Most songs deleted off ipod!

I recently redid my computer, so theres nothing left. My ipod had all my music so I wasnt too worried. Then i tried syncing it and now only certain songs are on itunes and my ipod. where did all the rest of the songs go?!

There are some data recovery programs on the market. I've no personal experience of them so I can't say how effective they are, here's an example: iPod Data Recovery
None of the recovery programs are particularly cheap so you have to decide if in your particular circumstances it's worth it to get your songs back. If they came primarily from your CDs then it's most likely not as you can re-rip them.

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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
As long as all of the songs are in iTunes, you will be fine. You can restore the iPod, then reload everything from iTunes...
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I downloaded a new version of iTunes, and some of the music that I had on my iPod came from another computer. When I connected my iPod, I forgot to change the settings to manual, and a ton of songs were deleted off of my iPod. Does anyone know if there's a way to get them back on again?? thanks

No, there wouldn't be a way (unless connecting the iPod to the other computer again).
If the songs were deleted by auto-syncing in iTunes, then they are permenately deleted.
If you'd like to prevent auto-syncing from happening to your iPod int he future, then try this:
1 - Open iTunes, and leave it up and running.
2 - Get ready to watch your iPod, and connect it to your computer.
3 - As soon as your iPod displays "Do Not Disconnect", immediately begin to press and hold the "Shift" and "Ctrl" keys for about 30 seconds. Let off the keys when you're sure iTunes isn't going to do anything with your iPod.
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Hi! I DESPERATELY need help! (I can't live without my music)
I have the 2nd generation, 4 GB nano, and when I synced my songs today, iTunes (the newest version available on the apple website) told me that all of my songs in iTunes cannot fit in my iPod. So it asked me if I wanted to create an "iPod selection" so my songs would be synced, so I said yes.
After turning on my iPod, I noticed that all my playlists were gone, and this "iPod selection" had replaced all of them. So, I went back to iTunes, deleted the "iPod selection", and went back to my iPod thinking all my old playlists would be there, but ALL MY MUSIC IS GONE! Luckily, I have all my songs backed up on my computer, but now my iPod is EMPTY, and I have no idea how to re-sync my songs!
Whenever I try to sync, it tells me "it cannot be synced because all of the playlists for syncing no longer exist".
I would really appreciate some help, thanks!!

You get this problem when the option 'Sync Music - Selected playlists' is being used to sync your iPod. If the playlist selected is deleted from iTunes the iPod no longer has a location to sync from and you get an error. (Syncing selected playlists by the way is a useful setting to use when the iPod is smaller than the iTunes library). However you can make a new one or make use of an existing one.
Open iTunes and create a playlist to update your iPod from, call it -My iPod for example (the dash will position it at the top of the playlists in Sources). You can make it a smart playlist that picks the songs for you or just a normal one and drag whatever content you want to have into the playlist. If you are making a smart playlist limit it to just less than the size of your iPod (for example 3700MB for a 4G iPod Nano. Now connect your iPod and when it appears in the Source list click on the iPod icon to bring up the preference tabs in the main pane. Go to the Music tab and choose Sync Music and the Selected playlists radio button. Choose the playlist you just made from the selection and click Apply. You can also sync from any existing playlists by choosing the same setting, you just need to make sure that the size of the playlists don't exceed the capacity of your iPod:
How to create a Smart Playlist with iTunes
Syncing Music to iPod
To make a random playlist go to File>New Smart Playlist.
Uncheck "Match the following rule"
Check "Limit to" put "3700" in the number box, choose "MB" from the first list box, choose "Random" from the next list box. Check "Live Updating"
When you want to change the selection in the smart playlist just delete everything in it and it will add a new selection. When you want to change the normal playlist just delete out what you don't want and drag in a new selection.

If I delete songs off of a playlist on my iPhone 4S, will the songs delete off of the iTunes playlist when I sync?

