ITunes syncs songs already on the ipod

When I connect my ipod and wait for it to upload some new songs, say for example like 5 songs, it ends up syncing songs i already have on my ipod. I noticed that all the songs syncing to my ipod are songs that have been played in my itunes library. Can anyone please tell me how to stop this?

Yes. You should not delete the music from your computer. Sync means make the iPod match the library. An iPod is to easily lost, stolen, damaged, or corrupted to be relied upon as the only location holding the media.
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ITunes syncs songs already existing on iPod

Hi All,
I have a very strange problem which I have lived with (and ignored) for some time now, but I'd actually be happy if there was a solution to it. Extended searches on Apple Discussions didn't unearth any information, so I thought I'd give it a try.
I am using a MacBook Pro together with an 80GB iPod (latest model available). The iPod is Windows formatted, since I am also using it as an external hard disk.
My problem is that whenever I sync the iPod with iTunes on my Mac, iTunes each time copies many more files over to the iPod than actually necessary. So say I have added only one folder to the iTunes library since the last sync. I plug in my iPod some weeks later and iTunes insists on copying approx. 300-500 files, although these have been in my library for a long, long time and I didn't even touch them in no way (didn't play them, didn't mess with them on a file system basis, etc.).
I suspect that iTunes determines on a file date basis, which items it has to sync to the mobile device so my assumption is there is a mismatch of file dates on the iPod as opposed to the Mac.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out a solution to this problem until now, but maybe anybody else has and can share it with me? I'd be very grateful for any hint.

Just to report back:
Meanwhile I was able to try what peterna suggested - unfortunately, no luck. I connected my iPod to the Mac a couple of minutes ago and again iTunes insisted on synching songs which already were on the iPod (100% sure).
But thanks for proposing a potential solution anyway.
I guess I'll re-format in HFS+ to see if this does the trick...

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I have properly edited my id3 tags for songs already on the ipod. How can I update the tags for the same music that is on my PC???

So, any idea on how to get the tags updated in the Library?
Yes. Repeat your edits on the songs in the Library.
In the future, don't edit stuff directly on the iPod. Edit it in iTunes and then sync the iPod to copy the changes to it.

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I know some of you may be thinking that the problem might be that I'm changing the tags on those songs, but I assure you that I am in no way altering or even touching those songs that update for no reason.
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There are two things that I do that might be contributing to it, I just noticed. I tend to use the task-manager to end the Itunes.exe, and Ipodservice.exe processes after closing Itunes (I dont like closing a program and finding that it's still doing stuff in the background).
Also, I do not use the 'Eject' button in iTunes to disconnect the ipod, I manually eject it from the My Computer display of the IPOD portable media device.
I'm trying to experiment with it to see if either is actually the cause of the problem. Does anyone know for sure whether or not those processes remember which files need to be updated?
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After updating my iTunes (Windows 7, 64-bit) to version 10.6.3.25, each time I sync my iPhone 4s (iOS 5.0.1) , it will re-sync about 90-100 songs that are already on my phone. I narrowed these songs down and deleted the album art, then re-downloaded the album art as recommended by an earlier post, but it didn't fix it. I would like to have this fixed soon.
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It has to be done via iTunes. It can't be done on the iPod. Looking at songs on your iPod, you will see that if you choose the advanced menu in iTunes, the option to create a different version is greyed out.
Is your music is in mp3 format? If so, creating an AAC version will not compress it. A song of the same length, encoded at the same bitrate, gives an almost identical file size whether it be encoded in AAC or mp3.
Converting from mp3 (which is a lossy format) to AAC (which is another lossy format) or vice versa will result in a significantly lower quality file than simply re-encoding from CD. Both the AAC and mp3 encoders in iTunes are optimized to encode from full-quality audio sources.
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Well, I've been searching continuously about this for a while, however I gave up weeks ago since I found no solution. The problem has since then increased, so I decided I should fix it now while it is fairly small.
As stated in the title, iTunes synced the same 35 songs every time I plugged my itouch in. (It is 39 as of today) No, I have not messed with any of the information of the songs. I resynced 4 times, consecutively, and the same 39 songs were synced each time.
Running iTunes v10.5.3.3, and Vista.
iTouch 3rd gen
Any help is appreciated.
- I have tried converting ID3 tags and creating AAC versions.

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Please help. I have no idea why this is happening and I'm kinda new to using iTunes. I'm trying to sync music from a playlist on my iTunes account onto my iPod Shuffle (older Shuffle). I use Windows XP on my laptop. When I try moving the songs to the iPod it says the iPod is synced to another library. I didn't know I had another library (but I guess it is possible because I used iTunes a few years ago too).
The only option I get is to delete the music already on the iPod and sync the iPod to "this" library. I really don't want to lose the music already on the iPod. PLEASE HELP. I'm tech challenged to say the least.

See this post.
tt2

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You cannot merge accounts. Frequently asked questions about Apple ID - http://support.apple.com/kb/HE37
One computer using multiple iTunes Store authorizations - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1206

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OK ... i know this subject is a copy/paste from the ipod suggestions page ... however, it pretty much says it all ...
i was given a used ipod with no tunes on it so i downloaded the latest itunes, installed it, plugged in the ipod, configured it (although i didn't see a place to check for *manual configuration*) and hit *sync ipod*
it didn't!
i have restored it a couple of time in hope it will see the tunes in itunes ... in fact, you can click on the ipod icon on the left side in itunes, it opens and the tunes are there but are grayed out .... when i disconnect the ipod from the computer, click on it, no songs are listed, plus it does not change to my name from ipod
how can i fix this .... thank you for any and all help ...
darlene
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Try restoring your iPod. Restoring will erase the iPod's hard drive, reload the software and put it back to default settings. Once the restore is complete follow the on screen instructions and it should connect to iTunes and give you a prompt to automatically update your library onto the fresh installation. If you want to update manually or using selected playlists choose no and it will default to manual mode and you can choose whatever setting you like: Restoring iPod to factory settings with iTunes 7

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Hi,
Try this thread. https://discussions.apple.com/message/12661408?messageID=12661408
Carolyn

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