Ipod Music Problem

Why does my music on my ipod disappear after its already been placed onto it?

Reset the iPod touch by holding down the Home and Hold button until the Apple logo appears (ignore the slide to off option). Wait for the iPod to start up and see if it happens again. If it does, then do a restore of the iOS software. The restore option is in iTunes when the iPod is plugged in. Restoring basically reinstalling the operating system on the iPod.

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IPod Music Problems with the Latest Version

So I am happily using my iPod and iTunes 7 software with my Win2000 notebook and everything was working great.
Then I get a notice that there was a new version of iTunes (7.1) and do I want to download. So I download and then install the new version. All seemed well.
The next day, I go to work outside and I plug in my iPod to go to work and instantly notice, all my music is gone from it. And I think to myself, well that was really nice of the software upgrade to erase all my music off the iPod... some upgrade.
I open iTunes and see that it still sees all my music on the computer. Then I hook up the iPod and open the little icon to see what's on the iPod and all music seems to be shown there but it's all grayed out.
If I use the iPod menu to look for music, there is nothing shown on the iPod... no music, no playlists, nothing.
I did a restore using iTunes which seemed to erase the iPod and then a sync. During this process, I could see all the music being copied back to the iPod. Later, when it was done, I took the iPod outside with me to work and all my music was present and played fine.
Later I came back in and hooked the iPod up for a re-charge. My wife was about travel so I handed the iPod to her. Later I found out from her that there was no music on the iPod... she was not pleased.
So I look and sure enough, there is a later iTunes software update (7.1.1). I figure, there was a bug in the software and they have quickly recognized it and fixed it. So I download and install this version.
Same problem. No music on the iPod.
What's going on here? Do I have to go back to version 7 to get a functioning iPod again?
Thanks!
Mike Truly

I'm having a similar problem since the update, but iTunes seems to be a bit more selective for me. Even though it is shown under audiobooks under the iPod on the taskbar to the left of iTunes, the latest audiobook I purchased from the store--Wintersmith--is not showing up on my actual iPod. I've tried restoring my iPod, etc., and it simply won't show up. So far, all of the help topics I've looked at have really kinda failed to answer this problem with a specific solution; they all seem to follow the "try resetting it and see what happens" script. Is no one concerned about what specifically is happening, why it happens, and how to make the iPod function properly without having to reset it every time a glitch comes along?
Any insight appreciated.

Fixed my iPod music problem

After many hours and lots of reading on this support community, I've finally got my music back. It was a matter of copying all the music into the iPod library on the new computer from my external hard drive. But it's taken a number of hours to re-create the Playlists, erase duplicates and generally tidy up. But I've done it.......yipee

If you restored to factory settings/new iPod and still have the problem that indicates a hardware problem.
Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store..
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

IPod Music Problem... Help

I recently made a playlist for my songs. But when I touch any songs it will play the reverse one not the one I touched. Say I have 60 song and I touched song 43, when I do it will play song 42. What is going on? It rarely happens and it worked like a charm last time I tried. How can I fix this? I already tried rebooting it but it didn't work so please help me

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
If still problem, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store since it appears you have a hardware problem.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Ios 7 ipod music problem

I've updated my iPod touch to ios 7.0.4 today and now it won't let me play any music. It just skips through without as much as a note. How do I persuade it to play again. Why did I bother 'upgrading' to this awful os when the old one worked so well. Resetting does not seem to work.

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

IPOD music problems - wrong songs, titles

From my daughter
Ipod says the wrong song names and titles and artists on a lot of songs. Any ideas?

HI,my sons IPOD is not displaying artwork or displaying wrong artwork

[iPod 5G] Problems with Windows' iTunes keeping it synced.

I've been struggling to get my iPod 5G working on my windows computer. This is what happens EVERY time:
- I connect my iPod, it gives me "Cannot read the content of the iPod XXX...."
- I Restore my iPod (have also formatted it completely several times).
- the iPod shows up in iTunes and it syncs.
- I take the iPod out and i reconnect and it starts all over again and i get: "Cannot read the content of the iPod..."
Connecting the iPod to my MacBook will make it appear in iTunes and I'll be able to see the music and update it.
Things i've tried (in semi-random order, except for the last one):
- Updated the iPod (1.2.1)
- Restored the iPod about 10x
- Different USB port and different iPod connection cable
- Erased the iPod (3x): using Windows' format tool 1x and the Disk Utility in OS X 2x.
- Uninstalled iTunes, Reinstalled.
- Fresh install of Windows XP.
Could this be an iPod related problem? (it seems to work fine on my Mac)
Could this be an iTunes 7 related problem?
The iPod is brand-new, i got it after my old one had gotten a white screen that wouldn't go away. Could it be a faulty iPod they gave me?
P.S. Please don't suggest to 'just sync it with your mac' because it should work with the Windows computer that holds all my music.
Windows XP Pro

