Song count (e.g 2848 songs) is incorrect!

The problem I and some of my friends have been having with iTunes is that my library will say I have 2849 songs. But when I copy all of them to my Ipod, it switches to 2848. No one knows what happens to that one song... Checking if Itunes really did miss a song would be a long task. Also, when backing up the Ipod using different programs, it would seem that each program also gives a different song count. One program will say there are so many songs on your ipod, while the other will say there are only that many. Why do the song counts fluctuate? And should we be worried that our songs really are getting lost...

Most likely your songs are not getting lost, but some of them are in different formats. I have the original ipod and it actually shows a warning when I'm updating that says "The file blah blah will not be imported because files with the extension whatever cannot be played on your ipod." Check and see if any of your songs are a different format. They may be able to be played on your computer but not on the ipod.

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