Nothing showing on my ipod

all my music is on the computer and plays, but when disconnecting my ipod from the computer my ipod is empty...help please!

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Nothing shows on my ipod classic screen

I can not get anything to show up on my ipod classic screen. I tried resetting my ipod and still nothing shows up on my screen, not even the Apple logo. I wonder if the battery is dead.

If the battery is "dead" (as in "fully drained", or empty), you will need to leave it on charge for at least thirty minutes before it shows any signs of life. Then, let it fully charge.
If that is not the issue, try leaving the iPod alone and unplugged for a few days (painful, I know). If the iPod is stuck doing something, but unable to turn on the screen, leaving it alone will cause the battery to empty out. Then, go for the "empty battery" option of recharging, as above.

ITunes successfully syncs iPod with no errors, but nothing shows up on iPod

I plug in my new 80g iPod to by synced, and iTunes "successfully" syncs the iPod.
I look on my iPod to see if the songs were transfered and my iPod is still completely blank!
So I plug in my iPod again to see if I can find a problem, and the "Capacity" bar on the bottom of the iPod screen in iTunes shows all my music and video file space as 'Other' data.
What is going on here?
I tried to restore the iPod and the same thing happens.

Hi!
I got the same problem since today.
My Ipod contains 74,37Gb in total and Itunes says 56,6 PHOTOS, 61,66 OTHER and 12,66 FREE SPACE. But this afternoon I saw I had about 700 Mb free space. I don't know what happened today, but I can only see the PHOTOS on my Ipod, no music and no video's.
Can't find the solution...
Best regards,
JJ

Yesterday i sync music to my ipod touch from iTunesn but nothing showed up in the 'recently added' folder. now today neither my computer or iTunes is recognizing the ipod. I uninstalled iTunes and reinstalled it and restart the computer

Yesterday i synced my music to my ipod touch from iTunes. the musice went on but nothing showed up on the ipod in the 'recently added' folder. now today i went to connect it to the laptop and neither my computer or iTunes recognized the ipod. 1st a message showed up saying an ipod was detected but cuddn't be identified so reconnect and when i did nothing showed up again. i have uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes and restarted the computer a number of times but the ipod still wont show up. Can anybody help?

Here:
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
or
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Device not recognized in iTunes for Mac OS X
Does the iPod charge?
Have you tried another cable?
Another computer to help determine if you have an iPod or computer problem?

After restoring my ipod, nothing shows up when I sync it back up.

After restoring my ipod, nothing shows up when I sync it back up - why?

Have you double checked to make sure content is still configured to sync to your iPod via its Music, Podcasts,Photos, etc., configuration tabs in iTunes?
To access these tabs, plug your iPod in and select it from under Devices in the left hand pane of iTunes. Over to the right should be multiple tabs for the different kinds of content you can sync to the Nano. See this article for more information and assistance.
iTunes: Syncing media content to iOS devices and iPod
Make sure that you also don't have the Manually manage music option enabled from under the iPod's Summary tab if you want your iPod to sync with iTunes instead manually adding and removing content from the device.
B-rock

Water splashed my iPod 4th generation an worked initially, but now when it is plugged in it sounds like it is powering up but nothing shows on screen, do I need a new LCD screen?

Some water got on my iPod touch 4th generation and when plugged into iTunes it is recognized but nothing shows up on the screen. Does this mean that I need to replace the LCD screen?

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
If still problem, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store since it appears you have a hardware problem.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
Apple will exchange your iPod for a refurbished one for $199 if a 64 GB one and $99 for the others. They do not fix yours.
Apple - iPod Repair price
A third-party place like the following maybe less. Google for more.
iPhone Repair, Service & Parts: iPod Touch, iPad, MacBook Pro Screens

Hi, when i plug my iPod mini into my lap top nothing shows up on my screen but yet the device still charges? help

hi, when i plug my iPod mini into my lap top nothing shows up on my screen but yet the device still charges? help

Hello rkguy71,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information, take a look at:
iTunes: iPod not recognized in iTunes and Mac desktop
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1410
Have a nice day,
Mario

My ipod touch 4th gen when i tried to update my apps at the app store i touched updates but nothing shows up so i can't update my apps what should i do pls help me.

help me my apps won't update when i opened the app store and tap updates nothing shows up i can't update my apps.

The backup that iTunes makes does not include synced media like apps and music. Se the following for what it does contain.
iTunes: About iOS backups
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946You can redownload iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

Movies and TV Shows Missing form iPod menu -- what's up with that?

