Songs are on the ipod but just skips though all the songs

So my girlfriend pluged her ipod into her old imac and now it wont play any songs. It just sits their shuffling though all of them. I thought that the music was all deleted but then I plugged her ipod into my computer and it said that it still had 12.8 GB used. Can anyone help me with this problem. I cannot just restore the music files because they are gone on a different computer that is no longer working!!!

Have you had a chance to look at these troubleshooting pages? They may be of some help:
Troubleshooting songs that skip on iPod
iPod: Troubleshooting songs and audiobooks that won't play
If the iPod is connecting and showing up in iTunes and your computer, you could transfer the songs from it that would then let you restore. If you have any iTMS purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. A paragraph on it has been added to this article: Transfer iTunes Store purchases using iPod
The transfer of non iTMS content such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, this is just a small selection of what's available, they are generally quite straightforward. You can also read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
TuneJack Windows Only
iPod2PC Windows Only
iGadget Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
YamiPod Mac and Windows Versions
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
There is also a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows or a Mac. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod
Whichever of these retrieval methods you choose, keep your iPod in manual mode until you have reloaded your iTunes and you are happy with your playlists etc then it will be safe to return it auto-sync. I would also advise that you get yourself an external hard drive and back your stuff up, relying on an iPod as your sole backup is not a good idea and external drives are comparatively inexpensive these days, you can get loads of storage for a reasonable outlay.

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I recently changed to a new computer. Well, my questions is how are my songs are on my ipod but not in my library? i can play my songs but when i want to put the songs that are on my ipod in my library it will not work! what can i do???
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Check out the instructions/suggestions here.
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You cannot transfer the songs from the iPod back to the computer using iTunes.

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My iPod Mini continually skips tracks all the time every half a second. The only thing that stops it is if you press pause but once you press play off it goes again. This means noi music is able to be played because it's always skipping. The menu button works as does the backlight if you hold the menu button down. The enter button works and the touch pad navigation also works. Both skip buttons have no effect on the unstoppable skipping. Can anybody help or at least verify the problem with other users of simular problems and if they were able to fix them simply, without having to go to an Apple dealer (it's out of warrenty i think)Any help would be appreciated.

My iPod Mini continually skips tracks all the time
every half a second. The only thing that stops it is
if you press pause but once you press play off it
goes again. This means noi music is able to be played
because it's always skipping. The menu button works
as does the backlight if you hold the menu button
down. The enter button works and the touch pad
navigation also works. Both skip buttons have no
effect on the unstoppable skipping. Can anybody help
or at least verify the problem with other users of
simular problems and if they were able to fix them
simply, without having to go to an Apple dealer (it's
out of warrenty i think)Any help would be appreciated.
---thats what happened to mine, then it stopped working altogether. liek not playing songs at ALL. i have tryed reformating it, i finally got all the settings erased, but then it woulndt 'talk' to iTunes. it has been about 2 months and im still working on it. my suggestion is send it in beore it gets as bad as mine.
good luck!
-adair
no idea 1123 Windows XP haha
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You are not specific with your problem or errors but one thing that always throws people off is as follows:
When entering you're login name you must use the entire login with carrier name such as [email protected] The field defults to just your name but not the carrier name.

My friend sold me his iPod touch 3 gen 32gb but the problem is it's disabled an it ses to connect to iTunes an when I do connect it ses first I have to enter the password on the iPod but I can't cuz the screen stays the same what should I do

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HT1386 I am re-building my iTunes library, but still have all the content on my iPod Classic. I have just downloaded some songs from the store and want to add them to the iPod, BUT when i attempt this the message asks if I want to delete all content on t

I am rebuilding my iTunes library, but still have all the old content on my iPod Classic. I have just download some songs from the iStore and want to add them to the iPod, BUT when I try to sync it asks if I want to delete all content from the iPod and add only the material that I have just downloaded from the Store. I do not want to lose my old content, because it is very extensive.

You are trying to sync to other than the one iTunes library you can sync to. You can copy music from multiple library/computer if you use the manual method of syncing. That method is described here
iTunes: Syncing media content to iOS devices and iPod
If you want to make this computer/iTunes library your syncing computer/library you have to restore the iPod on this computer/library. Restoring erases the iPod.
You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:
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To copy other music to the computer see:
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HT1363 important photos are stored on ipod but I no longer have the laptop it was synced to can I retrieve them?

