Itunes syncing same songs

itunes syncs same songs that i already have in my library. can someone please tell me how to stop this?

Me too. Any song or video I recently played on iTunes, syncs when I connect my Touch to my Mac. I already have the songs/videos in the Touch. Why does it sync them again?

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ITunes syncs same songs everyday

As the thread title states, my iPod Classic syncs the same 100 songs once everyday. Nothing has changed with the songs and I haven't played the songs since I put them on the iPod. How can I stop this from happening everyday?
Thanks

Just to clearify, from what I read. He doesn't want to get a different 100 songs the next time. Just that everytime he plugs in his ipod it'll re-sync the same 100 songs. Example: He'll plug it in and it'll sync these 100 songs. Then he'll eject. Then after usage. Re-plug it back in and it'll sync the same exact songs over to the ipod and he'll have to wait again for the songs to be transfered over. It's an endless loop of having to wait for the same exact songs to be transfered/sync'ed over to the ipod. He wants to know how to stop the ipod from re-syncing the songs over to the ipod when it's already on the ipod.
Please let me know if I'm correct.
I don't know the problem but I have had this happen to me a couple times. But after the second sync it wouldn't do it again. But hopefully someone has a fix.

Can iTunes sync multiple songs with the same name?

My iTunes library has multiple songs with the same name (but they point to different files on the filesystem).
Curiously when iTunes syncs to my iPhone it will only ever sync two of the files, even if more exists. I suspect what is happening is described below, but I have no way of verifying it:
Let's assume I have 5 songs named IdenticalName, on the filesystem these are named IdenticalName.mp3, IdenticalName 1.mp3, IdenticalName 2.mp3, and so on.
I suspect iTunes is syncing the filename without a number postfix, and the file with the "1" postfix and not continuing with the rest of the files.
Has anyone seen similar behaviour? Did you find a workaround (other than renaming your tracks)?

can you manually discover the new instances on the new server?
Then just make sure the name that appears in Grid Control is different.
e.g. prod.world is on server A and B. When you discover in Grid control, you can make it prod_B and you will see the latter without any problem.

ITunes copying same songs and apps every sync

Every single time I sync my iPhone 4s (iOS 6) to iTunes 11 (OS 10.6.8) it copies the same songs and apps to my iTunes. Like right now it says "Syncing Danielle's iPhone (Step 5 of 5)" and right below that "Copying 8 of 10: MC3" (which stands for the app, Modern Combat 3). No more than 5 minutes ago I was syncing my iPhone and it was copying that app (it takes forever too because it's a big file). All I changed was adding some calendar events on my macbook in iCal then I wanted to sync it again real quick and it's copying all of these files again that it just did.
One of the problems could be that I have it removed from my iPhone but it's still checkmarked in iTunes? I can't see how that would be practical though. I would think that if I deleted a song on my iPhone, or deleted an app, that when it connected to iTunes next it would make a note that I don't want it on my phone anymore. Anyone know the source of the issue?

Some other program is interfering with itunes saving its database file.
iTunes Library.itl
This is really common for Sony Vaio users running Vista. Either disable the Vaio's music service program (VCFw.exe), or uninstall it, as Evert Yntema chose to do.
See this post
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8545376&#8545376
And for folks who don't have a Vaio, the next biggest culprit is security or backup software scanning the itunes folders. You need to configure
Norton/Symantec
McAfee
Kaspersky
ESET NOD
IObits
Windows Live OneCare
Carbonit
Mozy
or whatever software you've got installed to ignore the itunes folder or specifically, that ITL file.
If you're getting tons of TMP files, something is interfering with itunes saving the ITL file. A workaround is to same that ITL file to a different folder or USB drive just before you close itunes.

ITunes always syncs same songs and sometimes deletes them from iPhone!

