My itunes won't sync new music to my iphone

I've got the 'selected songs, playlists and albums' option on, and I have selected a number of albums that I want to have on my iphone4s and it used to sync those ones fine. But as of 2 or 3 months ago it won't sync any others, and it won't let me change the ones that are on there currently. I have made sure my software on everything is updated, I've restarted everything, I've tried deleting all music and reinstalling it, nothing's worked. Any suggestions?

It just randomly decided to work, and sync'd another 120 or so songs, so I guess the question is closed. I didn't do anything to change it, I just hit sync for the n'th time and got lucky I guess?

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ITunes won't sync new music

I recently put some new albums on my iTunes, but my iPod won't sync the music! I also updated some things with other albums by the same artist(I added album artwork) and it showed those updates. Then I got another album and put that on there, and that album syncs! These three albums just WON'T sync to my iPod...why is that? I checked and they have the right information for the artist/album artist, album, genre, tracks, all that stuff. What would keep music from being synced?

Well that's weird they won't sync, then - if they play in itunes, your PC is authorized OK for those songs if they are purchased, and if they are not purchased, it's a file type itunes can recognize.
Any errors?
Are you actually syncing the music to the iPod, or manually managing the music?
Where did you get them - download, ripped from CD using itunes?

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Hi,
I had the same music sync problem after updating to iTunes 11.1.
I called 1-800-MY-APPLE and they've had several people calling in about this.
I am on Win7, and trying to transfer to iPhone 4S.
Here's what worked for me:
1. After connecting phone to computer, go to Summary tab, scroll down to Options and ensure only "Synch only check songs and videos" is checked.
2. Then go to Music tab and UNCHECK everything you have checked. (you can do this by checking the top entry, then click on the bottom entry while pressing Control, then click on it again to uncheck all).
3. Then click on SYNC.
4. This wipes out all your music on the iphone BUT leaves it there with a "cloud" symbol so you can download vai wifi cloud if you want.
5. Now go back to Music Tab and select some song to bring over, and click on SYNC and see if it works.
It did for me!
But now you have to add all your songs again. Yay.
Good luck.

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I updated iTunes and my iPhone 4 to the latest versions, now my music won't sync. It gets to step 5 of 5 and says "waiting for changes to be apllied." After saying this for a good 3 mins the sync prosses just quits and my music hasn't synced. I ran the sync diagnostics and it came back that everything is good. Clearly it's not though.

Close and relaunch iTunes.
Reboot the computer.
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Hey gang-
I have lots of iTunes purchased music videos in iTunes that I also sync and enjoy on my iPhone 3gs. But I also have some music videos that I made myself from video I shot. They display and play fine in iTunes on my Mac.
But the weird thing is the ones I made will NOT sync to my iPhone. Now- I recall learning something about this a few years ago. I seem to recall iPod and iPhone are much more "fussy" than Desktop iTunes about what they consider to be a Music Video. Something to do with Metatags, but it was very specific about which ones?
Here's what I do know:
1) Both my types of music videos appear in the Music Videos Smart playlist in iTunes on my Mac.
2) When I Get Info, both types of Music Videos show Media Kind of "Music Video" on the Options tab.
3) Both play Audio and Video perfectly in iTunes on my Desktop Mac
4) But the ones I made will NOT sync to my iPhone, even though the playlist they are in is selected and "Include Music Videos" is selected in the iTunes Sync Music tab.
Can anyone remember what the "magic" is to getting iPhone to get on the same page with iTunes on Music Videos? Running iTunes 10.2.1 and Snow Leopard 10.6.6 and iOS 4.2.1 on iPhone 3gs
Thanks gang!
Dave

Jim VanLeeuwen wrote:
Select the videos that won't sync and use the iTunes Advanced menu > Create iPod or iPhone Version. iTunes will create a version for your iPhone while leaving the original in place, which you may retain or delete at your option.
Jim-
Okay, next time I promise to at least challenge you a little bit LOL!
Yes, that fixed it instantly. Many thanks!
Dave

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Successful experience with Apple Care.
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2. Head to /System/Library/Extensions/ and trash file AppleMobileDevice.kext
3. Head to /Library/Receipts/ and trash AppleMobileDeviceSupport.pkg ( * this may or may not be there * )
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Your iPad is married to its now deceased old computer. This is the reason for the necessity of a backup for your computer, which your iPad is not.
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Dear all
i'm problem with iTunes. It won't snyc any of the music to my iPhone 6. I tried to connect the phone to an i Mac, all sync but music. Before I press the sync button (of course I selected sync all music), it showed in the status bar including the storage used by music. BUT when I click sync, and it went quickly to step 5 and finish sync, no music storage shown anymore and no music found in my phone.
Later I tried on another computer(deauthorised the Mac first). No working either... (Sync apps but not music)
Is this an technique problem of iTunes or is my iPhone 6 a faulty product? PLEASE HELP!

Hey theonlyaustin!
Try re-downloading these files from your past purchases list:
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
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Regards,
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This is ridiculous, I've trying to sync my music and nothings happens. I have followed every single advice people have posted here and still is imposible. I never had any problems with this, I used to do it wirelessly too, and it always worked! Now up everytime a new update comes along sometings goes wrong. I can't even begin to explain at how frustated this is. if I buy an iphone with so much space is because I want to have my music. Someone needs to fix this. I miss the times when Jobs was alive, we didn't have this kind of problems happening, someone needs to get back to work and fix all the problems apple users are having.

*I put my music on the Ipod driver*
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Did you copy the iTunes from your old computer to the new computer?

My itunes won't sync new music to my iphone

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