Music artwork sync

I went into "get info" on my movies within iTunes and added photos, I also changed it so that those photos show up as the artwork for the movie on that computer, 27" iMac. However, my question is; is it possible to sync the artwork that is on the computer I edited them on to my Macbook Pro iTunes account as well as my Apple TV.

Hi im still using ios 5 but was having a the same problem, and finally found a soultion for my phone. Ok so here's what i do 1. Go into itunes and with mine music their mostly albums so i search the album name so that only those songs appear.
2. Click edit then select all
3. Click get info, then drag the artwork u want
4. Then click the songs one by one and add the same artwork a 2nd time & your album artwork shoud be on your phone

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Some music not syncing to iPhone 6/iOS 8.0.2

Hopefully someone can assist as i've exhausted all efforts to try and figure this out.
Ever since i switched over to my new 6, i can't get all of music to sync onto the device. The song and artwork appears on the device, but when i try to play, it just skips to the next available song, and then a STOP icon with a circle around it appears. I have tried numerous things, including following some suggestions from other ASC users. The music is in my itunes library, i can play from itunes. Just not from iphone.
I have reset my network settings. Signed Out/Into iCloud. I have done numerous syncs, i have tried wiping the music library, and re-adding all songs. I have even restored my phone without music, and then manually added all the music back in. Still nothing. I have attached an image to illustrate the problem.
I have gone through all my settings, ensured that i'm backing up to the computer, not to the iCloud as i thought that perhaps it was a lack of memory in my iCloud backup causing this. Again, still nothing.
I'm not sure where to go from here. Did someone else experience such a problem with 8.0 and has a suggestion? Please assist. I got a 128gb iphone for my vast music library, and can't really use it.
Thanks.

