ITunes shows that I have more music than I actually do
OK, so when I go to check out how many gigs of music I have on my Macbook through iTunes it says I have 834 songs or about 10 gigs of music, but when I click get info on iTunes in Finder it says that I have over 3,000 items that take up 20 gigs. Why does my music take up twice as much space as it should?
I've searched everywhere too for a solution and I finally caved in and restored my phone after backing up all of my photos to iPhoto. It's a pain, but it freed up about 6GB on my phone.
My device:
iPhone 5, 16GB
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I just bought a 2 gb shuffle and I have more music in my itunes than it can hold. How can i sync only the certain playlists on the shuffle?
Yes. Configure your Shuffle to sync only selected playlists from under its Music tab. This article should be able to assist you with this.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1719
B-rock -
I am trying to sync 1900 songs onto my iphone 5 which is 16 gigs. The coloured bar that shoes when syncing my iphone with itunes shows 1.68 free Gigs (with my music included), but when I press sync i receive this: "The iPhone “iPhone” cannot be synced because there is not enough free space to hold all of the items in the iTunes library (additional 4.55 GB required).". Any Advice?
Then I have no idea what to say (you did change names and dates I assume?)
1 idea
Contact iTunes Support -
Itunes says that I have more photos on my Iphone than I actually do, please help
I'm not sure why but the Itunes bar at the bottom is really full for my phone. It says that I have thousands of photos on my phone even though I have cleared all of them off to try to save space.
Please help,
JoeI had this problem, too.
I have fixed it. It cost me 99 cents.
My phone said I had 247 photos/videos. Itunes said I had 1700+. Both said that Photos & Video were taking up 10.8 GB of storage.
On my phone, I went to Settings --> iCloud --> Storage --> Change Storage Plan
I selected the 20GB plan for $0.99 a month
Then, I went to Settings --> iCloud --> Photos
I enabled My Photo Stream (slider to the right/green)
Then, I got on WiFi. I don't know how long it took, certainly not long enough to upload gigabytes of data, but I saw that my Photos & Camera app was using a far more reasonable amount of storage (1.3 GB, rather than 10.8 GB). I checked this by going to
Settings --> General --> Usage --> Manage Storage
Because I don't want the 20GB iCloud plan, I went back to
Settings --> iCloud --> Storage --> Change Storage Plan --> Downgrade Options (at the bottom)
... and I selected the 5 GB Free plan again.
Now for a little rant.
I am very unhappy that I had to give Apple one thin dime to have this fixed. After spending a couple of hours trying to figure out why I can barely use any storage on my phone, I had to pay to fix it. Ridiculous.
I still enjoy using Apple products, but I enjoy using them less and less over time. Not only is every release of iTunes less usable than the previous one, the last one wouldn't even install on my machine. That was about another six hours lost trying to figure out the problem.
I'm not sure if this is a first world problem. Ugh! My life is so hard! -
I plugged in my ipod and a popup on my computer said it needed to scan for issues. I did and now my ipod and itunes says there's no music or anything on it. But when I go to the tab on my computer for my ipod it says my ipod is still full. I don't want to lose my music and I don't know what to do! Help!
In the colored bargraph of storage usage in iTunes, what is listed for the various categories?
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I have more music than 25,000 songs, can I have two accounts under one apple ID?
Is there a way to add more songs or a second account to one apple ID?
Just to be clear, iTunes Store purchases made with the same Apple ID being used for iTunes Match do not count towards the 25,000 song limit.
This may help:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1163599/dealing_with_itunes_matchs_25_000_track_ limit.html -
HT201210 My Music library is showing more songs than I actually have? How do I fix this?
My actual music library on my phone is showing 100+ more songs than I actually have. But on my computer it's showing a completely different (less) number? Should I restore?
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. -
HT4914 I have more music in my cloud than on my itunes library.
How can I get what is in the cloud into my library so that I can put it on my new ipod classic? I bought the classic because I needed more music than I could store on my phone. i subscribed to match but cant do that on the classic itself. Wehn i plug it into my laptop to sync all music it only takes the music from the library not the cloud.
Hi Sarah Day,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
You may find the information in this article helpful with transfering songs from your iPhone to your computer:
iTunes: Transferring media from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1209
Best Regards,
Jeremy -
ITunes thinks iPhone has more music than it really does, and won't sync
I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 7.1, and am running iTunes 11.1.5 on Mavericks.
I was using iTunes Match on the iPhone, but I don't want to do so any more because I have acquired a lot of music that I can't upload to iTunes Match. (This is because my wife has her own iTunes Match account, and Apple won't allow two different iTunes Match accounts to be used simultaneously on the same computer, even under different user accounts. So because my wife uses her iTunes Match account under her user account on the same computer, I cannot activate my own iTunes Match account and upload my additional music.)
So I turned off iTunes Match on the phone. I then went into Settings - General - Usage - Music and deleted all the music on the phone.
