Same songs always sync?

I hope someone can help me, when I plug in my touch itunes always syncs my new songs, and the SAME old ones. Even when I don't have any new music, it syncs the same set of old songs. Does anyone know why this is occuring? Bad playlist? Bad rip of a CD?

This happened on mine too and someone else told me the answer.
It has to do with the album artwork. Try clearing the artwork. Highlight the songs that are doing it, and then right click and select "clear album artwork".
Once you have done that right click again and select get info and click the artwork area and select artwork and delete the artwork from there as well.
Try resyncing to see if it fixed it. When I did it it took a few tries on some of the songs to get it to work right.
Then you can try to add the artwork back in through itunes.
Goodluck

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-G

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When I want to listen to one of my play list (on shuffle or not) it always plays the same song over and over and does not go to the next song in the list.
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