Problems manually syncing my music

I just downloaded the new version of itunes and now i cant sync my music to my library, I have it on manually sync so i can choose which songs i want anyone know what's happening and how i can fix this?

It sounds like the the songs you see in the iTunes library are just pointers to the real locations to where the songs are located. However, iTunes can't find the real location. Thus, you need to find/add the real song files.

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I used to be synced to a different iTunes on a different computer. Now that I have my own laptop with my on music library I'm trying to sync it to my phone. I have to do it manually because I don't have enough space on my phone to sync my entire music library. But every time I try to sync it, it will tell me that it's unable to sync because it needs "at least 3.something more GB of space in order to sync" and every time I unselect an artist it will say it needs more space until I have barely any of my music selected. Why does it need so much free space? Like it requires approx 5GB of free space in order to sync my music and I don't understand why. I've never had this issue before. I even imported all of my pictures to my laptop so I could delete them to make room for my music. Please help me.

Hi there Sarbunn,
You may find the information in the article below helpful if there is not enough free space on your device to sync.
If you get a "Not enough free space" alert on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
-Griff W.

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I got an iPod nano 3rd generation for x-mas. I have all my music on my iTunes and can listen to it on my computer. The problem is that i can't sync the music I have onto my iPod. I have tried re-installing the entire thing and had all of my music coverted once more onto iTunes but I still can't sync my music onto it. When I go into file and look for the sync music to iPod, its gray. On the device section, when I right click it, all I get is eject. I have no summary tab. My brother has an iPod and has tried to figure it out but so far no luck. Any advice would be much appreciated as to the fact that I am getting very, very frustrated.
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Mijn advies: terug naar versie 1.0. Tenzij je versie 1.1 nodig hebt, natuurlijk (voor radio o.i.d.). Of wachten op versie 1.2
Ik heb zojuist versie 1.0 geherinstalleerd, en alles werkt nu prima. En telkens als iTunes vraagt of ik de nieuwste versie wil installeren klik ik op NEE.

My music isnt syncing to my iphone I have tried manually syncing my music and it worked but for some reason it wont do it on all songs this is extremely frustrating!

Ive tried and tried but the **** thing wont let me sync all my music, if this continues I will just have to return the iphone.

What kind of card is it ? If it's a debit card then I don't think that they are still accepted as a valid payment method - they are not listed on this page and there have been a number of posts recently about them being declined
If it's a credit card then is it registered to exactly the same name and address (including format and spacing etc) that you have on your iTunes account, it was issued by a bank in your country and you are currently in that country ? If it is then you could check with the card issuer to see if it's them that are declining it, and if not then try contacting iTunes support and see if they know why it's being declined : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/ - click on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page, then Account Management

Problem with syncing ipod

Hi, I just bougt the new ipod and am experiencing problems when syncing my music. when transferring my library (10gb) the progress bar in itunes freezes at random and does not continue transferring songs. everything works perfect with my nano, that's why i suppose there should't be anything wrong with my imac. anyone have a similar problem?

I'm experiencing the same exact issues with a brand new iPod and a 40 gig iPod non Photo. iTunes will copy tunes along to a random point - stall - and then machine locks up until iPod is disconnected. Upon disconnecting iPod it becomes corrupt and needs to be reformatted (flashing folder error, etc.).
This is the first issue I've ever had with an iPod and I think there must be something software/firmware related that is plaguing us.
None of the disk mode tricks work consistently either - it's just a loop until you finally get all the tracks to copy over.
Apple "Genius" told me that the hard drive was bad on my 40 gig - but now that I see the brand new out of the box 1 hour iPod is also having troubles over USB I think there's more to this... help!

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Hello,
I just purchased a new iphone today and have not been able to manually sync my music from my library into my phone. Th manual sync option does not even appear when the phone is connected to itunes. (Quite odd.) Only two options appear in the summary: "Auto Sync" and "Sync only checked songs". What is wrong? Please help!!!! I've been staring at this computer screen for hours trying to get that option to appear. Thanks....

Have you installed the current iTunes version, and is your iPhone running the current firmware version which is 1.1.3?
The manually manage music and videos option still requires a sync - it just provides for dragging content from your iTunes library to the iPhone instead of using a Playlist or the sync only checked songs and video option.

IPhone not syncing all music

I recently got iTunes Match and don't understand why I can't have it enabled and sync all of the selected music I wanted. All of my music appears to be availible in the cloud as I have the option to download on my phone over WiFi which would take forever. I have tried manually syncing my music and I selected all of my playlists and only ten or less songs are syncing to the phone after sync is "completed." I have tried this with iTunes Match on and off on my phone. I'm frustrated because I got an iPhone so that this process would be easy. Any help would be appreciated.