I purchased my fist movie and TV episode last night to see how well I will like them on my iPod classic. I am connecting to the most up to date version of iTunes on my IBM/Win XP computer.
I watched the episode (Journeyman's first episode -- missed it on Monday...it's not bad) and was pleased. Then watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- also enjoyable even at the small size (especially the opening sequence which emulates "home movie" style in a very small frame).
Near the end of the movie, my iPod battery was giving up the ghost, so I paused the movie and plugged in. After waiting out the "Do not disconnect..." syncing process the main menu finally appeared on the iPod -- but the Movie and TV Shows selections were conspicuously missing from the menu! I have not seen my Movie/TV episode since.
They are in the iTunes library, obviously, but they simply never show up in the iPod menu. So far I have sync'd a number of times -- the sync settings were originally set by default to sync all songs, podcasts, TV Shows, Movies, Songs, etc... I tried "tweaking" these but to no avail. All syncs result in no Movie or TV Shows on the iPod menu.
Most recently I tried deleting all material from the iPod and then re-syncing all material back to the iPod (no help) and lastly I tried resetting to factory default settings (which originally seemed to work just fine) still to no avail.
When I select Settings >> Main Menu ... from the iPod main menu, the configuration screen also does not contain options for Movies or TV Shows.
It all makes me say "Hmmmm...." and leaves me reluctant to waste money on video media (though thank god my Tiki TV podcasts are still coming through just fine ... no Lala? I don't think so!). Nope, check that! video podcasts are not coming through either. GEEZE!
Has anyone experienced this before? Again, I've updated all iPod and iTunes software. Nothing "funky" seemed to happen to cause the problem, other than it conincided with plugging my iPod in (which kicks off the blasted sync process -- geeze these settings are a pain...I'd prefer the blasted thing to just sync on demand) >:-( Any help/suggestions would be most appreciated. Without a solution, I'll never be able to keep up with Journeyman!
Thanks
NK
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wjdavis wrote:
I can't remember exactly what I did. I do know that when I started it up, I couldn't find the Setup Assistant on the hard drive,
No, once a user has been created, you can't run Setup Assistant (without erasing and reinstalling).
What do you recommend for fixing this?
Here's what's happened:
When you first start up a Mac and create the first user account, OSX assigns it UID (User ID) #501. The next one gets #502, etc. Those UIDs (not the user name) are what control permission to files.
You can see those numbers via System Prefs > Users & Groups; click the padlock and enter your Admin password, then select an account and right-click it, and select Advanced Options. Do not change anything on that window.
So . . . assume your old iMac had a user 501 with the data you want; it's identified that way on the backups.
When the Apple Store started up your new Mac, and created their account, it became #501.
When you used Migration Assistant to transfer the 501 account from the iMac's backups, OSX copied everything there "as is" except it had to change the 501 to 502.
The new 502 account has all the right permissions to things now in it's home folder, but the backups belong to user 501.
Have you added much to the Mac since you did the migration? Have you done any new backups? If not, while it's a bit of a hassle, one fix would be to create yet another user account temporarily. Make it an Admin account. Log on to it and delete all the other accounts. Then migrate the accounts from your backups; this time there won't be a conflict, so OSX won't have to change the UUID(s).
But if you have done new backups, this won't work, since Migration Assistant automatically uses the most recent backup. There's a way around that, but it's a bit (or more) tedious.
Clear as mud?

My ipod 4th gen gets wiped clean of music anytime I sync. it then only redownloads some of the music in the library and wont upload missing songs. They show on the ipod grayed out. How do I get this to stop? re-uploading takes 4 hours.

my ipod 4th gen gets wiped clean of music anytime I sync. it then only redownloads some of the music in the library and wont upload missing songs. They show on the ipod grayed out. How do I get this to stop? re-uploading takes 4 hours and is never completed. I only get some of the 6000+ songs I have. This started when I updated to IOS5 i think.

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

Soundtracks not showing up in iPod artist

It seems I've tried EVEYTHING under the sun for this. I have multiple soundtracks and none of the songs show up under the Artist section of my ipod touch. I can see this in the Album section. I've edited Artist, Album Artist, checked and uncheck Compilation and all tracks individually and together.
It edits it on the itunes screen on my laptop, the ipod does it's little syncing loading symbol but nothing changes on the ipod. I even edited the album name which changed on the computer screen but on the ipod it still says the old album name. Example: Moulin Rouge soundtrack would be titled as "Moulin Rouge (2001) ranamed it to just Moulin Rouge. On the computer it says Moulin Rouge. One the ipod it sayd Moulin Rouge (2001).
So not only is nothing showing up in the artist section (even if I make every song artist Moulin Rouge Cast) the album name isn't even changing. I'm super organized with my media and this is frustrating me to no end.

There are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song is incorrectly marked as part of a compilation (and you have Compilations enabled on the iPod) or 2) the song has no album name associated with it.
if the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. If you are using iTunes 8, in the the multiple items info box the compilations setting is in the "Options" tab. Setting "Compilations" on your iPod main menu prevents you getting lots of single artist entries when you load an album by various artists.
Also if the tracks are missing an Album name in the Info tab, this information needs to be filled in. The no album one is a bit quirky as the songs will appear under certain circumstances (for instance I read somewhere that if you have at least two tracks with different album names the rest will appear), however the simplest remedy is just add None or Miscellaneous to all the blanks in place of a title. See this link for more detail: I don't see some of my songs when browsing by artist on my iPod