I have not seen a progress bar that busy since the day I brought my iPhone 6 back home. Whatever I tried, iTunes simply would not sync everything in my library. In the end, the problem turned out to be as simple—but as deadly—as this:
In the current version of iTunes/iOS, there’s a bug that only appears when you have duplicates of purchased songs. When encountered, a duplicate of a purchased song will (almost always) cause iTunes to silently stop syncing.
This is a known-to-Apple issue, and it will be fixed in a forthcoming update. I’m fairly certain it’s an iTunes bug, but as Apple didn’t clearly state which it was, I’m calling it iTunes/iOS. Either way, until it’s fixed, it’s a really bad bug.
Here’s what happens: If you have duplicates of purchased songs, iTunes simply silently stops syncing when it hits one of those duplicates. From your perspective, it will look like everything is working—iTunes never throws an error, and it proceeds through all six (or seven or whatever) steps of the sync process, as seen in the status window of iTunes.
But behind the scenes, nothing is happening—at least, nothing relative to syncing your files. As seen by my troubles, this can be incredibly frustrating and hard to fix.
Continue reading to see how I was able to finally (with Apple’s help) get my devices syncing again—the tricky part is finding all the duplicates, because they’re not all obvious. Also note that if you are not having sync issues, I wouldn’t worry about duplicates—no need to endanger what’s already working well!
The “tell”
If you’re affected by this bug, you’ll find that your iOS device will get some, but not all, of your content. When you look at the device in iTunes, you’ll see something like this:
Those items with the gray dotted circle didn’t actually sync—iTunes told the iOS device the files were coming (so they show up in the list), but the file itself didn’t transfer. What seems to happen is that iTunes will sync up until it hits a duplicate of a purchased song, then it just stops (without telling you it stopped).
The fix
To fix the problem, you have to get rid of the duplicates—note that it’s only duplicates of purchased songs that cause the problem. In theory, this should be as simple as selecting your Music library, then using View > Show Duplicates. I did that first, and went through the list of matches to find actual duplicates of purchased songs.
I found a few, and removed them, but sync still wouldn’t work. Eventually, iTunes wasn’t reporting any duplicates, so I was somewhat stuck. I’d then send my sync log files back to Apple (they had me install a logging profile), and they’d be able to identify the next song that caused the problem. I’d remove that one, and then we’d then repeat this process, one painfully slow song file at a time. Ugh.
Why didn’t iTunes see these duplicates? Because they’re just different enough to not meet iTunes’ criteria, it seems. For example, here’s a duplicate that Apple identified which passed iTunes’ filters:
As you can see, the artist and time are identical, but the title and album are not. Listening to each track, though, they sounded identical to my ear. When you look at the Get Info window for these songs, you can see some other differences (click to zoom, wide window required!):
Notice that the file sizes are slightly different, and that one item has a purchase date while the other does not. These differences are enough that iTunes doesn’t think these files are duplicates, but are close enough to trigger the nasty bug.
The tool
So how do you find these devious semi-duplicates, if iTunes won’t identify them? I turned to Dupin ($15), Doug Adams’ excellent duplicate finder. I tried various combinations of Criteria settings to make sure I was getting all the dupes; this one was particularly effective:
By searching on identical album, artist and track numbers, I could find all those duplicates that had different song titles (the first three songs above, for instance, all have illegitimate dupes). Not everything found would be a true “bad” duplicate, as some CDs are just weird. You can even see that in the screenshot—Counting Crows’ Holiday in Spain and Paved Paradise are both track number 13 on Hard Candy.
Instead of using Dupin to remove the dupes (which it can do), I just switched back to iTunes and decided which one to keep and which one to delete.
After I completed this process—I found about 20 such files, all much older purchases—I was able to sync my iPhone and get 100% of my content transferred—hooray!
A very important heads up
When you first connect your iOS device after clearing your duplicates, you may see this dialog:
If you see this dialog, it’s really important that you click the Don’t Transfer button! If you do transfer the purchases back, you’ll be recreating your duplicates. And that would not be a good thing to do. (Ideally, you’ll have transferred any other legit purchases prior to clearing out duplicates, otherwise you’ll need to redownload them.)
So how’d it happen?
Just where did the duplicates come from? That’s a great question, and one I can’t completely answer. Every duplicate I found was a very old iTunes purchase—most from 2003, none newer than 2009. I don’t use iTunes Match, so it couldn’t have been some automatic thing that just happened. And all the duplicates have notable changes—some have a higher bit rate, some are DRM free vs. protected, some are longer in duration, etc.
It appears to me that, somehow at some point in time, I must have told iTunes to upgrade my collection (perhaps related to the removal of DRM, many years ago?). Those new versions should have replaced the old versions, but for whatever reason, they did not.
Years pass, and there’s no problem, because this bug is apparently a recent arrival. But once the “bugged” version of iTunes was on my Mac, the duplicate songs became sync killers.
Wrapping it all up
This was a long painful process—it’s only been four days since I picked up my iPhone, but solving the sync issue is about all I’ve been doing since then. I thank Apple for the prompt response to my issue, and for working with me to get everything working again. Everyone was incredibly professional and seemed genuinely interested in solving the problem—even on a Sunday morning.
Apple’s “normal” tech support folks were also very good, even if they didn’t seem to have the knowledge to solve the problem. They spent quite a bit of time with me, making sure they understood the problem. They checked in with me yesterday, to let me know they were still working on it.
Regardless of who solved it, I’m just very happy it’s solved…and hopefully this article will help someone else out of the same situation.

Music not syncing to new iPhone 5

I recently upgraded to the iPhone 5 from the iPhone 4. Everything but my music is syncing. I have tried many times with no luck. I am selecting my playlist since I have too many songs to fit on my phone. Both my iTunes and iOS are up to date. When I go to "music" on my phone it says "no content". I have even purchased new songs in iTunes on my phone and they still don't show up. Anyone know what's going on? I've seen other suggestions of making sure that iTunes Match is off and mine is. Do I need to restore? And will that cause me to lose any of the songs recently purchased?

Restoring the phone will erase everything on it, but if you made a backup of your iPhone 4, then you should be able to transfer all the data to the new iPhone 5. Have you made a backup of your iPhone 4?

