Number of Songs Discrepancy between iTunes & iPhone

There are 1,437 songs in my ITunes Entire Music Library. Due to problems I was having with my iPhone, Apple had me restore my iPhone 5S to "factory" settings and then back-up my iPhone to one of my backups before my iPhone began having problems. My backups have had 1,437 songs for quite a long time. Now the number of songs on my iPhone 5S has 1,348 songs. Why? What can I do to get all my songs back on my iPhone? I tried "Transfer" purchases thinking it did not get my purchased songs, but it didn't change the number of songs. I just purchased a new iPad Air 2 today and set it up. It has 1,437 songs.

An easy route is to setup a Smart Playlist for each category - note 'matched' and 'uploaded' will both count towards your 25k limit, 'purchased' do not count.

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-after opening the iTunes folder look for the file that says iTunes library.itl or if you can't see that extenstion just look for a document looking thing in the iTunes folder that shows up as a database file
-double click the database file and boom iTunes should load your library without having to copy it to the computer
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Having sat here with a pen, paper and calculator it seems the problem occurs with the playlists that have songs already in other playlists that have been selected.
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I've been noticing a difference between the synched song counts that are displayed in iTunes/Devices on the "Music" tab, and the actual number of songs that are on my iPhone. Any idea why this is?

Go into iTunes, connect your iPhone, and select it in the sidebar under "Devices". In the main browser window, click on the Music tab. Under "Sync Music", see if it's set to sync everything or selected playlists. That's where you tell iTunes what to sync to the iPhone.
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Didn't really know how to word this but at the bottom of my iTunes it says I have 10,345 songs and it's 45.58 GB
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I'm looking around for ways to clear up my computer's hard drive, and typically it seems that my iLife libraries seem to be the bulk of it. The main problem is that iTunes claims that my iTunes Library size is some 21GB, when the size of the "iTunes Library" folder claims all the music accounts to 26GB. This doesn't include any content in the 'TV Shows' or 'Movies' folders.
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The stats at the bottom of the screen when you look at the Music section of your library are just for music, there are separate totals for Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, iTunes U, Audiobooks, Applications & Ringtones. When you look at *iTunes\iTunes Music* in Finder this will contain all the files from all the sections. It is also possible that you have at some point deleted files from iTunes without deleting them from the hard disk or manually placed files within the iTunes Music folders and then neglected to import them into iTunes. If you have any *iTunes LPs* these will count as a single file in the iTunes library but typically contain 100s of individual files (html, artwork, scripts etc.). I don't know about Macs, but on a PC if the library is also accessed by Windows Media Player then there can be artwork placed in album folders adding to the file count shown in the operating system.
In short there is no reason to expect the numbers & sizes to match. That said, it is still possible that there are files in your folders that are not in your library, and vice versa. The following from Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes should help you check for any discpreancies:
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List MIAs v1.2 - Lists files in your library that are not in your music folder.
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Number of Songs Discrepancy between iTunes & iPhone

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