My iTunes doesn't sync ALL of my music to my iPod, saying "the required disc cannot be found"

When I sync my iPod, only about half of my music syncs and a message comes up saying "the required disc cannot be found"
Please help me!!!
Thankyou so so much

Deleting the iPod Photo Cache folder usually resolves the problem. For its location see:
iTunes: Understanding the iPod Photo Cache folder

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Try deleting the photo cache from your computer and then re-try the photo sync - the location of the cache, and how to delete it, is on this page http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314

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Hello i dont know if someone already posted about this, i couldnt find something like it.
My iPod is a Shuffle first generation
When i connect my ipod to my computer it detects its as normal (Driver F or G), then itunes opens and then says "ipod has been succesfully synced" as it always does, but now when i try to put a song in it it stays for like 5 minutes with "Syncing iPod do not disconnect" after those 5 minutes a message appears:
"The iPod "IPOD" cannot be synced. The required disc cannot be found."
I tried restoring it but i couldnt it said something about error in iPod so it erased all files in the iPod including the ones in iPod control hidden folder. The weird thing is that i connected it to 5 iMacs from my school and there iTunes had no problem syncing music to my iPod and i could listen to it and everything but when i returned home the old problem came back, i dont want to go to my school to sync my iPod everytime i want to erase or put another song in it.
Please i need to solve this ive had my iPod for 1 1/2 years and it worked perfect until recently and i live in mexico i cant order a replacement or anything. i think this happened after an itunes upgrade i think it was 7.4, my ipod has the latest version for ipod shuffle first generation 7.5

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Yesterday, I bought 3 CD's (yep, the physical kind) and today I ripped them into iTunes on my 24" iMac (with my usual custom settings, 256kbps, stereo, 44,100 KHz, with error correction on). I had synced my iPod Touch earlier this morning. Then I went to sync my iPod Touch (2nd gen., 32GB) to get the new albums onto it (it had about 3GB of space, so shouldn't have been a problem, I thought).
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It's beginning to feel like my iPod Touch and/or iTunes are ptiching a fit because I didn't buy these albums from the iTMS. Verrrrrry frustrating!
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Are you also syncing photos? If yes, try to delete the photo cache folder, explained in this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314
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ok so i read through 10 pages of threads to see if someone else has the same problem before posting, i had itunes installed before i had an ipod as i used it for work, i have about seven hundred songs in my library, although most of them are in another folder for work, when i got a 1G nano for xmas i tried to sync it, so because there were so many songs it took a selection and made a playlist that i cant remember what it was called, all the songsi wanted in my ipod were not there, my sister deleted the playlist saying all i needed to do was tick the boxes i wanted in the ipod, so i unticed the 700 songs and only kept the ones i wanted, but when i tried to sync it, it cleared the ipod and gave me the message, the ipod my ipod cannot be synced the required disk cannot be found, i put in the set up disc but that never did anything, i pressed on sync and it came up "playlist no longer exists, so is it because my sister deleted the playlist that they set up, is it a smart one? if so how do i get it back and then how do i get the songs i want on my ipod, i have spent all day trying to uninstal and instal etc, sorry it's long but i dont know what to do! please help

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