ITunes sees iPod but no songs

In iTunes, my iPod shows up with the correct name, but no files show up. When disconnected from my PC, all of my files show up and play just fine. Help! Thanks.

The songs that you had on your original computer are saved on that computer, and your iPod. You cannot drag songs off of an iPod and place them into a new library.
You can, however, use your iPod as an external hard drive, and use it to transfer files to a new computer:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
CG

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Hi there!
I've updated itunes, updated and reset the ipod twice. Problem is that when I plug in the ipod, itunes will come up and it sees my ipod, but it won't show any of the content. If I drag songs from my library into my ipod icon, it will make like they're copying over, but when the ipod is disconnected i find that the songs haven't transferred.
In short: itunes opens, recognizes my ipod by name, but wont' show the content, and won't allow new content to move to the ipod.
It has worked before -- in fact, I have 10 gigs of mp3's on the ipod. I just can't get any more on (it's a new 30 gig ipod).
I appreciate any help you might give!
Thanks!

I'm having the same problem! Any solutions?

Itunes sees IPOD but I cannot get a drive letter to use as a hard drive.

I set disk use enabled but every time I unplug and replug the IPOD back in the check box is unchecked.
What system does windows/IPOD use to mount the IPOD and get a drive letter? I am using a customized version of XP and I want to make sure I did not delete a particular system in XP.

I don't think you'd be able to shut off the Logical Disk Manager service, which is what Windows uses to assign drives letters to mounted volumes. It is possible that it's not loading correctly or automatically, however.
Open up My Computer without the iPod connected and write down all the drive letters you see (for Hard Disk Drives, Devices with Removable Storage, and Network drives, if applicable). Then connect the iPod and double check just to verify there aren't any new drives present. Now right click My Computer and click Manage. In the Computer Management window, click on disk management on the left side. In the upper portion on the right side, look to see if there is a volume that matches your iPod in capacity (will be off by a couple of gigs, likely) but that doesn't have a drive letter. Right click that volume, and hit "Change Drive Letters and Paths" and then attempt to add a drive letter to the device, taking care to note that you are using a drive letter that is not on your list you wrote down earlier. It's usually best to leave some room between the iPod and the last used drive letter... for example, if you have A, C, D, E, and F drives, assign the iPod letter M. Then check to see if the M drive is showing up in My Computer, and right click it and eject it if it is. Then restart the computer.
These steps are a modified version of the steps found here...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499
The article has screen shots that may be helpful so check it out.

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Ok. So I recently got this new ipod video, 30gb, and nothing but problems since I got it.
I had to restore it completely and I had some problems putting it back to life. Ive finally done it, and now when I connect it to the computer, all the songs are updating, but when I want to listen to the music, nothing shows. Zero songs. But it says Ive used 5 gb or so.
Ive reset the thing before this happened, reinstalled the whole cd (ipod and itunes), put it into disk mode and formatted the removable disk. I dont get where all those songs are. They should be somewhere on the ipod but i cant see anything.
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I did it again. Restored and now I dunno what to do.
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You have to enter the album information manually in iTunes to get it to show up in your iPod. The only way album info shows up automatically is if you purchase the album from the iTunes store.
Click on the song in iTunes so it's highlighted in blue and hold down the Command - i keys on your Mac keyboard. This will bring up a dialogue box with tabs for Summary, Info, Video, Sorting, Options, Lyrics, and Artwork. Click on the Info tab and you'll see a group of input fields for song title, artist name, album name, etc. After you fill in the info click OK. (You can only enter info for one song at a time).The updated info should now show up in iTunes. Good luck!

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Please help....
I bought a brand new iPod shuffle yesterday from future shop. I brought it home and plugged it into my computer and set it up with the iTunes on my computer....
on iTunes the iPod shows up, and synced...shows that my songs are on there. I charged it for at least 6 hrs. I went to listen to it this morning...and I gots nothing no music no nothing. the light blinks red twice and that's all I got. please help :(

Copy the music from Nano to computer by:
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device: Apple Support Communities
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I had this same problem and just got off the phone with Apple Support. She told me that I'm out of luck, I should have backed all my files up. Music, photos, whatever. gone. She explained to me its like a mini computer and these things happen. It doesn't matter what generation of ipod you have. So now I have to start from the beginning and will now archive all files. I know this is not the news you wanted to hear but maybe you can sleep tonight!

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i had backed up iTunes to external hard drive since i had to do a clean install on my computer. My os is windows vista.
I installed iTunes on my computer.
Then i copied the iTunes folder on the external hard drive to the music folder on my clean computer.
these are the steps i followed: iTunes: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive
i followed these steps for
Restoring your iTunes Library backup
When you need to restore your backed up iTunes Library from your external hard drive to your computer, follow these steps:
Quit iTunes.
Locate your external hard drive.
Windows: In My Computer
Drag the iTunes folder (backed up earlier) from your external hard drive to whatever location you desire on your internal hard drive. It is recommended that you choose the default location for the iTunes folder, which is:
Windows Vista: \Users\username\My Music\
Open iTunes while holding down the Option key (Mac) or Shift key (Windows).
In the resulting dialog, click the Choose Library button.
Select the iTunes folder you just moved to the internal hard drive.
Click Choose (Mac OS X) or Open (Windows) and then choose the iTunes Library file inside .
After following these steps, iTunes will open and your iTunes Library will be restored.
to get my iTunes library in iTunes.
Well, my library IS there with playlists. But no songs will play.
Obviously i've missed a step or done something incorrectly.
please help.