So basically, I have a LOT of music. Like, over 26,000 songs a lot. I am now in the process of going through all of it, song by song, and I have been making playlists on iTunes and syncing them to my phone. Now, I know I can delete the songs manually off of my iPhone, but will they delete off of iTunes as well once I sync back to the computer? I'm worried that all of my work will be for naught. And if there is a way to delete the songs off of iTunes, other than manually selecting and deleting, please let me know. Thank you!

B2Veil,
The best way to ensure the content gets removed from your iPhone is to back it up and then Erase All Content and Settings. See the article belows below for more info:
iOS: How to back up and restore your content
iOS: Understanding 'Erase All Content and Settings'
You can remove all settings and information from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using "Erase All Content and Settings" in Settings > General > Reset.
I hope this information helps ....
Have a great day!
- Judy

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So my computer that I used primarily got stolen so I'm using my old computer that barely has any music on it. I set my ipod up to use it on my old computer and selected it for manual everything so nothing would get deleted. I went to sync a couple new songs and manually synced them. In turn, almost everything got erased. In iTunes, on the iPod menu, it says everything is still there but it's not showing up on my iPod. I'm freaking out because there was like 7000+ songs on iPod and now I'm down to about 200 or so actually on my iPod and don't know what to do!!!!!
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It's not like I can just sync my iPod with iTunes. I'll lose a lot of music.
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See lllaass's suggestion here:
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Maybe a stupid question but I figured it was worth asking.
I have a bunch of songs that are not on my HD but still in the iTunes library, and my iPod is set to manual update because I'm scared of losing all my songs. The actual question is; if the songs are still in the library but the songs aren't actually there, will they be deleted from my iPod if I set it to automatic updating?
(Don't tell me to buy an external harddrive; can't afford it, haha.)

Thanks for a speedy reply and won't change that, then
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Songs deleted from ipod

I was wondering if any one would know of any patches for my ipod, as i have just reciently disconected my ipod from itunes and every single song was deleted.......
would any one know how to recover these songs
cheers,
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Hi David
I had/have the exact same problem... also running XP... it doesn't happen all the time tho is very frustrating! I find my iPod will freeze, won't respond to anything, and when I unplug it, everything is gone.
The only thing I've been able to do when this happens is reload your songs thru iTunes.
But I would love to know why this happens and how it can be fixed.... anyone?
Erika

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I'm having trouble restoring my photos on my iPod Touch. Recently when saving pictures off Safari, my iPod told me to fix up something in my Photos folder. So when I went to my Photos folder, it said 'rebuilding library'. It always happens when I mass save many pictures at once but it never deletes anything off my iPod. But when since this happened, I can't save any new pictures especially high quality ones more like 1000x1000 in size. Also, it deleted 200+ pictures off my Saved Photos folder.
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PUTTING THE MOST SONGS ON MY IPOD

IS THERE A SETTING WHERE I CAN CHANGE TO WHERE I CAN TRY AND PUT THE MAX TUNES ON MY IPOD? IT SAYS IT HOLDS 240 SONGS BUT RIGHT NOW IT ONLY FITS 187. ANYTHING I CAN DO? OR IS THAT THE MOST? NEW USER HEAR AND JUST TRYING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS NEAT THING. THANKS FOR ANY HELP

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions.
1. Stop shouting! (On the left hand side of your keyboard there is a key marked 'Caps Lock' ). It's poor form to shout everything.
2. I assume you have a Shuffle or Nano and hence the 240 song quote. This is an average; the iPod actually has 1Gb of memory so if you store photos, contacts, calendars or use it as a flash disk this will eat in to the 1Gb of space you have and reduce the number of songs you can store. If the songs you have are long or encoded at a very high bit rate then you'll also be unable to store as many as you thought.
Apple's 240 song average is based on:
Song capacity is based on 4 minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding;
This forum is for feedback about the Apple Discussion forums themselves. To learn more about your iPod visit this page and enjoy some of the video and web based tutorials.
You may also find iPod 101.
regards
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