Ipod lost all it's tunes!...

I was rocking out to nickelback and then poof...all my tunes on the ipod just disappeared with no warning!.. What caused this, and will restoring the songs back on the pod correct the problem?... The pod isnt that old to be having problems...
G3 Ibook.. 15G & 40G Ipods... G4 PowerMac Mac OS X (10.2.x)

It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer for just such an occasion. Use your backup copy to put everything back.
If for some reason you have failed to backup ( not good), then you can transfer itunes purchases from the ipod: File>Transfer Purchases

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My ipod lost all of my songs

my ipod lost all of the information for all the songs i had on my ipod... the songs are there because it is an 8g 4th generation ipod, but says it only has 4g of memory left... i had plugged it into my computer, but it wasn't registering, so i pulled it out, but after i had pulled it out it said it had registered... when i plugged it back in, my songs and playlists were gone... my memory still says it only has 4g left while if the songs were actually deleted, there would be 8g memory left... i don't want to reload all of my songs to my ipod... is there a way i can get my songs back without having to format my ipod and start over?

The only way to fix it is to restore your iPod to the original settings. Just get it going before you go to bed, and it'll be done in the morning.

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See Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash.
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You could try restoring from the backup of your old ipod:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
Ipod touch is designed to be synced with a compatible program on your computer. If you are not doing this, then you are asking for trouble at some point.

HT201272 my last laptop crashed and i have lost all my i tunes purchased music. How can i get it back?

My laptop crashed and i have lost all my music.
does anyone know how i can can get everything i purchased from I-Tunes back?
Can i re-download all the content?
Thanks

See Here > Download Past Purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

Connected Ipod lost all playlists, songs in itunes and on ipod

I connected my video ipod to my computer, not for the first time, and all my songs and playlists were erased from my ipod and, in my itunes library, I lost all my playlists, recently purchased songs, and recently played folder. Why? How can I retrieve my playlists? How can I prevent this from happening again? Jeannine

Weird.
While there's plenty of things that could change the playback speed in iTunes, I don't know of anything that could change the speed of playback on the iPod itself.
Maybe you've had a stroke. Might want to see a doctor about that.

HT203167 HI All I reacently upgrade my I phone 4 and lost all my I tune collection , any idea how will I recover back . please let me know . thanks

hi all !!!
I recently up grade my I phone 4 and lost lost all my I pod songs cllection , is there any body know how to recover them back let me know please
thank you
sarath de silva.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
You can re-download content purchased from the iTunes store (availability varies depending on location) using the purchased option at the bottom of the screen of the iTunes app (or video app) on your iOS device.

I lost all of my tunes somewhere between updates...

!#%!^^!!($@*! Crap! This bites...
Here's the scenario:
- I have a G5 and a Shuffle (single user on 10.4.2, nothing funky at all - very vanilla setup and well maintained).
- Updated to iTunes 5.01 earlier this week didn't fire up iTunes until tonight
- Prior to opening the new and improved iTunes 5.01 tonight I did the Shuffle update posted today
- Shuffle update went fine, software updated indicated it completed without fault
- Opened iTunes, accepted new license agreement and entered the normal library interface
- Reconnected the Shuffle (took it off the USB cable during reboot from Security Update applied) to receive an error msg. about being unable to locate files... Huh?
- Sure enough, my budding library of ~200 songs was pruned to about 10 or so working songs. No difference if paid for on iTunes, ripped from my CDs, or acquired - the tunes are GONE
- I see the folders for the artist and tracks but no actual file
Contacted Apple support and with a bit of creative guidance from somebody in a land far away realized how quickly everything became my fault...
Mmmkay. So deleting the playlist from the Shuffle last week not only deleted the thirty songs on the Shuffle but also mangled the rest of my library? I think that's a stretch especially noting the Shuffle and the songs contained in the playlist worked fine prior to tonight.
So, now that I've vented briefly over the loss of my music and the frustration of less than stellar support I have to ask if anybody else encountered similar voodoo?
I'd hate to think I run the risk of losing my songs everytime Apple publishes updates for iTunes or iPods.
Sure I can back up right now when my library is small, but how do folks manage this with gigs of tunes? I could hook up my DAT drive but finding an affordable SCSI card for the G5 is proving difficult and I'm not crazy about keeping a stack of DVDs laying around.
Gah! Frustrating.
Any input appreciated. For now I must locate my old SATA drive just pulled from the G5 and see if my iTunes folder backup is on that drive....

Something is definitely amiss here folks. I just plugged in my 120G SATA drive removed from my G5 roughly one month ago. And I encountered the same voodoo.
After extracting the new 250G and inserting the old 120G drive I unfortunately had no success. Lo and behold the same symptom for iTunes, all of the artist and album folders are in there but no actual MP3/AAC files.
I know the 120G drive was intact prior to removal (the 120G files were the copied to my 160G boot drive and then into the new 250G drive running as the iTunes repository) and the files from the 120G and the 160G were playable when the drive was removed (I could browse at will and open the files on the 120G or the 160G).
This reminds me of the days when I was an Apple Certified Tech and System 7 came out. That OS had the voodoo where files would "disappear". Of course as we later learned that was not the case, and the cure was relatively easy. That behavior is akin to what I'm seeing here.
I wonder if I can "revert" to iTunes 4.9 just to see if anything changes (or maybe the OS prior to the last security update if that had any file system revisions in it - need to check that).
For what it's worth I did search the drive(s) to see if the files were simply mis-placed somehow and as anticipated, nothing revealed from the search.
Can I conact the iTunes Store/Support to re-download any of the purchased music I had?
This is not a real confidence builder for getting into the world of iTunes. But, I should of course heed my own words of wisdom - back up early, back up often....