I have a weird problem with iTunes syncing music to the iPhone. I have 5 songs (the first song of one album and the first 4 songs of another album) that are sync'ed, i.e. downloaded to the phone, everytime I plug the phone into the USB port. Furthermore, if the external disk that contains my music is not plugged in, then those 5 songs actually get deleted from my iPhone, although all the other music is left intact on the phone.
This is annoying because I usually don't turn on my external disk that contains my music library, unless I'm making a change to the library or to the contents of the iPhone, which I do maybe once a week. Because of this bug in iTunes, I have to leave the external disk all the time... and then watch it download those 5 songs everytime!
FYI... I am syncing a subset of my music library to the iPhone, using a playlist called "David's iPhone" to hold the music I want on the iPhone. I have "Only sync checked items" UNselected and I don't have any songs in my library checked.
Anybody else having this problem or know of a fix?

Hi Nathan,
Thanks for attempting to help, but, no, ALL my music is on the external drive, and, no, iTunes does NOT delete the music from my iPhone or iPods if that disk is off or disconnected... except for the 5 mystery songs. Even if the external disk is off and iTunes can't find the songs, they remain listed in my iTunes library and I do get warnings from iTunes about them not being found, but iTunes doesn't delete them from a "mobile device" that they have already been downloaded to. I imagine that this is intentional behavior for just such situations.
As further evidence of this, the other songs on the SAME ALBUM, which were ripped at the same time, of course, are NOT deleted!
No, the point is that there is something about these 5 songs that is weird. Even if I leave my music library disk online, iTunes syncs, i.e. downloads, those 5 songs EVERYTIME I plug in the iPhone. Actually, I've just seen posts from some others who have this same problem. The songs being deleted from the iPhone when my music library disk is off is just an extension of this problem.
BTW, I've never seen this bug with my iPods, although I haven't been using my iPods much since I got my iPhone :-)!

ITunes syncs every song everytime

instead of just syncing new songs and newly played songs, my iTunes will delete all the songs from iPhone and re sync the ones in the playlists and any new ones and then choose a random selection of songs to sync also. It's not handy when all I want to do is sync a couple new songs and then have to wait while another 1500 I already had on my phone be synced!
Is there any solution as its really irritating that such a massive company like Apple have such ridiculous issues.

I've been struggling with this same problem for months. I haven't solved it but one thing I've learned along the way is that if the song is appearing as grey letters instead of black that means its only partially downloaded to the phone. If you go in and redownload it on your phone it should be selectable/uncheckable, etc. The problem I'm running into now is after I download, then delete said songs they just show up again.

ITunes DJ same songs twice in following

It has to be a known problem and there has to be a simple solution:
How can I prevent iTunes DJ from playing a second time the same song right after the first time?
There has to be a way to prevent the same Song being played twice a day!
Please somebody tell me how.

really? it happens to me all the time. I was asking me, if that could still be accidentally. (500 Titels should not be a large list, but it isn't a short one)
Thank you for your hint. I thought about your idea, but it has 2 Problems:
1. I have to generate a new list for every list I want to use with DJ.
2. The Problem isn't solved completly, because the last-played-date is updated after the next song was picked and that could then be right the song which was played the moment before.
It's annoying me since I got the first Version of iTunes and please don't tell me, I'm the only one who has a Problem with that!

Can't take songs off puter without itunes taking same songs off ipodnano :(

I can't keep all of my music on my puter due to space. I put CDs on my puter then onto ipod then remove CDs from puter but then when I connect, and itunes syncs, it removed previously installed CDs. I am new to ITUNES so how can I install songs onto ipod and just leave them on the ipod regardless of whats on my computer when I connect and itunes syncs?
Thank you for your time and help.

You can do this if you turn off automatic synchronization. Connect your iPod and go to the iPod Options and select the "Manually manage" option. It will then not automatically remove the items from the iPod if you delete them from iTunes. You'll have to drag songs and videos from your library or playlist to iPod in the Source list to add new tracks.
Note that it's not a good idea to depend solely on your iPod to have your only copy of items that you've purchased from the iTunes Store or that would otherwise be difficult to replace. I strongly recommend that you make a backup copy of such material (on CD, DVD, or an external hard drive) before you delete it from iTunes.

