Our ipods wont sync purchased music since the itunes update

After our most recent itunes update, our purchased music doesn't sync with our ipods. You must click on the song and drag it to the playlist you want. Also, we are unable to fine a sort feature that shows purchaced music by most recent purchace, only by artist. What is the fix for this, or is it a simple setting change?

Hello AnthonyHamilton,
The following article can help get iTunes to recognize your iPhone again.
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
Cheers,
Allen

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I have a shuffle but my sister has a non-Apple MP3 player. How do I take music from my library that i purchased and add it to her non-apple mp3 player?

You would have to read the directions that came with the MP3 player to learn how to put music on it.
itunes syncs Apple devices.

After having to get a new computer, I tunes repeatedly asks to authorize the computer to play/sync purchased music. However, ITunes is saying that the computer is already authorized. What do I do?

After having to get a new computer, I tunes repeatedly asks to authorize the computer to play/sync purchased music. However, ITunes is saying that the computer is already authorized. What do I do?

You can transfer all the iTunes purchased music from the iPod Touch to your new computer.
From iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer:
If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod has your purchased content from the iTunes Store, you can transfer the content to a computer that is authorized for your Apple ID.
Note: This option only works for content you purchased from the iTunes Store (as opposed to content from other sources, such as CDs you may have imported). For content you did not purchase from the iTunes Store, synchronization occurs in one direction only. This means your content can be copied from a computer to your iOS device, but cannot be copied from your device to a computer.
Open iTunes.
From the Store menu, choose Authorize Computer.
In the dialog that appears, the Apple ID button is selected by default. If you have an AOL account, select AOL.
Enter your Apple ID or AOL account and password. Then, click the Authorize button.
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HT201272 What does download all mean on my purchased music from the iTunes Store app?

What does download all mean on my purchased music from the iTunes Store app?

Assuming you are in a region where you are allowed to redownload your past music purchases, delete the broken tracks only from your iTunes library, go to the iTunes Store home page, click the Purchased link from the Quick Links section in the right-hand column, then select Music and Not on this computer. You should find download links for your tracks there.
If the problem persists, or that facility is not yet available in your region, contact the iTunes Store support staff through the report a problem links in your account history, or via Contact Support.
BTW, are these all recent purchases (last 8 weeks or so) or does it affect older tracks also?
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HT201272 why can't I re-download already purchased music from the itunes store?

why can't I re-download already purchased music from the itunes store?

What country are you in ? Re-downloading music isn't currently possible in all countries (the record companies need to agree to it for each country). If you are in a country where music can be re-downloaded, then if the tracks are still in the store then they should show under the Purchased link under Quicklinks on the right-hand side of the iTunes store home page on your computer's iTunes.

HT2953 my ipod wont sync with music on my pc

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Hello dihogwild,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
iTunes: Syncing media content to iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1351
Best of luck,
Mario

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chrooting in and running that is the correct solution, but you need to do it from an Arch install disk.
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Iphone wont sync purchased music to iTunes

Hello!
I recently got a iTunes gift card that I redeemed with my iPhone and purchanced 2 songs. When I sync my phone to my iTunes it gives me a warning message stating:
"Some of the purchased items on the iPhone "Katie's iPhone". including "Addicted". could not be transfered to your iTunes library because you are not authorized for them on this computer.
Would you like to authorize this computer for items purchased from the iTunes store?" So I hit Authorize and log it with my Apple ID, it says accesing music store and then comes up with another notice saying,
"This computer is already authorized." So I hit ok and then it continues to sync my phone. But when I go to my Purchased, neither song is there and they aren't in my library.
I have tried going to the music store and going under my account but neither purchase is there either. Only on my iphone do they exsist.
I have tried unauthorizing the computer and reauthorizing but the same thing happenes.
I have the most recent software for both iTunes and iPhone. I'm stumped.
Any ideas? Please and thank you.

