My songs are still on my ipod but they wont play

So my playlist is still on my ipod and when i choose a song it displays the title and artist, but the song itelf wont play. anything i can do?

its so easy all you do is reset it hit menu and the middle button at the same time hold it until the apple comes up then try it if it still doenst work try reloading your music

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I know the songs are still on my Ipod, but they wont appear.

i know that i have my songs loaded on my ipod, because there is only 8 gigs left out of 19 some-odd gigs, but none of the playlists nor the songs show up on the ipod or itunes. my photos are still on, ive installed the ipod updater and new version of itunes, but the songs still wont appear. i dont want to have to delete everything off my ipod because i have songs from other computers on my ipod that i wouldnt be able to get back. any suggestions on what to do?
ps. ive tried this on both a mac and pc. the problem occurred after i loaded my ipod onto a mac, it would play the songs off the ipod, but when i dissconnected the ipod none of the songs appeared.
using both mac and pc Mac OS X (10.4.1)

You can try to restore your iPod... But before you do that you should get a 3rd party program like Yamipod to copy everything off of your iPod onto your computer so you wont have to worry about losing music/videos again!

When I connect my ipod to computer and open itunes, the songs on my ipod do not show up on the itunes library...it is blank...songs are still on my ipod but don't seem to show up on computer..help??

When I connect my ipod to computer and open itunes, the songs on my ipod do not show up on the itunes library...it is blank...songs are still on my ipod but don't seem to show up on computer..help??

Download this for getting media off your ipod!http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/19890/ipoddisk
Hope this helped!

My ipod had to be restored so I restored it. Now it says my songs are back on my ipod, but they ain't. I have tried syncing it like ten times.

My ipod had to be restored so I restored it. Now it says my songs are back on my ipod, but they ain't. I have tried syncing it like ten times.

- Try restoring from a backup that include the photos. See the restore topic of:
iOS: How to back up
- If you use PhotoStream you should be able to get the last 30 days worth from your PhotoStream. See:
iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer

My songs are still on my ipod but it says 0 items, wont mount properly

my ipod will connect to my computer and is recognized, however when i open itunes it tells me i need to restore. I cant seem to find my ipodcontrol folder on this computer though to back up all of my music. I opened it on another computer and all of my files are on the ipod still. BUT i cant access them on my ipod. its driving me crazy, in my about option on my ipod it tells me that my available capacity is at what it was before my songs disappeared, because it tells me i have 0 items. i know its on there because i just installed some software to back up my ipod but it wont open the songs in itunes, but on a laptop i was able to find the ipodcontrol folder and play the songs on itunes. WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY IPOD!? this all came about when i plugged my ipod into my boyfriend's itunes, added songs, then the itunes became shoty and had to close the application manually. we ejected my ipod, tried to listen to it, and all my songs were gone...but they arent...because all the files are still there. how do i get my songs back to playing, and my ipod mounted correctly?
5th generation
5th generation

I've got somehow the same problem.
When I connect the Ipod to my computer and is recognized, I get the message that the file 'Itunes DB' has been damaged or can't be read and that I have to use the program CHKDSK, whatever that means.
Itunes gives me the message that he can't read the Ipod and that I have to restore the Ipod to the factory settings. But then I loose al the fantastic music that had been stored on the Ipod. Don’t know what to do any more…
All the problems started when I had to reset my Ipod because I couldn't turn him off!!!!

I need help - songs are still on the ipod but dont show up

my itunes crashed the other day and suddenly all the files on my ipod were gone. now when i connect it, itunes doesnt recognize it anymore, but i can see from the space left info in the finder that the songs are still on there. using ipod viewer, it even loads the songs to a certain point. unfortunately, a message comes up about an error reading the ipod. now my question is, is there any way or program to extract all those files from my ipod or do i really need to restore it?

yes i did. that was actually what i did when i had my ipod connected to the computer and itunes froze which lead to all my stuff getting deleted. so NEVER do this while your ipod is connected to your computer. thanks for your reply.