Are the songs displayed with exclamation marks? The exclamation mark for missing files is shown if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout, or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place. Changing the path to the media folder won't fix the links to files you've moved by hand.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then say no when asked to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions. I can provide a step by step guide if you give me the two paths.
In some cases iTunes may be able to repair itself if you go through the same steps and locate the lost track. It may then offer to attempt to automatically fix other broken links. Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes. I would suggest you untick Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Keep iTunes Media folder organized before you start so that things don't have to move around as they are repaired.
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Device manager sees ipod but ipod update doesn't

Hello, sorry to be a nuisance.
Hello,
Sorry, this has probably been dealt with before, but I can't see a solution so I thought I had better check.
I have a 4th generation 40gb ipod which I originally configured on my Mum's PC. I recently bought my own PC (moved out, hurrah!) and now am trying to install my iPod on my new PC (Windows XP).
However, whenever I plug it in, iPod updater refuses to accept that it is plugged into the machine, but it does appear in my PC's device manager.
Whenever I try to open it through device manager it just says that the drivers aren't installed correctly. Is there any way to get the drivers installed without using iPod updater?
I still have the iTunes CD that came with the ipod if that helps.
I've tried downloading updates for iTunes and updater but to no avail, put the iPod in disk mode, reinstalled the CD etc etc.
Cheers!
Chris

OK first thing you need to do is with it connected look to see if its listed in iTUnes, then see if its listed under "My Computer". sometimes it will show up as "IPOD" other times it just shows up as "Removable Disk".
If it shows up in "My Computer" and not iTunes this artical may be of some help http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93716
PS anytime you uninstall iTUnes and quicktime, you will disable any antivirus/security programs before reinstaling iTUnes

ITunes sees iPod...but songs do not show up in library

Long story short...I gave my son my old iPod mini. When we couldn't connect both it and my new video iPod to our new computer, we took it to his grandmother's house to use. I've downloaded all of the iPod/iTunes updates, and when the iPod mini is connected, it shows up in iTunes and you can listen to the songs...but it wont let us make any changes. The songs do not show up in the "library". We can't burn any songs to disks, we can't move anything around in the playlists....HELP!!!!!!! We've already de-authorized our old computer...so why wont this darn thing work???

The songs that you had on your original computer are saved on that computer, and your iPod. You cannot drag songs off of an iPod and place them into a new library.
You can, however, use your iPod as an external hard drive, and use it to transfer files to a new computer:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
CG

My iTunes syncs with my iPod but the songs do not show up on my iPod after.

I'm not really sure how to go about fixing it either, as iTunes says that the songs have all synced with my iPod.
Any suggestions?
D:

I do not have a solution but I am having the same problem.
If anyone could help, please do.

Windows sees iPod but iTunes doesn't ALSO Windows cannot locate driver

Got my Nano (2d gen) a few days ago and have been stumped since I can't use it. Here's a few details. I'm running Windows 2000 with SP4. In trying to sync I have used both my laptop's USB 1.1 port but also a USB 2.0 card with and without additional power (which can sometimes cause problems). I have tried the 5 R's to no avail.
Here's what's happened so far. Initially when I connected the Nano Windows would look for the appropriate driver. After a minute or so, the computer would lock up and reboot. This happened 5 or 7 times. Very frustrating.
I then tried the 5 R's and started doing some research on my own. I think part of the problem might have been due to Windriver, which I believe controls USB drivers. I messed around with that and eventually got to the point where when I plugged in the Nano, Windows would search for the correct iPod driver. After a minute or so, a window would pop up reporting that Windows couldn't find the driver and did I want to disable this device or ignore the update.
Hey, at least the computer wasn't rebooting.
The strange this is that if I click on the System Tray, under the Unplug/Eject Hardware icon it shows that there is an iPod connected and the Nano will charge. And yet, iTunes doesn't report being connected.
I have searched and searched this forum and the web but to no avail. Are there smarter minds out there that can help me with this problem?
IBM T20 Windows 2000 Nano 2d gen with iTunes 7.02

I went through the steps in the document a day or so ago but it didn't help. I will try one more time, paying close attention to the details.
On a different note, just after I posted my question I attached my Nano and let it look for the appropriate driver. However, this time I pointed it to the WINNT\Systems32\drivers directory and my computer locked up and rebooted.
So I'm thinking there's an underlying problem and I'm just don't want to think about doing a re-install or re-format of my HDD.
There is one thing I can report. I was able to sync on my office computer so the problem's not the Nano.
Will let you know if anything changes. Thanks for the quick response.

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Hi,
Can anyone help with this problem. ITunes shows that all songs are being automatically updated and comes up with the message that it is all complete. Then we check the ipod and there are no songs on there.
Thanks
Ed

Do you have a network drive?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93499

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