ITunes plus loop. Upgrade song, download song, iTunes finds same song...

I seem to be stuck in an endless iTunes plus upgrade loop. iTunes Plus finds a song to upgrade I pay the $.30 I download the song. When I visit iTunes it finds the same song. To try and get out of the loop I buy the same song again. When I try to download it, it gives me an error message. I go to my account and hit the problem button. I receive and e-mail saying problem has been fixed. I go back to iTunes Plus and the same song is there, I buy it again (even though I've already bought it and successfully downloaded it), the loop begins again. I actually have 2 accounts and it's doing this on both of them. The second was created when I couldn't remember my user name. Different account, different song, same loop. I think there should be a lot of new stuff available to upgrade but I'm stuck in this loop and so I'm afraid I'll never see it.
Apple support gives me 3 or 4 answers to non-related questions and the only input I am asked for is to rate how well thayve answered my question. Well they haven't and I don't want to waste (even more) time on something that is not going to address this issue.
Is anyone else experiencing a loop like this?

I've visited the online support and was presented with a few itunes problems none of which are even close to my issue. I chose one and received an e-mail requesting screenshots of the problem. I sent in the screen shots and received another e-mail stating this is a technical issue and not a billing issue and given a phone number to call. I've called the phone number and was told by the tech support that this was not a hardware issue, that they could recommend I reinstall iTunes and authorize and de-authorize my computer.
While I was on the phone with tech support I visited iTunes and noticed the offending iTunes plus upgrade had disappeared as well as the additional songs recommended to me as being available to upgrade. I searched out the album and was told that I had already purchased this and was I sure I wanted to purchase it again? Actually I had purchased the DRM version and wanted to upgrade to the non-DRM version but this was not an option available to me. I chose not to purchase it again. As I told the tech support guy, if I'm going to purchase an item twice then I'm going to purchase it elsewhere so that I can get a better quality file ie FLAC WAV or at least 320 kbps. Unfortunately I've already spent a bunch of money repurchasing items that I'd purchased at iTunes before realizing that they would not play on other software on my computer...
I de-authorized and reauthorized both accounts, no difference. I'm going to try reinstalling iTunes and if that doesn't work I'm just going to give up on it. This is way too much trouble to replace a 128 kbps file with a 256 kbps file. I would have to say that I love Apple they make some great products but as is the case with most companies nowadays their customer support is sorely lacking. I'm exiting the infinite loop and going to continue purchasing my music online from other companies that do a better job and offer a better product...

Myriad iTunes sync issues - song cutoffs - artwork problems - yeech!