The phone now shows as having no music on it at all, both in Settings and in the Music app itself.
I hooked the phone up to iTunes in order to sync a new load of music onto it. Under "Summary", the usage bar shows no music on the phone at all, and a total of 10.99 GB free. This is exactly as expected.
I have ticked "Sync only checked songs and video". In my iTunes library, only ten songs are checked. So I am attempting to put only ten songs onto the phone (for now).
I go over to the "Music" tab of the phone. I check "Sync Music". Suddenly a huge blue bar appears at the bottom, and it now says I'm over capacity by 975.8 MB. And yet at the top of the screen, next to "Sync Music", it also says "10 songs". So it knows I only want to put 10 songs on the phone, and yet it thinks that this is too much for the 10.99 GB free space on the phone.
Heading over to the "On This iPhone" tab of the phone, I see that all of the music that I previously deleted from the phone is showing up here, even though it's no longer on the phone. If I double-click on any of the items, they don't play, and an exclamation mark symbol appears next to them, indicating that the tracks aren't actually present. If I right-click on any of the items, the only options I have are to play them, get info, check the rating, or show in iTunes Store. There's no delete option.
It looks like, as long as I don't try to sync the iPhone, iTunes recognises that there's no music on it, and it's got over 10 GB of free space. But as soon as I try to sync it, iTunes thinks that the old, deleted music is still on it, and that I therefore have no space to put anything more on. So it refuses to sync any music to the phone, even though there's plenty of space for it.
I have tried ejecting the phone, restarting it, and remounting it. I have also tried signing out of my account on the phone and signing back in. It makes no difference. I don't know what else to do.
So I can't sync the iPhone. What's going wrong, and what can I do to make it work?Same problem here. Mine is a iPhone 5s......
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Possible to have more music in iPod than on computer?
So, I'm expecting my new iPod (160 GB) to arrive shortly. It dawned on me that my computer only has an 80 GB hard drive. Now, I don't have that much music at the moment, but I got to wondering if there is any way to have more music/movies on the iPod than on my computer, since the iPod is so much bigger?
And, how would I do that?By setting your iPod to 'Manually manage music and videos', you can add music and videos to your iPod from your computer and delete it off afterwards. By doing this, the media stays on you iPod and doesn't take room in your iTune's library or hard drive.
However, if you need to restore your iPod in the future, you'll need to retrieve that data back onto your iPod as it'll delete everything off your iPod. Be sure to back up all your deleted media and data that you've added on your iPod if you're going to manually manage your music and videos. -
My ipod touch 4g just updates today on itunes and the update caused more trouble than good for me. My ipod will no longer show me the battery percentage in the top right hand corner and I am not allowed to drag other applications to the bottom panel. Also my itunes doesn't allow "enable disk use" anymore. Can anyone help? My ipod now says that it's the 4.3.4 version
- Unjailbroken iPod never showed % battery. Just the icon.
- Unjailbroken iPod Touches never had a disk mode.
- What happens when you try to drag a wiggling app to a empty space in the bottom? Does it move and snap back? -
When my Nano is connected to my computer, it shows that I have music downloaded to it, but when i touch the screen to play the music, it is not showing up and is not available to play. I've tried reloading it with no success
iPod touches or any iDevices from Apple sync only to one computer. If you sync to a different computer, all your music will be replace with the music from the new computer's iTunes. If the music were purchased from iTunes, you can re-download them again otherwise the music on iPod touch will be deleted. Do you have iTunes backup?
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If you have more music on the computer than nano can store...
If you have more music on the computer than nano can store, how does it choose what goes on the iPod? LIke, a normal synching just dumps everything, what happens when the iPod can't hold everything?
Hi Eric,
Your computer will pop up with a message that it failed to update any song to the Nano. You must creat a new playlist and copy the songs there, and make sure the size is not larger than Nano can hold -
Not all of my perviously purchaced songs are showing up on itunes purchaced link on my account. It show that I have already purchaced them in the itune store, but i have no way of downloading them back into my library.
If they aren't showing in the Purchased tab in the iTunes store app (and the Purchased link under Quicklinks on the right-hand side of the iTunes store homepage on your computer's iTunes) for redownloading then have you checked to see if they are hidden : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4919 ?
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I have added many CD to my iTunes music library and then synched them with my iPhone so that I have all music in both places. Then I could the play them in iTunes or iPhone with no problems. Recently, my iTunes "sees" the music library but won't play any of it becuase "the original could not be found". If I attach my iPhone, then it pays them through the iPhone, but still not through the library in iTunes. How can I get the music library on my iPhone to transfer (i.e. restore it) to iTunes? I have iPhone 4S but have not upgraded to the iOS 6, and have not had any problems until last week. Help! Thanks.
Check the manual for whatever backup program you used, or, if you just copied the files over, copy them that.
How to restore data to your PC is outside the scope of these forums.
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