Can't stop music from syncing to wrong i-Pod.

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Just bought a Nano for my wife and I have had a Classic for several years. We both use the same computer. I have previously downloaded i-Tunes and currently have tons of music there. Problem is, whenever I connect my wife's i-Pod to i-Tunes it immediately starts downloadeding all my music/video/photo's on to her i-Pod and I can't seem to stop it. It seems to recognize that it is in fact her i-Pod (her name and a photo of her i-Pod appear). First I thought this was happening because I had put checks next to particular songs in my library but even after removing all checks this is still happening. Any advise would be most appreciated.

Hello,
I am having the same issue and was wondering the exact thing. I purchased a Nano for my daughter's birthday and would like to download all her CDs before the day gets here, but I can't seem to keep my music from syncing to her iPod. Neither one of us will want the other's music. I need simple instructions as I'm not exactly computer-savvy. Thanks for any help!

Why wont my entire music library sync onto iTunes on my MacBook Pro? Why will only my purchased music from iTunes sync?

Background Info
I recently took my MacBook Pro 2011 to the Genius Bar because I was having issues with the logic board. Unfortunately the computer would freeze, emit three continuous beeps and basically render it useless every time I turned it on. Thus I was unable to do a more recent back up before taking it into the store. The first time I took it in, they said that the RAM and the logic board looked fine after running system diagnostics. They held onto it for about a week and when I got it back they had said that it was simply an operating system issue and that they had wiped it and reinstalled Mavericks instead of Yosemite which I had been running previous to my issues. However as soon as I took it home, the issues persisted and so I returned to the Genius Bar in hopes that they would see that the logic board was having issues. This time they sent it off to Texas to have all of the faulty parts replaced for a flat rate which included my logic board and optical drive. When I picked it up the lady at the Genius Bar said, "Good news, we didn't have to touch any of your files so they should all be on the MacBook." Alas they had already been wiped in an attempt to fix my laptop that failed. So all of my music from CD's as well as mp3 downloads of recordings done by boyfriend and other small artists not purchased from iTunes are gone.
Issue at Hand
I just got my MacBook Pro 2011 back after having it wiped by the folks at the Genius Bar. With only an old back up from 2 or 3 months ago on my external hard drive, I don't have a lot of my more recently downloaded music saved anywhere. All of my iTunes purchased are easily retrievable from iCloud and what not but mp3 downloads of personal recordings done by boyfriend and other small local bands, mp3's purchased on Amazon, mp3's purchased from Bandcamp, free mp3's from Soundcloud artists, etc. will not sync over to my MacBook. All of these songs are still on my iPhone 6 thank goodness but I would very much like to sync them over to my MacBook. If anyone knows how I can overcome this, please let me know. Thank you very much.

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I have an ipod touch and i just bought a new laptop, because i lost mine. i try to sync the music in the itouch to my new laptop but it asks me if i want to delete all my music before syncing what should i do?

i have an ipod touch and i just bought a new laptop, because i lost mine which has all the data of my itouch. i try to sync the music in the itouch to my new laptop but it asks me if i want to delete all my music before syncing what should i do?

You should use your backup copy of your computer to put everything on the new computer.
The sync is one way - computer to ipod.
The ipod will sync with one computer at a time. Syncing to another will erase teh content from the ipod.

How do i find the music i sync from my ipad to imac

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How did you sync the music from the iPad to the iMac? Did you plug the iPad in and choose File -> Transfer Purchases from <name of iPad> in iTunes?
B-rock

IPod classic displays 'No music' after sync, HDD problem? Geschiedenis • Verwijder So recently I synced my iPod Classic 160 GB like I did so many times and when I wanted to play some music afterwards it couldn't find any files on the iPod anymore. H