I have had to figure this out every time since I don't sync my iPhone that often. I have another option to fix specifically music from iTunes on a PC platform not syncing up to the iPhone. Just think that two people need to DIRECTLY speak to one another. iTunes doesn't seem to get that music in a sub-folder of your Music folder on your hard drive is actually music you'd like to sync to your iPhone. Huh, what the heck is wrong with you Apple? The only way I ever fixed this problem is figure out which folder your iTunes program is reading and then copy paste all your music from one folder into the folder that iTunes "gets" i.e. is reading and linked to the correct folder on your hard drive. And this is only a problem because Apple is an a**hole (and so are PC platform companies) and wants you to buy their computers/laptops to sync up with iPhones seamlessly. If you have a PC you’re SOL and have to deal with annoying crap all day long. That is the end all, be all of it all. Tell Apple to get a clue and stop being jerk offs by making their software/hardware compatible with all others. The old feud between Apple and PCs and vice versa is just screwing us consumers and I’m sick of this crap. We consumers shouldn’t have all this aggravation because two large corporate D bags can’t get along like mature adults.

Ipod Wont Sync My Music in itunes

Ok big problem. I have all my music saved onto a 120Gig Western digital Portable Hard drive. i have an 80gig ipod. ive had it for about 5-6 months. i am now having a problem where it wont sync. what happends is that all of my music is in the itunes library. when i try to sync my ipod, none of the music syncs and all of the locations of the original file become lost. when i go into my hard drive and look, all of the files are missing. but when i either unplug the hard drive or restart my comp all of my music is there again. if i try again it does the same thing over and over. any suggestions? t would be appreciated. thanks.

In answer to your last question, no - your iPod is not a goner, but you need to work out what has happened first so that it doesn't happen again. I'm guessing that if you look at "Other" on your iPod you may find it's quite large.
Look on your iPod, go to the Settings menu and choose the About option; on that first display the graphic should show lots of blue (audio), some darker blue (video), some yellow/orange (photos if you have any) and a small amount of orange/red (other). That's the sequence, don't worry if the colours are slightly off or not there. If the last one - other is larger than the audio then that's where your storage has gone!
I still think that your PC has allocated a different letter to the external hard drive compared to when you previously added the music. Then, when the iPod cannot find the music on your PC when synced, it moves the songs to "other". Have you checked to make sure there are no "rogue" drive letters still allocated and have you ruled out the possibility of connecting the hard drive in another sequence when connecting up other USB devices? (As I mentioned in my last post.) Once you have done that, then look in iTunes.
If I understand you correctly, only some of the songs (in iTunes) have an exclamation mark against them, while some do not, is that correct? If so, it means that iTunes cannot find the location of ones with exclamation marks. So look at some of the songs that do not have an exclamation mark and try the *Get info/Where* to find out where iTunes thinks they are. Then check to see if the same drive letter is allocated to the hard drive when you connect it. They should be the same letter, are they?
If not, that's been the problem. If they are the same, try "asking" iTunes to see if it can now find the location of one of the missing tracks. (It's possible of course, that some newer added songs were added after the drive letter changed and this will be a problem, but let's hope not!)
So, what's the situation now? If you think the problem is a changed drive letter, make sure that the correct drive letter is now allocated and then ask iTunes to find the missing songs. (Unfortunately, this might be on a song-by-song basis!)
Once you find the missing songs, (or if you don't you will just have to import them again into iTunes.) and your iTunes is now complete again, it's time to sort out the iPod.
Connect up the iPod and on the iTunes Summary screen, use the Restore function. This will restore your iPod to its factory settings and remove everything from it, thus freeing up the missing storage space. then a fresh Sync will add everything back onto the iPod again. As you can appreciate, all this will take a bit of time, which is why you need to understand what happened so you don't have to go through this again.
Let us know how you get on.
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HT1386 I have a ipod nano older version and I can't sync my music to the iTunes site to change or delete or add anything to it? What can I do? The iPod works fine and I use when I am at the gym.

I have an older version 1.1.3 iPod nano 4 gig and when I open iTunes I can't view my music list or change or delete any I have on the iPod.
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Go here:
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and follow the instructions to report the issue to the iTunes Store.
Regards.

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