy my music all over again. Any help please?

What you should have done was review something like the user tip Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device before syncing with a new computer. Depending on your region you may well be able to download your past iTunes purchases from the store, however you have lost the chance to recover other content. Links in the tip.
tt2

Will my iPod automatically sync with my other iDevices?

Now that I have iCloud and and iTunes, iCal and Contacts automatically appear on my iMac and iPad, will they automatically appear on my iPod, too? Will I no longer have to sync the iPod to get new tunes added or to have my calendar updated?

Calendar and contacts would automatically update if you have an iPod Touch running IOS 5 (if it's a classic, as indicated, then no).
In any case, if you want to add songs from iTunes you would still need to sync, but for purchases you can either reload from the cloud or setup automatic download for future ones.

IPod automatically syncing/downloading songs/apps???

My daughters ipod touch is downloading anything that is purchased on itunes... apps/songs/etc.
For example, yesterday I bought one app, downloaded a free app on my iPhone and bought a song and last night she had both apps and the song on her ipod and she was somewhere else just on a random wireless network and it downloaded to her ipod...
Why?
And how do I stop it?

You can set Restrictions on her iPod that will prevent her from using the App store, iTunes and some other things. For more information see:
iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch: Understanding Restrictions
Just note that she can get around that by connecting the iPod to a computer and restoring the iPod to factory defaults/new iPod.

Entire library of music erased off ipod after sync

Ipod touch 5th gen 32 gb running IOS 8.2
For the 4th time since updating to IOS 8.2, whenever i try to add new music to my ipod through itunes, when the ipod syncs with itunes, ALL of my music is erased off the ipod.
Manually manage music and videos is selected. I do not have itunes/ipod automatically sync music. I have "prevent devices from syncing automatically" enabled.
So heres the basic rundown of what happens.
1-upload music to ipod
2-let music copy over
3-upload more music to ipod
4-ipod/itunes begin sync
5-syncing stops without copying music over
6-all music vanishes off ipod after sync "completes"
looking at my ipod music list in itunes, it shows all my music. when you click on them to play them, ! shows up next to ALL songs.
when you look at the music on the ipod itself, nothing is there.
this is what it looks like for the music that has be synced before, that has suddenly disappeared

from my experience, the music is still there. the database is screwed up when itunes recognizes the music, but the ipod doesnt see it.
what ive discovered, after the database crashes and everything is gone, see if you can find this info out. anytime ive had this issue, there are normally a few songs that wont copy over and itunes says "could not convert"(i have itunes setup to convert songs of high bitrate to aac 128kbps). when i go to delete those songs(because they show up on the ipod, but are greyed out), thats when the database crashes, and everything vanishes.
my fix for this issue is this:
unplug ipod from computer and turn off
close itunes
restart ipod
open itunes
plug in ipod
sync ipod with itunes
copy over one or two of failed songs
watch itunes start to sync, sit at "waiting for changes to be applied" for a few minutes
watch all my missing music reappear(over the course of about 10 hours, takes a few minutes to recopy 4000 songs)
annoying and frustrating, but until apple can recognize this issue and put a fix in, this is the best solution i can think of besides throwing my ipod at the wall and fix the solution permanently. but that wont get me very far because of my lifeproof case.

When trying to set up automatic syncing , on my iPod Nano, I get a notice that I am synced to another unknown computer. How do I get unsynced from this other computer ? Have I been hacked ?

When trying to set up automatic syncing , on my iPod Nano, I get a notice that I am synced to another unknown computer. How do I get unsynced from this other computer ? Have I been hacked ?

Well, most of what we can tell you is already stated in the message you are getting. A phone can only sync with one library at a time. You have apparently synced your phone with a different iTunes library in the past, or changes have been made to this library so the phone no longer recognizes it as the library with which it was synced. To know which you will have to provide the information.
If you bought them using the AppleID you use with this phone it may simply be easier to re-download them directly to the phone rather than sync them, though you will want to resolve that issue at some point.
Downloading (using iOS or computer) past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519

When I add a new song to an existing playlist, will it automatically sync to my iPod once connected to my computer?

When I add a song to an existing playlist on iTunes, will it sync to my iPod once connected?
I'd rather not have to remember each specific playlist I add songs too to sync it to my iPod.
I do have automatic sync set up, starting today because I got tired of constantly manually adding music.
ALSO, if I deleted songs in iTunes, will it delete them in my iPod as well once connected to my computer?

PsychedelicWonders wrote:
When I add a new contact to my actual phone, will it sync, back up and make a file for the new contact in outlook?
iPhoneUser guide, page 8:
"Contacts and calendars are synced
both ways between your computer and iPhone. New entries or changes you make
on iPhone are synced to your computer, and vice versa."
So basically, do they keep each other updated automatically?
Yes, your data will be updated every time you sync.
Or do I have to enable something?
iPhone User guide, page 9:
"The Info pane lets you configure the sync settings for your contacts, calendars, email
accounts, and web browser"
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

I lost my itunes after syncing and older iphone to my powermac g4. Originally I had an older ipod nano that I would sync to the g4 and everything was fine. Lost itunes music even though preferences had been set in advance for not automatically syncing.

My itunes library had been fine. I had been using an older ipod nano to sync with my itunes library and had been doing manual syncs, with the preferences in itunes set for not allowing "ipods or iphones" to sync automatically. I found out that apple had a program to replace the battery on this older ipod nano, so I sent it in. It was great, they didn't have an exact replacement and sent me a later ipod nano. However, this ipod nano is so new - I will have to get a newer computer with a later operating system to use it.
So, I thought I'd use my old iphone to listen to my old playlists. I thought the preferences were set for not automatically syncing iphone to itunes.
I've had problems in the past with the syncs with this iphone and my computer because of the USB port (1.1). I'm thinking this was the problem.
The apple store did something to update the software on my iphone when it wasn't working one day. I think that when I tried to sync the iphone to the g4 cube via the old port (1.1) it basically wiped out everything on my itunes. Whatever was my selected playlist for my iphone - that was the only music
that remained on my computer and the iphone. I only had about 20 songs purchased on my library, but alot of music that had been downloaded, I gave away those original cds. I did have a back up on my external drive, but that thing died a few weeks ago from some random power outtages we had this fall.
I'm not looking to purchase retrieval software or have some outside third party to retrieve it for me. It's not that much music lost. I just wanted confirmation that this is what happened: that my old iphone sync is what erased the music.

The old iTunes library was lost with the old PC. However, it all that music and content is still on your iPod there are many ways you can extract this content from the iPod and import it back into iTunes.
Your iPod is designed to sync with only one iTunes library at a time. It will recognize the iTunes library on the new PC as a new library. If you sync the iPod with this new library, all content will be erased from the iPod and replaced with what is in the new library. So what you will want to do is copy everything from the iPod to your new iTunes library on your PC first.
See this older post from another forum member Zevoneer covering the different methods and software available to assist you with the task of copying content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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