Called Apple, somehow most of the songs on my iTunes got "unchecked" and only the few "checked" songs that were left were syncing onto my iPhone.

When I enable imatch on my iPhone 4s it takes approximately 30 minutes before other data fills 13.2gb of usable data. This problem does not occur when I manually sync music to my phone. Is this a common bug, and if so; is there a fix?

When I enable imatch on my iPhone 4s it takes approximately 30 minutes before other data fills 13.2gb of usable data on the phone. This problem does not occur when I manually sync music to my phone only when I access imatch. Is this a common bug, and if so; is there a fix?

yes it is. you can sign out of itunes account then sign back in. use http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1311 to sign out.

I have searched for solutions to the error 13019, but everyone with the problem doe'st manually manage their music like I do. I really don't want to have to sync and gothrough that mess. Help? solution for manually managing videos and music!!

I have searched for solutions to the error 13019, but everyone with the problem doesn't manually manage their music like I do. I really don't want to have to sync and go through that mess. Please Help! solution for manually managing videos and music!!

- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store and hear what they hae to say. It is free.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
you can turn on Assistive Touch it adds the Power and other buttons to the iPods screen. Settings>General>Accessibility>Assistive Touch

Help, I can't sync any music to my iPhone 5s or iPad 2 ! :( it says it's finished sync but the music is greyed out and not on my devices.. I've tried unchecking the music and doing it manually. Nothing works. I took it to Apple store Robina no help..

Help, I can't sync any music to my iPhone 5s or iPad 2 ! it says it's finished sync but the music is greyed out and not on my devices.. I've tried unchecking the music and doing it manually. Nothing works. I took it to Apple store Robina no help..

So I have found a common denominator to this phenomenon. After having the same problem, I started to recopy my playlist of 500+ songs in groups of 10-20, 30+, 75+, and then over a 100+. Any music I have purchased from iTunes won't copy, but everything else did. Unsure if I made a playlist called "Purchased" at some point or this is an iTunes default, I also noticed it had some of the songs contained in my other playlist and was showing on my iPhone. Regardless of what I did such as dragging music from that playlist to the other and clearing songs from that playlist, I removed it altogether from the iPhone itself vs. doing through iTunes. After that, music copied fine to my playlist.
So, my theory is that iTunes is getting tripped up on purchased tracks already showing on the phone and all songs are showing grayed out/dotted circle because iTunes can't resolve the conflict with purchased tracks.
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I am unable to sync new music. Reformatted I Pod now I can't sync old music either, either automatically or manually. Is it possible to download all music over again without being charged for it? I think the issue is I moved the location of my music

I am una
le to sync any music from I tunes. The problem started when I could not download new music because for some reason I moved the location of the music. At least the e/m says I did. I don't remember doing that. I decided to reformat my I pod and now I can sync my old music either, manually or automatically. I was wondering if I can delete all my music from I tunes & start over with new downloads? Will I get charged again?

Ok, got new phone and it worked fine..at first. Now I am getting the same error. I also notice that the iphone goes from saying "sync in progress" to back to the home screen with the icons. And then I get the message "could not sync phone - device not connected"
I am getting seriously frustrated. The Apple tech support people have been ZERO help. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Itunes twice. I have even gone so far as doing a CLEAN install of OS X on my IMAC. Now I have the smae problems as before. Anyone have any idea what the problem could be?

Itunes will not manually sync music with my Iphone 5

I am trying to manually sync music from ITunes and my Iphone5. From the Info screen I have selected the option to manually sync music and video files. From the music screen I have selected the option to sync selected artists, etc. I selected some of my music and was conscious to leave room for all the other items on my phone (per the storage bar at the bottom of the screen). When I select 'Sync' at the bottom of the screen, ITunes goes through all of the steps to sync and seems to complete. However nothing is copied over to my phone and I do not see any of the titles being transferred in the status bar. Additionally, I am receiving an error message that states I do not have enough disk space to complete the transfer and that an additional 4GB is required. However, I have a very small amount of music scheduled to transfer and the status bar that tracks available space still has over 7GB available with my selections made. I appear to have ample disk space yet the phone will not update any music at all. Please help if you can. Thank you.