hi chris
the difference is:
at home i've started it and it has been running 12 hrs without touching it
outside i've used it while running through the park five times, so i started and stopped it five times without touching it otherwise (didn't change songs)
do these five times starting/stopping waste 8,5 hrs battery runtime?
PB G4 1.5 GHz 1.5 GB Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Ipod music greyed out?

I'm trying to add songs to my wife's ipod. (It looks like a nano, how do I tell which generation?)
A while back we swapped computers. But we'd synced and updated this laptop and ipod with no problem (same music on all.)
Now I've added new songs to the laptop itunes. The songs are mp4, not copy protected, and play fine on the laptop.
I connected the ipod and hit sync. Then when I open itunes>her ipod>music, all titles are greyed out, and the new artist or songs are not added (either there or when I eject the ipod & check it's own screen.)
thanks

Hello anotherjones,
This article should help you identify which iPod model your wife owns.
[Identifying iPod models|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1353]
As to the songs being greyed out, this is because the iPod is tied to another iTunes library on a seperate computer. The only way the songs wouldn't be grayed out and you could add songs to it from a second computer is if you are manually managing the music on your iPod. You can check to see if this option is enabled under the Summary tab for the iPod in iTunes.
Here are two helpful articles on manually managing music and syncing an iPod to multiple computers.
[Managing content manually on iPod and iPhone|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535]
[Using iPod with multiple computers|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1202]
Otherwise, in order to sync it to this new library, you will have to restore the iPod via iTunes and start over from scratch with it.
Hope this helps.
B-rock

5g Ipod. Problem with Firmware 1.2.1

Like many out there, I upgraded my iTunes software to ver. 7 and subsequently the iPod firmware to ver. 1.2.1. This resulted in the iPod "freezing" problem many others have reported. I've gone through the exercise (twice) of uninstalling iTunes 7, installing the version of iTunes on my installation disk (I believe it's earlier than 6.0.5) and then installing firmware provided in Updater 2006-6-28 (1.1.2). Problem is that iTunes doesn't recognize anything in my music or video library and the only way (so far) to solve this is to upgrade back to Itunes 7.0.2 but not to upgrade to firmware 1.2.1. My iPod now works but when I sync to iTunes, many of the videos (TV shows) I've purchased won't transfer to my iPod. The reason given is that my iPod software is too old. This has also occured with any new video purchase.
Has anyone experienced something similar and is there a solution to this problem.
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I am having this problem as well. It was irritating me so bad that i just reverted to 1.0 since i don't have any other version availible because itunes doesn't save the updates. I tried all of the 5"R"s and it still locked up as soon as i booted my iPod up.

ITunes mousewheel bug - Can't scroll in Prefs iPod Music

The scroll ball functionality of the Apple Mighty Mouse doesn't seem to work on the list of playlists in iTunes>Preferences...>iPod>Music>Automatically update selected playlists only. Can anyone else confirm this? If this is a reproducible issue, how can I bring it to the attention of the iTunes development team?
I have a fairly long list of playlists, and not having the scroll functionality work there means manually clicking through it...

I am having this same problem. Did you ever resolve the issue and how? I feel really goofy not being able to figure this thing out. Crazy.

Cover Flow with Ipod Music?

Hi
This is something i never understood since the introduction of itunes 7.x and it's coverflow feature. Why isn't it available for the ipod music library?
All my music is stored on the ipod (and additionally as backup on a firewire drive that i rarely use), because i don't want to waste 60gb of my macbook-pro drive with mp3's...
So why isn't there any coverflow-feature for the ipod library? Or does anyone know a trick to enable it? Any suggestions?
Thanks