Hi all,
I’m running the latest version of iTunes on a (late 2013) Macbook Pro Retina laptop, and having several different flavors of syncing issues with my two devices – a 16 gb iPhone 4S running iOS 7.1, and a 32 gb iPod Touch 3rd Gen running iOS 5.1.1.
As best I can tell, some syncing issues such as one of the ones I am experiencing (songs chopped-off when transferred and attempted to playback from the device) have existed in some way, shape or form for nearly 10 years now, so I’m not expecting any grand revelations here - but just looking for some honest advice on how to resolve in the shortest amount of time & with the least pain considering I have a fairly large music library in terms of syncing time required. That being said, below bulleted-out are my current issues / frustrations / thoughts on where the problems may lie.   I would appreciate any advice:
Purchased iTunes songs (ripped MP3’s from CD’s that I own and tracks from other sources do not seem to have the problem…) play fine in iTunes on my laptop, but when transferred to either my iPhone or iPod, they will randomly (it’s not every track) be cutoff near the end of the song. Sometimes the song will stop with 2 minutes remaining and go silent. Sometimes it will stop with 15 seconds remaining and go silent. Sometimes it will stop somewhere in that time range and start the next track on the album while still displaying the info from the previous track. The only solution I have found to this for purchased content thus far is to wipe everything out, and go back and download the tracks from the cloud. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 tracks that fall into this category, so my options to download directly to the device an artist at a time are kind of time-consuming and cumbersome. Would this have something to do with the file format of purchased tracks vs. ripped ones? I have a lot of older ripped material that was imported as MP3’s or MP3’s converted to M4A’s that never seems to have this problem. The newer purchased files are mostly ACC’s which DO have the problem.   Also would this have anything to do with the fact that my library (including most of the purchased content) was recently moved over and imported to a new Macbook from a Windows backup? Most of my iTunes library was Windows / PC for the majority of its existence for the past decade or so; we only recently switched back to Mac.
Discrepancies between deleting material on a device vs. what iTunes recognizes when it is plugged back in: The other day, being frustrated with the random song chopping, I deleted everything on my iPod Touch 3rd Gen by going into Settings, Options, General, and “Usage” and then “Edit” and selecting to wipe out everything in iTunes. The device appeared to do this, and I was showing 28 gb or so free out of 32 once it completed. Great, right? I proceeded the rest of that day to painstakingly download approx. 900 tracks from the cloud onto the device, hoping to correct the chopping issue. It did this, and I still had roughly 10 gb free. Great, right? Later that night when I plugged the iPod into my Macbook with the 30 pin to sync, iTunes on the laptop for some reason still recognized the songs which I thought I had deleted hours earlier and showed me multiple copies of everything. For the ones that had been deleted, when I clicked to play them on the iPod through iTunes, I got the little gray exclamation point - ! – in a circle like when a track has moved libraries and cannot be found. iTunes then told me my sync could not be completed due to being over capacity on the device by a ridiculous 12 gb or something like that. Huh?? I could have gone through and manually deleted the (by that point more than 1000) duplicate tracks and synced to have made room I suppose – but after accidentally hitting Autofill – iTunes threw up its hands and would not let me do anything further. Any attempts at that point to delete either pending Autofill tracks or missing duplicate tracks just led to endless spinning on the “Preparing Update” notice on the device which led to me having to kill iTunes. Can you say big-time frustration? I eventually opted to restore the iPod to factory (iOS 5.1.1) settings and start over. That device is currently at home slogging through the process of attempting to re-download 400 some songs from the cloud over wi-fi so that I can avoid the cutoff track problem. The plan after that is to sync playlists for certain artists over top of the purchased tracks so that my ripped tracks can merge with them to round out the playlist. Do you see how this is beginning to become a marathon?
Last but not least - it seems to be just since the last few iTunes upgrades for Mac, but I’m having a huge problem suddenly with album artwork staying synced properly. After one recent manual transfer session (30 pin between the iPhone and the Macbook) roughly half of the tracks I transferred had mismatched artwork. Doing this through the cloud (downloading tracks “Not on this iPhone” via the iTunes app) doesn’t seem to have the same problem, but of course this takes longer. Also, what is the deal with “Show All Music” in iOS 7 and playing tracks from the cloud? This is a really cool feature that allows you to save a ton of disk space on your device, but I have found that when I do this that many tracks have mismatched artwork. For example right now I’m listening to a Grateful Dead song that is displaying Genesis artwork. Huh?? Artwork is less of a big deal than the track lengths being chopped off, but it’s still annoying.
iTunes revolutionized the music industry and on the whole has been fantastic. But it seems as if lately, little irritating problems like the syncing issues are becoming more and not less prevalent, and the problem is they aren't being dealt with. I got my first Mac in college nearly 20 years ago now, and have been generally entrhalled with Apple products ever since. But I have to say that this kind of junk lately is more what I would expect in the vein of problems from the shoddy-PC world that seem to linger and never get fixed. Cupertino folks - what's the deal???

