ITunes deleting and resyncing 200 songs issue

Every time I sync my iPod Touch, iTunes removes approximately 220 of my songs and then "re-syncs" them onto the iPod. This happens without altering my iTunes library at all. And if I look at the sync bar in iTunes it is always the exact same 200+ songs. It makes syncing take much longer than it needs to. Any suggestions?

When you say that it is taking longer, do you mean that its taking like 5, 10 minutes longer to sync, or like a minute longer. Itunes and the ipod will update song info on the ipod like play count info, or any changed playlists. It will not actually change the songs, but you will see it updating the info for the individual songs and playlists on the ipod. If it is actually changing 200+ songs its going to add a significant amount of time, like 5 ten minutes every sync. Which is it?

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Hello turingtest2 and thank you for your reply.
In response to "a possible cause of problems is multiple embedded tags", what exactly does that mean and how can I avoid doing it in the future?
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