ITunes will not sync my music properly?

I had an iphone 3, then i bought an iphone 4 from the MAC store, the iphone4 will sync everything except my music, it downloads some of it but the songs will not play all the way through and it will not download my playlists from iTunes. As well it will download some of my photos, but when it gets half way through my computer shuts down. I never had a single problem with my iPhone 3. I have uninstalled iTunes and reinstalled twice now, and it does not seem to fix the problem. Thanks for any help you can offer

In iTunes, Select the album use FIle > Get Info > Info tab and check that the artist entry is filled then resync.

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Itunes will not sync music to my phone. It will go through the sycning process but nothing will be there.
I have no songs and if I try to downlaod a new song it gets stuck in downloading and will give the error
"download error. Tap to retry" I have done everything on the forums but nothing has worked for me.

Hi lawgirl11,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
The troubleshooting steps at this link can help if your iPhone isn't syncing to iTunes:
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/itunes/
Best,
Jeremy

ITunes is not syncing my music properly, and asks if I'm sure I want to "remove existing music, films...." no!

I have researched similar questions for this issue, but none of the solved answers seem to apply for me!
This is what shows up when I click on 'music' on 'my device' (which is an iPhone 4s ios 8) it looks fine, but as you can see- some recently purchased songs have not synced properly, despite me already transferring purchased files. I wanted to delete and organize songs, but when I select a song- there's no option to delete i1! as well as this, the music shown here is not up to date with the music on my actual iPhone.
I then clicked on to the itunes library, and my music has not been synced there either. When I click sync music, it asks if I was to delete all of my existing music, films etc and I do not want that!
I searched for a similar scenario to this one, and one answer was to transfer devices and back up music before syncing and removing everything, but it didn't work for?
In desperate need of some help, I'm pretty clueless with the new iTunes and I just want to be able to have all of my music up to date and in sync!

Everything that is on your device should be in your library too. If that is not the case then see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device. See also Backup your iTunes for Windows library with SyncToy.
Once you have secured your content you can work on resolving the sync issue.
When the media on the device won't update as expected during a sync the method that usually works is this:
Export the contents of the camera roll. (You should do this routinely anyway.)
Backup the device, unless you have a recent backup that you would prefer to restore.
Restore as a new device. (The general restore process doesn't seem to clear things out before reloading, so there can be issues with missing artwork or incorrect capacity calculations.)
Restore the chosen backup.
In some cases it might pay to use the recovery mode method given in HT201263: If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch at step 3 to ensure that a device has been completely reset before reloading your content.
tt2

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Lavoice wrote:
..... Then i scrollover to computer and it will not download librairy Home sharing is on
This is a problem with home sharing, you are not going to have to re-encode all your CD's.
The following article(s) may help you.
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
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Wifi Diagnostic Software (for Mac users)
You may also find some help on this page, where I’ve collected some of the more unusual solutions to network issues.

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Hey there,
I synced my iPhone with my MBP the other day and only I have realized that all the music I didn't purchase on Itunes was lost... Most of these songs aren't even available on iTunes...
Anyways so when I open Music on my iPhone I can still see the covers of all songs but when I click on them a loading logo appears and Music just skips these songs- pretty annoying On my Mac I set the Music syncing thingy to 'all my music'...
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Hello Cobre,
After reviewing your post, I have located an article that can help in this situation. It contains helpful advice concerning syncing:
iTunes: Syncing media content to iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1351
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
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iDevices can only be synched with one library. However, you can sync successfully with more than one computer if each has a copy of the same logical library - the identifier that iTunes uses to determine which library is synced an iDevice is recorded within the iTunes database (the iTunes Library.itl file). The best approach is to replicate your complete library (database, media, artwork, associated files) from one PC to the other. When you reinstalled iTunes on your laptop it will, by default, have created a new library with a distinct id from that of your other machine. Even if you copied all your media from one to the other, iTunes will still see the libraries as distinct with respect to syncing iDevices.
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Once the copy is complete, make sure that iTunes is using the correct library database by holding down SHIFT as you start iTunes. When you see this prompt:
select Choose Library..., navigate to the iTunes folder you just copied, select the iTunes Library.itl file you'll find there, and click Open.
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Itunes will not sync - tried everything!

Please help! After several years of working without an issue, I tried to sync my itunes library to my ipod recently (the only changes were that I edited existing playlists, no new music was added or deleted).
The issue appeared as follows:
- Firstly I saw error 69. I removed all music that appeared to be an error (given that no songs had given this error beforehand, I don’t understand why all of a sudden itunes wouldn’t allow my
Please help! After several years of working without an issue, I tried to sync my itunes library to my ipod recently (the only changes were that I edited existing playlists, no new music was added or deleted).
The issue appeared as follows:
- Firstly I saw error 69. I removed all music that appeared to be an error (given that no songs had given this error beforehand, I don’t understand why all of a sudden itunes wouldn’t allow my ipod to sync with songs it had previously synced)
- Once I had removed these songs, I attempted again to sync, but itunes now just freezes mid sync (sometimes on a song, sometimes not). I cannot click on anything in itunes when it freezes, I just have to shut it down via task manager. Sometimes itunes will sync a song without an issue (and progress further in syncing, then freeze later), and sometimes it will freeze on that same song it previously had no issue with, stating “error 69”
- I uninstalled and reinstalled itunes. The issue remained.
- I uninstalled and reinstalled my entire music library. The issue remained. I created new music libraries that do not have any songs from my previous music library. The issue remained.
- I have attempted to sync another ipod, which previously worked. It experiences the same issue now. Both ipods now, every time I attempt to sync, request me to restore defaults and scan and fix issues with the ipods. Sometimes I do so, but it makes no difference.
- In summary: itunes will not sync even if uninstalled and reinstalled. I have tried syncing two different ipods, both of which synced without issue previously, but neither will sync now. I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling and creating a new music library, but itunes still will not sync.
ipod to sync with songs it had previously synced)
- Once I had removed these songs, I attempted again to sync, but itunes now just freezes mid sync (sometimes on a song, sometimes not). I cannot click on anything in itunes when it freezes, I just have to shut it down via task manager. Sometimes itunes will sync a song without an issue (and progress further in syncing, then freeze later), and sometimes it will freeze on that same song it previously had no issue with, stating “error 69”
- I uninstalled and reinstalled itunes. The issue remained.
- I uninstalled and reinstalled my entire music library. The issue remained. I created new music libraries that do not have any songs from my previous music library. The issue remained.
- I have attempted to sync another ipod, which previously worked. It experiences the same issue now. Both ipods now, every time I attempt to sync, request me to restore defaults and scan and fix issues with the ipods. Sometimes I do so, but it makes no difference.
- In summary: itunes will not sync even if uninstalled and reinstalled. I have tried syncing two different ipods, both of which synced without issue previously, but neither will sync now. I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling and creating a new music library, but itunes still will not sync.

Hi victorian1978,
It sounds like you have been on the right track in troubleshooting this issue. You may want to double-check that you are completely removing all the iTunes files when uninstalling/reinstalling, and make sure you test with only a limited amount of data initially (perhaps a single song). You may find the following article helpful:
Apple Support: Removing and reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows Vista or Windows 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
Regards,
- Brenden

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