Ipod says no music after synch

My ipod says no music after synch, this has happened before but I don't know how to fix it. Any ideas?

Please dont chuck it out of the window, it might land on some poor elves.
Do the iPod Disk Diagnostic as posted earlier by tt2, it wont fix your problem but help in troubleshooting.

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The Capacity section will report Audio, and Other (which in your case may contain your music) due to filesystem coruuption.
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After switching from Windows to Mac, my iPod says "No Music"

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Hi, hope you can help.. I have tried syncing my ipod classic with my lovely new iMac, and although it all appears to have synced (on computer screen), on my ipod it does say that 80gb have been used up (size of music library), but it comes under 'Other' and not music or podcasts and cannot see the content at all. I have tried this three times now, and made sure all software is updated to no avail.. Hope somebody can help before I chuck my ipod out of the window!!!!

Please dont chuck it out of the window, it might land on some poor elves.
Do the iPod Disk Diagnostic as posted earlier by tt2, it wont fix your problem but help in troubleshooting.

Trouble with ipod recognizing apple id after synching - it keeps telling me to reset my password. I did

Hi! I just synched/updated my ipod touch. Now when I went to use it I received a mesg saying that the Restore was successfully completed and I just need to follow a few steps and I'm done! I follow the steps and it asks me for my apple id and password, I hit next and it asks me for my apple id email then I get a message saying to try another id, this one is being used. If this is my account then I need to reset my password at iforgot.apple.com. I reset my password and it still is not working....What did I do wrong? Please help! It is much appreciated since I am really severely technoloically challenged. THANK YOU!

Hello LeloChick,
It sounds like you are being prompted that your Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons, and even though you have reset the password, it keeps re appearing. If you have done all the steps outlined in the following article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2446
I would next reach out to our iTunes Account Security team with this link:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Take care,
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the laptop is about 6 years old and runs a wobbly windows XP pro on 1,5 GB RAM (transfer speed is 0,5 GB/hr, not really an option) and the main PC runs Vista 64 4GB RAM.
Same version of the same antivirus program, both are set to scan ipod only on demand. Exchange of drive letter did not make any difference.
Neither port change or exchange of cable did make any difference until the latest itunes update everything worked fine (no other updates made around that time).
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Complete format of ipod and "let itunes find ipod to restore" - no change.
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Restore Pod on laptop and move over to main PC - no change.
I'm getting rather frustrated as I simply cannot figure out what is the problem.
The most bugging part is I use mostly audiobooks (audible format) so Songbird is not an option either as very few other programs have aa/aax plugins (which is the only reason I'm using iTunes). Last time I used the pod, I simply wanted to sync the library, no errors, no hiccups, eject and ... no audiobooks, no music, but 111 GB of other.

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Try manually placin the iPod in Recovery Mode and restore via iTunes.
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CAN someone help?? I am pulling my hair out left and right here.
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I started getting the message the other day. I shut
down my computer every day, so yes the computer has
been shut down since the error message started
appearing. The only thing that I can think of that
might have something to do with this is either
iTunes7 being buggy or that I recently changed my log
on name for iTunes because my email address had
changed.
To answer your other question: Yes it is the same
account that iTunes was created on. It is the first
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If you check the properties for the following folders are they read only?
My Documents (usually on the desktop full path is C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\)
My Music (inside My documents)
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- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
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- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try another cable
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I'm not sure the model I have, it just says 8GB. is a little over 2x3 inch in size, green front and chrome on back. I have an older ipod also.
I did a sync after adding music to my itunes library. Neither of them worked after that. I got the older model to work after a Restore operation but the smaller 8GB one will not recoginize music no matter how many times I restore and try different combonations of checked boxes on the summary screen.
computer is osx 10.4. 11 The ipods have been updated and I am suspecting that the ipod update is not compatable with the older osx I have.
I would not mind , if this is the case, going back to previous ipod version.
The music is there when I do the sync, and is there while connected. if I uncheck the "disc access" box before sync then music is grey, if checked then black and I can play music from it before I unplug it from the computer, but when unplugged the ipod says "no music" and Finder sees nothing but the remaining blank memory. When plugged back to computer itunes sees there is something (in orange on the summary screen) but does not see it as music like it did before the eject operation.
I also tried dragging a song from the itunes music library to the ipod. it worked fine while plugged in but after eject same story as above.
I tried dragging from library to the ipod through the Finder also in both the "recordings" folder and the same folder the folders are in...- nothing.
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See this.
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Ipod nano 7th gen problems synching

hello,
for the past 2 days, I have been battling an ipod nano synching issue. This ipod has been working flawlessly for the past year. And then all of the sudden, without warning, I tried to add additional music and I could not. I cannot remember the exact syntax of the error but it had something to do with the ipod not being recognized and required a restore to factory.
I have corrected the first issue where the ipod was not recognized and had to be factory restored. Each time I restored, it would not be recognized by itunes.
I installed itunes on another pc and the same ipod synched and reconnected just fine, pointing back to the itunes install on my primary machine.
I resolved the first issue on my primary machine by following ht1923.
However, now the problem I see is that even though the ipod connects successfully , to my primary machine , when I synch and add music, no music shows up on the ipod even though itunes says synch successful. The ipod says "no music".
ipod serial number: C8NJRFX4F0GV
my primary pc is an HP Elitebook, running windows 7 professional 64 bit version
All itunes software completed removed and reinstalled clean.
Thank you

I would like to chime in that I've confirmed this as a reproducible bug on my iPod Nano 7th generation. I have an iTunes library with an offending compilation, and to avoid any possible tagging incompatability, I've converted the files to AAC with clean tags containing the album, artist, title, and track number. The album artist is "Various Artists" and I've checked off the "Part of a compilation" box for each track in my library.
These tracks all show their correct artists when I sync this library to my iPhone. However, when I sync the exact same tracks to my iPod Nano 7th Gen, it choose a random artist from amongst all the artists within the compilation and shows that artist name on *every* track.
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