Issue transferring songs iOS 8 & iTunes 12 on Win 8.1
Hello all,
Posting this in the iTunes area as I think it is iTunes having issue and not my iPhone 5. I started having issues recently where my iPhone 5 would stop playing music in shuffle mode, and it got really annoying. After thinking the issue was the iPhone I reset it to factory settings, re-transferred the music over and it got even worse.
After playing with the music app, I realized that the songs were listed as "present" on the iPhone but they would not play. Hense my assumption that it is a transfer issue. I set up the music/video transfers to manual with a downscale to AAC128Kbps.
I'm running Windows 8.1 w/ the latest version of iTunes (12.0.1.26) and my iOS is at 8.1.1. My wife experienced similar issues, syncing from another laptop. All my music is on a NAS, from either ripped CDs in MP3 256Kbps format or native AAC from iTunes purchases.
I'm experiencing this with both ripped CDs and iTunes-purchased AACs.
Any suggestions? I thinking either put the music on a USB external hard drive & sync from there or try on my MacBook pro late 2011.
Thanks in advance,
JP
That seems to help only partially - I eliminated (that is actually removed all dead Feeds from my library. However there still is a significant period, where iTunes is not responding to any Input.
My guts Feeling is - the period has shrunken, however I have no measurements on that.
All in all - Situation is not satisfying, is it?
Peter
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Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
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- 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:
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- 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.
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You said:
No, I do not want to "factory reset" my iPod. No I do not wish to do anything crazy long or hard to fix this.
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A3) lso, if I have a USB hard drive connected to the PC(such as an IPOD or external usb hard drive), sometimes the computer switches boot devices(hard drives) and thinks that the IPOD/External Hard drive is the boot device. This is also reflected in the BIOS and the USB connected hard drive replaces my main SATA hard drive(western digital) and my computer doesn’t completely reboot unless I go under the BIOS and change it. It’s weird because I DO NOT CHANGE THE BIOS. For some reason, it changes on its own.
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My system: ASUS K8V-X, Athlon XP 3200+, 1gb corsair ddr ram, SATA Raid (2 generation) 250 Hard drive
Monday, February 19, 2007 System Error Error code 00000077, parameter1 c0000185, parameter2 c0000185, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 01e8b000.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Disk The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\D.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 System Error Error code 000000f4, parameter1 00000003, parameter2 86528b40, parameter3 86528cb4, parameter4 805c7478.I'm having exactly the same problem. I transfer a folder of songs to my itunes library and i choose to transfer them all and only a few get transfered and then the error message comes up.
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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. -
I mainly just use my iTunes for organizing and adding new songs. Most of the time I listen to my music on my iPhone. I wish it would keep track of how many times I play a song in my music and transfer it to the computer under the 'number of times played' column. It would help out so much! Does anyone know if there is a way for the number of time a song has been played on your iPhone/iPod be transferred to the songs on your iTunes number of plays?
Hi @imobl,
You sound like an Apple support guy who hasn't been able to answer my questions.
To respond to some of the points you made,
- I did not ignore Ocean20's suggestion. If you has read my post, you would have known that I took my phone to the apple service centre where they tried this restore on THEIR machines. I am assuming that Apple guys know how not to block iTunes. So I actually do not understand your point about me trying the hosts file changes on my machine. Do you not believe that apple tested this issue with the correct settings?
- you also give a flawed logic of why the issue is a hardware issue. You mentioned that If I thought that the issue was with the software, i should try a restore and getting it to work. The problem is that my error (23), and many others comes up when the restore fails. And you would be astonished to know that not all errors are hardware errors. Sometimes even software errors prevent restores. Funnily enough Apple itself mention that 'in rare cases, error 23 could be hardware related'.
- all Apple has done so far is replicate the issue. I don not know how anyone can conclude that the issue is a hardware issue.
And by the way, I am not certain that this is a software bug. Again if you read my Posts, you will notice I only want a confirmation,/proof that the issue is hardware related as they mention..
Please refrain do. Responding if there is nothing to add.
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