Computer crashed. Lost all my i-tunes. HELP

I had transferred some 1,300 songs from my CDs to iTunes and then loaded them onto my iPod. THEN, my computer crashed and the person who got it running again had totally wiped everything including my entire iTunes library. How can I put the songs on my iPod back into the iTunes library. I don't even dare connect my iPod to the computer for fear of it wiping everything off. I am NOT real savvy on this. I run Windows XP and have the Classic iPod. Thank you to ANYONE who can lead me through this.

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) try this method which works on some Windows PCs.
Enable your iPod for disk use.
See: iPod Disk Use.
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.
If this doesn't work (and it may not because officially it's not supposed to), 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.
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.

HT1535 My PC crashed and lost all my I TUnes library. All that remains is loaded on my I pod classic 80 gb. Is there a way to restore my I Tunes from the I Pod back to the library on my pc?

Owner of I Pod Classic 80 GB with large content preserved on I Pod. Is there is a way to restore I Tunes on PC, i.e. synch my I Pod's content back into I Tunes on PC ( HP Pavilion Windows XP). I have some content preserved by Apple in the "cloud" but majority of music loaded was from my non I Tunes store music, private CD/vinyl library.

You cannot use iTunes to transfer song files from iPod to computer, except for songs purchased from the iTunes Store. However, there are third-party methods and utilities that can transfer from iPod to computer. If you do an Internet search on something like "ipod transfer," you should get some links. (The CNET article seems to be popular.)
Once the songs files are on your computer's drive, you can add them to the current iTunes library and then sync your iPod to that library.

Weird issue: my ipod lost all its music, itunes does not respond to ipod, and itunes itself becomes unresponsive, and then I cannot open itunes again after I forcefully close it

I just don't understand how all these problems roll into one issue. One day my ipod was unresponsive so i reset it and then all the songs disappeared. That happended before, but it became fine after I connected to itunes, but once I connect it to itunes it pops up but itunes is loading for etenrity and does not respond. If I close if forcefully then itunes won't open at all. cursor indicates loading for a second and then stops.
What is this?

When i said reboot, I meant "restarts my Ipod".
I tried installing driver to no success. What could be wrong? My Ipod just doesn't communicate with my computer since the latest Itunes was installed.

Synched Ipod lost all photos and apps.

I synced my ipod to my computer for the first time. I downloaded itunes on my computer. I connected my ipod and was told to download latest software for ipod. After downloading, I got message that download failed. Had to unplug and reconnect ipod to computer. Set up as new connection and new ipod name. All photos and apps are gone. Where did the apps and photos get downloaded to?? How do I get back to original ipod name I had before I unplugged and re-plugged in and gave new name. Apps and photo's no where to be found in Itunes on my computer.

You should have backed up to iCloud and restore backup after the sync or update.
Re-download your apps from App Store>Purchased

HT201269 My hard drive crashed and is unrecoverable. I lost all of the tunes that I had downloaded from my music CD's. Is there a way to use my I Pod Classic to transfer all of the music into the latest version of I Tunes on my PC and then be in sync ag

Trying to find out if I can regain complete sync of my Itunes library and my Ipod Classic.

Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device: Apple Support Communities

Deleted playlist that updates ipod-- lost all music on ipod

like an idiot-- i accidentally deleted the playlist that is used to update the songs on my nano. so now whenever i connect my nano to update it theres a msg that says something like "cannot update ipod, the playlist used to update has been deleted." i still have the songs on my itunes but i cant get them on my ipod.. what do i do?!??!

Create that playlist again.
Or, change your iPod update options to use a
different playlist that still exists.
i tried that and i dont recall the exact name so it didnt work. how do i change my update options?

I lost all my ratings... please help...

Hi, who can save me...?
Because my C hard disk was almost full I moved all my music to my D disk. By doing so I obviously lost all my I tunes music. I re-imported all my music files into i-tunes but lost all my ratings, styles description and playlists in the meanwhile... I still have all of those on my I-pod but that I of course don't dare to plug onto my computer because I m afraid that it will also delete all my ratings and playlists... Yes, I do feel really stupid... Thanks to who ever can save me...
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Did you move the entire 'iTunes' folder or only the 'iTunes Music' folder.
If you moved the 'iTunes Music' folder, your playlists would have shown up, but the songs would have exclamation marks in front of the name.
When your library was empty after moving, I suspect you moved the entire iTunes folder.
If so, put it back at it's original location.
Run iTunes and you could have all your playlists and ratings again.
Then move your music using the instructions in this article:
iTunes: Moving your iTunes Music folder
Additional info about the important library files can be found here:
What are the iTunes library files?
Hope this helps.
M
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