You're not the only one judging by the forums!
Likewise I have been using Apples since the Apple IIe(!) and have found them great in every respect. iTunes however over the past couple of years has deteriorated to th point of being unuseable. Apple has made iTunes the hub of your digital life and so it really has to work seemlessly.
I currently have had to completely wipe and re-install my 64Gb iPhone 4s several times to get my music back on to it. I cannot het any playlists to sync which is really annoying and it generally undermines my faith in Apples software quality.
Please put whatever resources are necessary to fix this soon Apple or you will certainly start to haemorrhage customers to other platforms. After all if iTunes remains broken then what's the point of paying the extra for Apple qulaity? You may as well uplaod ebverything to Google play and be done with it!

IPhone 4 keeps re-syncing same songs

Everytime I sync my iPhone, iTunes keeps pushing the same 20 songs to my phone (out of a collection of over 1300), even though the phone already has them. Any idea as to why this is happening?
It's just a minor annoyance, as iTunes is merely overwriting the tracks already on the phone, and not creating duplicates that are taking up additional space.

My iPhone 4 is doing the same thing, with one particular album I purchased on iTunes. I'm running the latest OS X on my MB and the latest iOS on the phone. It's more of anoyance, but nonetheless, it ain't right.

Ipod re-syncs same songs everytime

My itunes somehow got damaged and rebuild itself a few weeks ago. When it finished I had to reset some things with the way itunes displays and plays my music. Also somehow it duplicated a couple of my playlists. I deleted the duplicated playlists and reset all the diplays back. Now it works fine.
The first time I synced my 160g classic is seemed to sync fine. The second time it came up with notice that it couldn't sync to the ipod and I had to reload the software and reset the ipod. I did this and it reloaded my 16,000+ music library. (I have the latest itunes and ipod software)
Now everytime I sync the ipod it reloads the same 60 songs everytime! These songs play fine in itunes and on the ipod. Anybody have a suggestion on how to stop these songs from reloading to the ipod everytime it syncs?

Update- I found that if I go in and change something in the song info (genre) then the songs reload once and then stop the constant reloading. So I guess something about the info on these songs got wacky when my itunes library rebuild.
Thanks
Don

Itunes syncing unticked songs to iphone

Hi,
I've just updated to itunes 11.1 and my iphone 4S to ios 7. I've unticked a load of songs and albums in my itunes, but the unticked songs still appear on my iphone.
In the Summary tab I have "Sync only ticked songs and videos," and in the music tab I have "selected playlists, artists and genres" and "Automatically fill free space with songs" ticked.
Can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong?

Hi sawpaw,
One of the new features of iOS 7 is the ability to show all of your purchases in your Music Library.
Click on the link below to see page 62 of the iPhone User Guide for iOS 7
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
You can change the Settings > iTunes & App Store to turn this feature off for Music
Cheers,
- Judy

Itunes sync = 2x songs

Recently my songs purchased from the itunes store were stored on my iphone via icloud where I could only play the songs when connected to the internet via wifi or 3g. So I "downloaded" the songs (permanently?) via wifi. When I next connected my phone to my laptop and "synced" their became 2 copies of the songs on my phone. Can anybody please tell me how to get rid of the copies?

thomasdangit wrote:
How can I sync ALL my songs to my 16 GB iPad, but sync only my CHECKED songs to my 8 GB iPhone?
I don't want to create new users or separate libraries or whatnot.
Leave EVERYTHING checked, create playlists for each device and sync only those playlists to each device.

I purchased two songs on my iphone and it did sync with itunes. Then i put the two new songs in a music folder and it won't sync the songs to the folder on my iphone. same phone same computer never had this problem before.

i purchased two songs on my iphone and it did sync with itunes. Then i put the two new songs in a music folder and it won't sync the songs to the folder on my iphone. same phone same computer never had this problem before.

In iTunes, try signing out of your Apple ID & then back in: click on iTunes Store on the left sidebar of iTunes, click on your Apple ID on the top right, sign out, sign back in. Then try to sync your purchased music to your phone again.

Itunes syncing same songs

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