I have the exact same problem. My Iphone is always synced by connecting to my computer because I don't want anything on the cloud. All of the sudden the yellow "other" part of the bar showing what's on my phone will fill up the right half of the bar even though I haven't added anything. I have emptied the phone of all it's content one category at a time to try to identify what the "OTHER" is. I remove all the apps, them Music and so on. It doesn't work and the yellow bar stays showing it is taking up half the space on my phone. So then I put the settings back the way they were, which should leave about a quarter of my storage space free. Then I do a reset of my phone and after two hours ( that's how long it takes) The "other" yellow bar goes back down to taking up about 1/20 of space on my IPhone even though I haven't made any changes. The only reason I sync at all is to add music to my phone that I've added to my main library on ITunes. This is so frustrating and a huge wast of my time! Can someone tell me haw to stop this please?

Add even one song to iPhone (manual sync) and now iPhone erases rest of music library?

Many thanks for your attention.
This has been happening more and more - especially with more recent iOS and iTunes updates.
I long have kept many Movies and much Music on my iPod or (now) iPhone.
In the past, whenever I wanted to add a new song to the iPhone, I would just drag and drop the song into it from my desktop.
Almost all of my music I converted over from CDs I own. Same with the movies.
I almost never buy music or movies from the iTunes store.
I have always had iTunes Sync set to Manual.
Until a couple years ago, no problems.
Now, sometimes I drag one film over or add one new song - and the rest of my music library (and all the movies) on my iPhone are seemingly automatically erased. Poof - they're all gone!
It doesn't happen each time - sometimes the song or songs are copied over and my iPhone music library is added to - as I planned.
But sometimes, I perform the same step - and the new song is added - but all (over 4000) of the songs already in library, all the playlists, etc., vanish.
It takes a while to add over 4000 songs to the iPhone (again and again). I had read over last couple years of bugs that would be fixed, etc., but it seems to be much worse now, not better.
Except - the few songs I once downloaded from the iTunes store. Those appear - ready to play yet - but ready to be downloaded again.
I have tried several things to combat this - deleted Pref files, etc. But there is no pref file on a Mac for the iPhone. Only for iTunes.
I should say I do not keep an iTunes Library on my computer. It is mostly empty (to save HD space). As my iPhone is 64GB - that would be 64GB of needless space taken up - when I only listed to music or watch movies via my iPhone. Up until about two years ago - this was never an issue though, since back to the first iPod. And I have always had my iTunes set to Manual Sync.
I do not use iCloud to backup my music.
I would just manually add a song or a movie to iPhone via my desktop.
Any suggestions to stop this from repeatedly happening welcome. My thanks in advance for any help.

Many thanks for reply and suggestions, Lawrence.
If a corrupt music database on iPhone - why was this happening on iPods (in the past) as well?
I have done complete Restores and Re-installs of iOS in the past. But this problem keeps popping up.
But - will try your suggestion.
It seems to be connected to Apple moving to iCloud and people backing up their music there. Also, many (or most) people also keep all their music on their Mac. I don't do either. iPhone always recognizes the few songs or films I downloaded from Store (they are also erased - but I have the joy of the option to download them again).
But - most of my music and movies come from my own CD collection and my own DVD collection - not from iTunes Store.
Your Playlist of All Music suggestion. If I understand right, I would have to load all music to iTunes first (some 40GB?)
Then Sync.
But I don't want to keep all 40GB+ of music perpetually on Mac.

Problems with syncing music files.

Hi there, i have an Iphone 4 running IOS 7.0.4 and have been experiencing problems whilst attempting to sync music files onto my iphone.
The tracks i want are shown perfectly fine in my library and play perfectly well. My iphone is set to sync my whole library to the phone, but when i sync my phone, it says the songs i want are on the phone, but have grey dotted circles next to them. Then when i disconnect the phone from my computer, there is no sign of them. I have been experiencing this problem for about a day now and would really appreciate any help anyone can provide.
Many thanks,
Chris Kanikula

Hi Chris,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The grey dotted circle means the songs have not synced over to your iPhone.
Is it possible that you don't have enough room on your iPhone for your entire music library?
I would suggest following the instructions below to setup manual syncing, remove the songs that you are having issues with, and resync them.
Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
You can also download songs you have purchased directly to your iPhone:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Cheers,
Judy

Manually Sync Music

My iPod nano (3rd Gen) is having problems with the " manually sync music" option via iTunes. It is causing my computer to freeze up for a while and has not had the ablity for me to use the " manually sync music" option. Does anyone know how to use the " manually sync music" without crashing iTunes??
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I also am having this problemwith the new version of itunes. When I want to choose manually sync, itunes gves me this threatening windowsaying that all of my music will be taken off my ipod. I just want to add new songs just purchased!
Used to be that you could buy new songs, have your screen with the attached ipod open, and then drag and drop, but I am not seeing where I can do that any more. It looks like the connected ipod icon is at the top left hand, but it doesnt appear to have the drag and drop capability when I click on that screen. My recently purchased playlist remains blank!

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