I have the exact same problem. I guess we're a minority enough that Apple doesn't care about those with large iPods and laptops (so no syncing).
The problem is that with iTunes 7, it was changed to accomdate CoverFlow. Previously, all album art added was automatically embedded into the file.
However, CoverFlow deals with loading lots of images, so iTunes 7 stores the album art in a folder - instead of embedding - in your iTunes directory as a "cache" so that it can easily and quickly retreive the images when you view CoverFlow (as opposed to having to reload every time).
You can't use CoverFlow for iPod music because iTunes doesn't have the image data stored somewhere consistent, and so would have to reload the album art everytime you reconnect your iPod and use CoverFlow, and then keep this image data stored on your computer even if that iPod is never again connected. This could be a strain on your resources, and so I guess Apple decided to play it simple and allow you to only use CoverFlow for music it knows that it has a cache for and that it knows still exists.
The best way around it is if you can store all your mp3s on an external drive, then when you add them to your library you'll be able to use CoverFlow.
Other then that, Apple's message seems to be "get a desktop" or "get a nano."

Unable to search Ipod music in Itunes 11.

I just installed Itunes 11. I have a 1st gen ipod. The "Search" box doesn't bring up any results when I highlight Ipod Music.
Anyone else having this problem?

your ipod preferences are probably set to automatic.
you would be unable to delete selelctions directly from ipod list if it was seet to automatic.

I just updated my phone and now my phone is acting up. Now while playing my ipod music the sound fades in and out how can i get this to stop and play whole song?

ok so last night i finally decided to do the upgrade on my phone... well i guess BIG mistake.... now my phone is tripping.... my apps arent working right.... had to delete fb several times..... my photos wouldnt load back up....and my ipod music wouldnt upload for @ least 2 hours.... really krazy... well im frustrated cause i really wanted to listen to my music and when i was trying to do so my sound kept going in and out..... all by its self.... how in the world can i fix this problem?????? HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!!! Oh and i have tried resetting my phone several times with no such luck.....
Also side note my phone is really really slowwwwwwwww now!!
thanx again

But I do back up everything, as much as I am able...
However, it seems to me I've got to shift everything back into iTunes - Again.
if this is the norm, I would like to see - for others because now I know! - a little warning
"Hi, We're iTunes, and you need an update. So please update, just let it be known however, then when you do - we'll delete your catalog and any playlists. Thanks for using iTunes"
something like that, because now I've gotta re-load everything back... bolics I say bolics.

Need help with my iPod music library

I made a back-up of my iPod music library by enabling disk use and copying the music folder from the iPod_Control folder. I recently had to restore (some minor problems when I installed iTunes 7 and updated my iPod), and I moved the songs from the backup music folder to my iPod. All of the files transfered, but my iPod doesn't show the new library. I'm assuming that I have to refresh the library, maybe by deleting the old library file somehow. Any advice? I had songs on my iPod that I no longer have acceess to due to my laptop dying, so simply resynching to my current iTunes library won't help, and I'd rather not look through all the crazy folders in my backup to find my missing tracks. Thanks!
iPod w/video Windows XP

The iPod usually won't view the songs properly unless iTunes puts them on there.
But, you have that folder, which is a good thing.
I would have iTunes update your iPod with those songs.
In iTunes, go to File-->Add folder to library. Add the iPod_Control folder to the library.
iTunes will import all of those songs into your iTunes library with the correct names and everything. Then you can update your iPod with iTunes and get all your music on there and recognized. Do not delete or move the folder once you add it to iTunes, as iTunes may be reading the music from it, and moving it may not allow you to play songs in your iTunes library.
I would restore your iPod before you put the music on there though, as the music you manually added to the iPod may be taking up space and iTunes won't be able to fill that space with music.
btabz

Is it at all possible to move ipod music from a mac to a pc?

...without a CD burner on the mac?
Here's the problem...
My son wants to burn a CD of some of his ipod music. We had originally intalled the ipod on a mac. However, the mac disk is full, and we haven't been able to install an external cd burner.
We have several pcs with cd burners, so I thought I could move the music over to the pc using the ipod. It did create a "shared" library, but you can't do anything with that but listen to it. I reformatted the ipod to pc format, but can't put the music back on the ipod.
I should be able to reformat the ipod back to mac, then reload the songs on there, but unless I can free up enough space to load the cd burner software, I'm kind of out of luck?

"is it at all possible to move ipod music from a mac to a pc?"
Windows can't read the HFS+ file system that a Mac uses.
If you need to use a Mac (HFS+) formatted iPod on a Windows PC, you'll need to install some 3rd party software such as XPlay 2.0 (which you can get from MediaFour Software). This will enable your Windows PC to read a Mac-formatted iPod.

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