So recently I synced my iPod Classic 160 GB like I did so many times and when I wanted to play some music afterwards it couldn’t find any files on the iPod anymore. However when you look in the settings it displays that ~roughly 90 GB free space is available. Seen the fact that I had about 60 gigs of music this doesn’t seem like a coincidence and I think my music is still somewhere on the ipod but the HDD isn’t recognizing it anymore.
I’ve tried resetting it, and resetting it to factory settings, which didn’t work. When connected to a desktop it won’t be recognized by iTunes, it displays an error message that the iPod cannot be read and that I have to reset it to factory settings.
I’ve spent some time researching this problem yesterday and I ran into a myriad of vaguely similar problems didn’t really offer any help. Currently I’m thinking that formatting the iPod might work, and restoring the software afterwards. However this is a rather bold strategy so I’d like to consult you here first.
Thanks in advance!

Hi turingtest2,
Thank you for the info, with formatting my iPod I managed to connect it to iTunes again.
However..in the page you linked to there is a section about how transferring large amounts of data can dump your library. That seems to be the problem in this case. It won't even allow me to transfer more than 2 gigabytes of music per sync, if I go higher it will dump everything again. Having over >60 GB of music in my library, this is disastrous to say the least.
Do you think that there is any other solution besides the method you mentioned involving Smart Playlists?

How do I get all my music to sync to my phone?

I am trying to sync a playlist of 104 songs to my iPhone, so I select the playlist under Music and Sync. However, on my iPhone, only 32 songs are synced. I tried restarting my iPhone (holding home and lock button), reinstalling iTunes, and unsycning all my music then syncing the playlist again. I have a MacBook Pro Mid-April 2010 edition with the latest version of iTunes and iOS software.
I also have a problem with my iPod (just including in case the problem is related). All of my music is shown, but when I play a song, depending on which song it is, it'll either not play the song or skip to a different song. I have an iPod 4th Gen black.

For your purchases, read this: iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
For other content, you need to transfer from your old computer to the new Mac or use a third party utility like http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/ that can get it from your iPhone.

HT1391 I had all of my music on an external hard drive that failed. I have iTunes Match so all of my music was synced with the "cloud". How do I now download and save all of my music back down on a new external hard drive?

I had all of my music on an external hard drive that crashed. I have iTunes Match so all of my music was synced in the cloud. How do I now re-load my music back down onto a new external hard drive?

Hey Rbe58!
I believe this question can be answered by the information in the following article:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Access all your music anytime, anywhere with iTunes Match
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph12492
Play or download songs from iCloud
You can play songs directly from iCloud, or you can download songs so you can play them when you’re not connected to the Internet.
If a song is available in iCloud, it has a Download button next to it.
To play the song, double-click it.
To download the song, click the Download button.
After you download a song to a computer, it remains in the computer’s iTunes library, even if you turn off iTunes Match.
To only display downloaded songs in your iTunes library, choose View > Hide Music in the Cloud. This also hides any previous iTunes Store purchases you haven’t downloaded.
For information about downloading and playing songs on an iOS device, see the documentation for the device.
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden

Whenever I try to sync either my iPhone or iPad to iTunes, I keep getting the message, "the iPhone (or iPad) cannot be synched. The required file cannot be found." My music will sync but none of my videos or photos will. Help me, please!

Whenever I try to sync either my iPhone4 or iPad I get the following message. "The iPhone (or iPad) cannot be synched. The required file cannot be found." My music will sync but none of my videos or photos will. Please help me somebody. Thanks.

I'd read a few of these other threads and make sure you really want that update

I have a ipod touch 5g. The music wont sync from my computer to it and music downloaded on my ipod won't synce to my computer. How do I fix it?

I have a ipod touch 5g. The music wont sync from my computer to it and music downloaded on my ipod won't synce to my computer. How do I fix it?

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iTunes: Syncing media content to iOS devices and iPod
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You have to give us a little bit more information.
Where is this music now: on a Mac, on a PC, on an iPhone, in iTunes Match?
Where did it come from: iTunes, CDs, other downloads?
How have you tried to sync the music to the iPad, and what results have you received: error messages, crashes, grayed-out buttons, just no action?

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For sure. Sorry I couldn't bring better news.
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