ITunes stalling at determining tracks to sync

I have checked replies, but they all seem pretty ancient.
All I want to do is click “sync” and have it done with in no time ;-)
What do I do wrong?

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Hi everyone, hopefully someone will be able to help me out with this. I've had my iPod 80GB classic for about a year now, (it's out of warranty) and about a month agoit suddenly started playing up. When it's connected to my laptop, iTunes recognises that an iPod is connected but it doesn't add any music to it. It tells me that the sync is complete, but during the sync it tells me that it is determining tracks to sync and then says it's complete, but nothing is added. I have no idea what's wrong with it, i have the latest version of iTunes and am really frustrated with it now! if anyone's encountered this problem and has the solution i'd be really grateful. I'm using windows vista if that information is helpful at all! Thank-you
I've read another thread on this matter and the user suggested doing a check to see if it's the harddrive and these are the results
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Pending Sectors: 0
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I too have the same problem with an iPod classic 80GB on a macbook with iTunes 10 and snow leopard with all the latest updates.
If I leave mine syncing overnight then it will finish, but doesn't actually add the newly downloaded tracks. Otherwise it just continually says Syncing ipod step 2 of 2 determining tracks to sync.
This is in my opinion a catastrophic failure and should be no. 1 priority for apple to fix. I don't listen to music on my mac, I listen on my iPod or iPod dock, so now I have purchased genuine iTunes songs which are of no use to me until I can get them onto my iPod.
I have also tried to restore my iPod which worked fine, so now I have no music on my iPod at all and iTunes still won't sync anything to it.
This seems to be affecting a lot of users as I've seen various other posts with the same issue.
Please apple fix this issue with iTunes urgently.
I also read on a forum somewhere probably this one, that uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes doesn't solve the problem but I don't know if anyone has rolled back to version 9

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Hello there,
And welcome to Apple Discussions.
Because you reformatted your computer, your iPod does not recognize the new library because it was synced with the older library you had before reformatting. In order to get the iPod working again, you will have to [Restore|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1339] the iPod via iTunes. Once you have completed that step, try re-syncing the music and see if that helps.
B-rock

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Welcome to the discussions,
did you make sure that all music is inside your iTunes library by consolidating it?
Open iTunes Preferences:
Mac: Choose iTunes > Preferences.
Windows: Choose Edit > Preferences.
Click Advanced.
Make sure the option to "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" is selected.
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Choose File > Library > Organize Library.
Select the option to "Consolidate files." Note: If you recently updated to iTunes 9, you might want to consider selecting the option to "Upgrade to iTunes Media organization." This updates the file organization of your iTunes Media folder.
Click OK
copied from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751

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HT201253 iTunes keeps freezing up when trying to sync my iPod on my Windows 7 computer. Will not go past "Determining which tracks to sync". Any advice?

iTunes keeps freezing up when trying to sync my iPod on my Windows 7 computer. Will not go past "Determining which tracks to sync". Any advice?

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After reviewing your post, I have located an article that can help with iTunes for Windows. It contains a number of troubleshooting steps and helpful advice for the issue you are experiencing:
iTunes for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8: Fix unexpected quits or launch issues - Apple Support
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
BobbyD

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After going by elimination to isolate if the problem was from (1) iTunes app, (2) my computer or (3) my old iPhone 4G, I figured out what my problem was.
1) First I deleted & reinstalled iTunes on my Windows PC without succes, my playlist did not changed on my iPhone.
2) I tested a successful #sync from the iMac at work.
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my ipod touch accidentally disconnected during sync, after that it wont sync at all. although it appears to be syncing on both the computer and ipod, it rushes through "determining which tracks to sync' step and no changes are actually made.i restarted both and reset the ipod. i checked to see that the computer recognizes the ipod (yes) and tried to sync over wifi with the same result...(i am afraid to retore to factory original beacuse the problem is about transferring from th computer itunes to the ipod)

There is no good way for yur problem since iTunes sees the iPOd. Yu can ry removing and reinstalling all the Apple software using:
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