Ipod classic 7th gen. Songs are not showing on ipod but they are on it ( Got the new itunes) Is the new itunes not compatible with ipod

I got a ipod classic 7 th generation. I put songs on it ( and it shows on my mac that the songs are on the ipod (Songs from cd's) when I disconnect my ipod the songs are not showing on the ipod (but they on it) except one song that I purchased on itunes (this songs shows on the ipod) I got the new itunes and OS X Lion 10.8.5 on my Mac. Is the new itunes are not compatible with the ipod classic 7th generation?
please I need help.
THank you so much

No backup is not good.
You can transfer itunes purchases from an ipod. File>Transfer Purchases

HT1296 A while back all my songs on my iTunes (laptop) disappeared. All songs are still on my iPod nano, but I'm scared to try to sync. my iPod with computer/itunes as I know someone who accidently wiped out all their songs doing this. Suggestions?

A while back the songs on my itunes (laptop) just disappeared, but the songs are still on my ipod nano. Since this happend I purchased some songs which are now on my itunes/laptop, but NOT on my ipod.
I want to sync my iPod with my itunes account on my laptop (i.e. all songs on ipod are on itunes and vice-versa), however I know someone who attended a simular sync. and the accidently wiped-out all of their songs.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
MarkfromManitoba

- Transfer iTunes purchases to the computer by:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
- Transfer other music by using a thrid-party program like one of those discussed here:
Copy music
- The try syncing. If you synced last time with this computer you should not a have a problem.

Purchased songs show up on my ipod but will not play!

I am about ready to drive over my ipod with a car! I have the 80GB ipod and it was working fine until recently. For whatever reason, songs that I had previously (as in months ago) purchased on itunes show up on my ipod, but do not play. All other songs (ones that I downloaded from cd's) show up and play. I have tried everything I can think of but it still won't get them to play! HELP!

See this.
iPod does not play content purchased from the iTMS.
If you have made sure that both the iTunes and iPod software are current and have deauthorized and reauthorized your computer, try this test:
1. Deauthorize the computer.
2. Create a new user in the system.
3. Download the free song of the week from the iTMS in the new user account.
4. Play the song in that user account to authorize again.
5. Restore the iPod (using the iPod updater) in the new user account.
6. Sync just the free song of the week and see if it plays on the iPod.
If it does, you appear to have a corrupted iTunes library file, and you should recreate the iTunes library file in your normal user account, and then sync your music back to the iPod and all should be well.
The following articles will help you.
About Authorization and Deauthorization.
How to restore the iPod.
How to recreate your iTunes library.
How to create a new user account in Windows.

Downloaded songs from itunes, see them in my playlist but they wont play

Had the same issue with my last 3 song downloads from iTunes. I can see the song in my playlist, but it wont play? I have been using iTues/iPods/iPads for 7 years and have never had this issue. Can someone help me?

If your country's iTunes Store allows you to redownload purchased tracks, I'd delete your current copies of the tracks and try redownloading fresh copies.
Otherwise, I'd report the problem to the iTunes Store.
Log in to the Store. Click on "Account" in your Quick Links. When you're in your Account information screen, go down to Purchase History and click "See all".
Find the items that are not playing properly. If you can't see "Report a Problem" next to the items, click the "Report a problem" button. Now click the "Report a Problem" links next to the items.
(Not entirely sure what happens after you click that link, but fingers crossed it should be relatively straightforward.)

Can import cd's but they wont play properly

Ive bought myself an ipod nano for christmas and its all wrapped up under the tree but i decided to get a head start with importing songs from my cd's.
When i import songs from a cd and go to play them on my computer, or even if the songs start playing while im importing, it only plays the first second of the song over and over again. At the top, where it shows the progress of the song, itunes is counting down the minutes of the song normally and yet i still only hear the first second of the song over and over again. Ive looked in the help section and tried everything. The songs are imported using the AAC encoder.
When i first downloaded itunes and did my first import, the songs played fine, then my computer reset itself which it does frequently, and its only ever since then that they wont play properly and i dont know why because i didnt change any of the settings. Ive since fiddled around with the different options and nothing has worked.

No.
The songs played fine until the computer reset itself. Ever since then, that's when they will only play the first second of the song over and over again.
I deleted the songs and tried to import them again but that didnt help. I've tried to import songs from other cd's and the same thing happens.
Even if I just try to play a cd using itunes, same thing happens, first second of each song over and over again.
My cd's play fine on windows media player. Its really starting to frustrate me!

