Itunes Deletes My music On my ipod

just bought the 80gb video and i can put music on it but for example when i plug it into my laptop to put videos on it and when i unplug it the music has gone but the videos remain. the music will stay on until i plug it in again. any suggestions. thanks

This Apple knowledge-base article may help address that issue.
Windows confuses iPod with network drive.
Bit of a long shot though.

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I have a 3rd generation iPod touch that I've been using for years. I've been plugging my iPod in to my MacBook Air to listen to music as well as charging it for a while now, nothing has ever gone wrong.
Until one night, I decided to charge my iPod and listen to some old tunes. I listen to ONE song and it stops playing after a couple minutes in. While browsing on my computer, I switch back to iTunes window to see what's up. Next thing I know, exclamation mark starts to appear on every song I click to play.
(Now I understand about syncing, iTunes library, and purchase history...etc) I never have my iPod on in auto syncing, as a matter of fact everything is mostly, almost entirely, in manual mode.
I have my songs on my old computer's iTunes library. Basically, I don't have anything on my Air. But I figured as long as I don't sync my iPod to my Library or delete/change anything, the files will remain in my iPod. Is that wrong? Am I misunderstanding something? Why did iTunes automatically remove my music? If so, why now?
I have the 12th version iTunes, well according to the info I just looked up. Who knows what other lies are hidden. Anyways please help, please....
*The songs are gone on my iPod, but I can see the 'missing files' on my iTunes. Basically, I see my 'old music list', but it's not really there to let me listen to it. Any hope?

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howd I delete synced music on my ipod ?

By unsynching all music in itunes, Then resync the music you want

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Use the manual method of syncing described here:
iTunes 11 for Mac: Set up syncing for iPod, iPhone, or iPad
or
iTunes 11 for Windows: Set up syncing for iPod, iPhone, or iPad

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Have a Look at this Support Article for your Error Code...
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2830
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meerfisch wrote:
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I closed down everything on my laptop and restarted both laptop, iTunes and iPod then plugged my iPod in to sync. My iTunes library on my laptop is fully intact, complete with playlists, and I'm able to play songs normally from there, however despite numerous attempts, they just won't sync onto my iPod. Interestingly, no apps were deleted from my iPod. There's plenty of room on my iPod now, and even when everything on my iTunes library is synced onto it, there's still around 3GB space, so it can't be an issue to do with lack of space. I have no idea why it's happened, and the settings are for everything on iTunes to be synced to my iPod (I checked again) so it's not an issue with selective items to sync only either.
A huge thank-you to anyone who can help me!

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Thomas,
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You’ll have have change the Sync Music settings in iTunes, to delete the music from your iPhone and stop it from being synced back on to it when you connect it to your MacBook, as shown in the article linked below.
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i was wondering how i can use itunes to xfer music while disconnected to the net.
as it is right now (itunes v7.1), i get a message "cannot access itunes store", and will not bring up the usual menus on the left side of the itunes window where i view my music, vids, photos, and playlists.
needless to say, i dont even HAVE and itunes store account. it would be lovely if i could disable itunes store, but hey, i'm sure thats been made impossible.
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for some reason when itunes first installs a new version, it opens up to the iTunes Store. Since you don't have net connection, its going to error out.
But the fact that you can't see any of the other items, I would recommend redownloading iTunes (and Quicktime to be sure) and reinstalling it and see if that helps.
Just for the record, can you click on the Library icon?

Itunes Deletes My music On my ipod

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