Ipod only displays songs in playlists..Help!

Help - my Ipod nano only displays songs as playlists - in other words I cannot view songs as album, song, genre etc.....how on earth do you solve this??? Thanks!

Try putting the iPod into disk mode. I know that you said a reset was unsuccessful, but just try.
-hold menu + select buttons for 10 - 15 seconds
-when you see the apple logo fade away and come back on the screen IMMEDIATELY switch to holding the select and play/pause button
If you get the checkmark with OK to disconnect, that is a plus. Plug it into your computer and it should switch to "Do Not Disconnect - Disk Mode" At that point it should be recognized by your itunes and you should be able to transfer your purchased items off of it.
If not - iPod will need repaired.

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Ipod only lists songs, no artists, will not mount or appear in itunes

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Id say a number of things it could be:
USB CABLE (try a different cable)
USB PORT (try a different port)
DRIVER (make sure the ipod drivers are installed0
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and see if it shows up then.

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I am a new user of iPod Mini.
I have some music in my music library in iTunes and I have created a few playlists. Some songs are in multiple playlists. When I copy over these playlists, will these music files get copied over twice or only once?
I am worried that this will eat up space on my iPod and hence I am wondering whether to remove all dups in my playlists.
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SS

Welcome to the Apple Discussions, Suryanarayana!
Can someone confirm if this is true?
Confirmed.
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first question is is there a setting i can choose
(either in iTunes or the iPod nano itself) to make
the on-screen iPod nano text appear larger than the
default?
No.
however, most
of my songs require a program called NJStar
Communicator (www.njstar.com) to display the chinese
characters -
I think NJStar uses an encoding which is not compatible with iTunes or iPod. You need to convert the ID3 tags of the songs that require NJStar to display correctly to Unicode. I have heard that ConvertZ is a program that might help do this.

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I make a new playlist for each artist or album)
Why? iTunes already does this.
Go to Music -> Artist and it will show all albums by that artist.
Or go to Music -> Albums and it will show all albums.
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All songs in Genre Rock and Added in last two weeks.
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1) Uncheck the songs you don't want to sync. Set the option on the iPod to only sync checked items. Problem: You can't play songs in iTunes that aren't checked.
2) Create a playlist with all the songs except the few you don't want. Sync that playlist instead of the whole library.
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