I am trying to move files into imovie but they wont play

I am horrible with computers but trying. The files were saved and would play through VLC player when I clicked on them to rename them I change them to .mov and then when I tried to import in to Imovie they woud not do it and now they will not play at all. So I tried changing them to mp4 but they wouldnt play still. How can I convert these or save them to go into imovie so I can get them edited an uploaded to youtube. I have that part figured out but I dont have the first part figured out. Thanks

See my post here for how to do this.

My computer says my songs are loaded on the ipod, but there isn't anything

I got an iPod mini for Christmas. I followed the instructions to get everything set up on the computer (I already had iTunes). When I connect my iPod, it says all of the songs are already downloaded to my iPod and the "updates are complete". When I disconnect my iPod, there aren't any songs there. If I scroll through the settings, it says "0 songs", but when I connect my iPod to iTunes, it says there is 11 hours of songs there (I have the songs uploaded to the computer, but I cannot get them onto my iPod).
I tried to reset my iPod, restore it, reload and update iTunes, everything else that is suggested to fix it. My computer says the songs are on my iPod, but my iPod says there are 0 songs. How do I get the songs loaded?

Check out this.
Strange iPod behavior.

Songs Won't Sync To Ipod, But They Show Up In My Library..Help!

OK, all my songs went missing off of my mini and I can't get them to sync back on but they are still in my library... and now when I try to connect the ipod into itunes and connect my ipod, an error messege comes up, something about playlists.. but im mainly just concerned on trying to get my library back!
"Songs on the ipod "Name Of Ipod" cannot be updated because the playlists selected for syncing no longer exist."
I have done the 5 R's but nothing worked, I also tried restoring my ipod but it gets stuck in the middle and i get an error message for that too.
"the ipod "Name Of Ipod" could not be restored an unknow error occured (1428)."
and i cannot call apple to help b/c my ipod is over a year old and they will charge a fee for a service call....
I also recently updated to the newest version of Itunes.
CAN SOMEONE HELP PLEASE, I'D LIKE TO GET THIS PROBLEM SOVLED AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE.. THANK YOU!
ipod mini Windows XP

You get this problem when the option 'Sync Music - Selected playlists' is being used to sync your iPod and then the playlist it has been updating from is deleted. Most people use this setting when the iPod is smaller than the iTunes library. If your library is larger than the capacity of your iPod, iTunes by default makes a new playlist called something along the lines of "Owner's iPod". If you for any reason delete it, you will not be able to sync your iPod.
Open iTunes and create a playlist to update your iPod from, call it -iPod to make it the first playlist in Sources. You can make this a normal playlist and drag whatever you want to it or you can make it a random Smart 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:
iTunes: Creating playlists of your favorite songs
How to create a Smart Playlist with iTunes
Replacing the missing playlist should sort things out but if problems persist then have a look at this troubleshooting page for the 1428 error: Error 1415, 1417, 1418, or 1428 when restoring or updating an iPod in iTunes 7 or later

Ipod Mini --Songs Won't Sync To Ipod, But They Show Up In My Library..Help!

OK, all my songs went missing off of my mini and I can't get them to sync back on but they are still in my library... and now when I try to connect the ipod into itunes and connect my ipod, an error messege comes up, something about playlists.. but im mainly just concerned on trying to get my library back!
"Songs on the ipod "Name Of Ipod" cannot be updated because the playlists selected for syncing no longer exist."
I have done the 5 R's but nothing worked, I also tried restoring my ipod but it gets stuck in the middle and i get an error message for that too.
"the ipod "Name Of Ipod" could not be restored an unknow error occured (1428)."
and i cannot call apple to help b/c my ipod is over a year old and they will charge a fee for a service call....
I also recently updated to the newest version of Itunes.
CAN SOME ONE HELP PLEASE, THANK YOU!
ipod mini Windows XP
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Just so you know...if you do indeed have a mini (and are not confusing it with a Nano) then you have post in the wrong forum. This is the 2nd gen nano forum and if you do have a Nano you're still in the wrong forum since you stated that yours is over a year old and the 2nd gen is not a year old yet.
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