HT1212 itunes could not be connected to ipad because it is locked with a passcode, i must enter a passcode on the ipad before it can be used with itunes but all i see is "iPad is disabled connect to itunes" I have a passcode but nothing shows on the scree

itunes could not be connected to ipad because it is locked with a passcode, i must enter a passcode on the ipad before it can be used with itunes but all i see is "iPad is disabled connect to itunes" I have a passcode but nothing shows on the screen

iOS: Device disabled after entering wrong passcode
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
How can I unlock my iPad if I forgot the passcode?
http://tinyurl.com/7ndy8tb
How to Reset a Forgotten Password for an iOS Device
http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-a-Forgotten-Password-for-an-iOS-Device
Using iPhone/iPad Recovery Mode
http://ipod.about.com/od/iphonetroubleshooting/a/Iphone-Recovery-Mode.htm
Saw this solution on another post about an iPad in a school enviroment. Might work on your iPad so you won't lose everything.
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‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes
Today I met my match with an iPad that had a passcode entered too many times, resulting in it displaying the message ‘iPad is disabled – Connect to iTunes’. This was a student iPad and since they use Notability for most of their work there was a chance that her files were not all backed up to the cloud. I really wanted to just re-activate the iPad instead of totally resetting it back to our default image.
I reached out to my PLN on Twitter and had some help from a few people through retweets and a couple of clarification tweets. I love that so many are willing to help out so quickly. Through this I also learned that I look like Lt. Riker from Star Trek (thanks @FillineMachine).
Through some trial and error (and a little sheer luck), I was able to reactivate the iPad without loosing any data. Note, this will only work on the computer it last synced with. Here’s how:
1. Configurator is useless in reactivating a locked iPad. You will only be able to completely reformat the iPad using Configurator. If that’s ok with you, go for it – otherwise don’t waste your time trying to figure it out.
2. Open iTunes with the iPad disconnected.
3. Connect the iPad to the computer and wait for it to show up in the devices section in iTunes.
4. Click on the iPad name when it appears and you will be given the option to restore a backup or setup as a new iPad (since it is locked).
5. Click ‘Setup as new iPad’ and then click restore.
6. The iPad will start backing up before it does the full restore and sync. CANCEL THE BACKUP IMMEDIATELY. You do this by clicking the small x in the status window in iTunes.
7. When the backup cancels, it immediately starts syncing – cancel this as well using the same small x in the iTunes status window.
8. The first stage in the restore process unlocks the iPad, you are basically just cancelling out the restore process as soon as it reactivates the iPad.
If done correctly, you will experience no data loss and the result will be a reactivated iPad. I have now tried this with about 5 iPads that were locked identically by students and each time it worked like a charm.
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Try it and good luck. You have nothing more to lose if it doesn't work for you.
 Cheers, Tom

I can't sync a TV show to my ipod touch

I can't sync a tv show to my ipod touch. I checked all the settings, and tried to manually drag the show to my ipod but still nothing. A message box keeps popping up saying," "Magic Bullet" was not copied to the ipod "Bee's" because it cannot by played on this iPod." Any help is appreciated.

This is what it says. You don't have to convert it.
All HD purchases from the iTunes Store also include an iPod/iPhone-compatible Standard Definition version to accompany the HD version. When syncing an HD purchase from the iTunes Store, iTunes will automatically sync the SD video for devices that require SD content.
If this doesn't work, I don't know what the problem is. You could try deleting from iTunes and re-downloading the item from the store. (in iTunes: STORE > Purchased > Download Previous Purchases.)

NOthing shows up after iPhoto asked to upgrade thumbnails

iPhoto 6.0.5 asked to upgrade my thumbnails. I told it to go ahead and now NOTHING shows up in my library. All my photos, books, cards, calendars and slideshows are gone. I must have them back. Please help. All of my files are still in my photo library directory. when I try to open each individual file it tells me my files is corrupt. How can I rebuild my library?
Jaime

TD,
regarding:
Have the affected photos ever been stored or moved via a disk or flash drive that is formatted for Windows?
No. The photos were the original .tif files I scanned before adding to iPhoto.
It is all very weird. I had mutliple things going on:
- syncing iPod with iPhoto for first time (new 5.5G 30GB iPod)
- iPhoto "upgrading" my thumbnails
- podcast streaming in the background (twit)
I am back to normal after restoring from backup. I still have all of the folders and files from my corrupted iPhoto library and I can view the originals in Preview.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I am not sure if I should mark this thread answered since I still don't know why my iPhoto library was corrupted.
1.25G4 Mac mini| 512MB RAM | 80GB HDD | Superdrive | 512 Mb Shufle Mac OS X (10.4.7) iPhoto 6.0.5

Ipod is synced but not all music will play. The music shows on the Ipod but not highlighted and cannot click to play.

Ipod is synced but not all music will play. The music shows on the Ipod but not highlighted and cannot click to play.

Provided the music plays in iTunes on the computer
Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync/delete all music and resync
To delete all music go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage>Music>Tap edit in upper right and then tap the minus sign by All Music
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

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