Hi I have a 1st Gen ipod and have photos of a family member who is no longer with us stored on it. I don't have the laptop I used to connect to this IPod any more. Can I retrieve the photos to a new computer or somewhere I could print them off?
Thanks in advance for any help. This really is important to me.

A "1st Gen ipod" did not have photo capability, so it must be at least an iPod Photo (4th gen iPod) or later. The information I provide below applies, as long as your iPod is NOT an iPod touch.
The iPod's screen is quite small, so when you sync photos to it, iTunes converts them to a special format that reduces the resolution of the photo to fit the small screen. This saves storage space used on iPod. If you were to transfer the image back to your computer, the low resolution would make it look horribly pixilated when blown up to computer display size. I think there are third-party utilities that can convert and transfer the images files back to the computer, but there is no way to do it using iTunes.
If you used a specific setting when syncing the photos to the iPod, then you can retrieve them at the original resolution. The setting is on the Photos tab for the iPod, in iTunes when you select the iPod in the sidebar, under DEVICES. It is a checkbox that says Include full-resolution photos. If that setting was enabled when you synced the photos to the iPod, then you will be able to retrieve them at the original full resolution.
What you do is Enable disk use, which is a setting on the Summary tab. This makes the iPod's storage appear as a "disk" to the system. You can then use your computer's OS to open the iPod, like it was a flash drive, to find a folder called Photos folder inside. In that folder, you can find any full resolution image files that were previously synced, which you can copy to your computer's hard drive. But again, that Include full-resolution photos setting needed to be enabled at the time you synced the photos to the iPod.

My iPod just skips through all the songs without playing them

The other day, I was listening to a playlist on my iPod Nano (first generation), and it just skipped over one of my favorite songs. I immediately reset my iPod and went back to the playlist, but this time, it wouldn't play any of the songs. The artwork, title, artist, etc came up for a second, then it would skip to the next song and do the same thing. I reset it a few times, updated iTunes, and updated my iPod, but nothing worked. I'm extremely disappointed because I'm pretty sure my iPod isn't under warranty anymore, but still, it hasn't even been two years since I purchased it. Is there any way I can fix the iPod? If not, could someone please tell me how I could contact Apple and possibly get a replacement? I understand that it'll be difficult sine it's no longer under warranty, but when I spend $250 on a product, I expect it to work for more than a year and a half. Thanks so much to anyone who can help.

DeepCove-r,
You can actually transfer your iPod songs to your computer.
First, you'll need to prevent iTunes from automatically syncing your iPod. To do that, follow these steps:
1 - Open iTunes.
2 - Connect your iPod to your computer.
3 - Basically as soon as your iPod begins to display "Do Not Disconnect", begin to press and hold the Ctrl and Shift keys together.
Continue to do this for perhaps about 20 seconds after your iPod appears in the Source List of iTunes (the left area).
After you've prevented iTunes from auto-syncing your iPod, click on it in the Source List, and under the "Summary" tab, select the option: "manually manage content on iPod".
Also, go to the Music, podcasts, etc. tabs, and deselect all check-boxes that say "Sync", to sync music, or podcasts.
Now, to save your changes, click the "Apply" button in the bottom-right corner of this screen.
Now, to transfer your iPod songs to your computer, there are a few different methods, but perhaps the most straight-forward way to do it would be to download a third-party program which can do this for you.
YamiPod is free, and commonly recommended for using with copying your iPod songs to your computer.
After you have those songs copied to your computer sucessfully, restore your iPod in iTunes.
-Kylene

Songs are on my iPod, but don't show up under the "Artist" heading

My problem is that all my music DOES import onto my iPod and work, but some songs do not appear in the "Artist" catagory. I can find the songs by looking through the "Album" catagory, but it doesn't work in Artist. Also, they cannot be found via the "Search" option. All the song data are correctly tagged and are correctly imported and such. The "Search" option works for other songs however.
If it will help, the artists are Green Day and Bryan Adams.
Also, some of my songs have album art downloaded for them, the majority come up on my iPod fine, except a certain few which just display as pitch black.
Any ideas?

There are usually two things that contribute to songs not appearing under Artist on the iPod, both due to information either in or missing from the Get Info>Info tab against the song in iTunes. 1) the song is incorrectly marked as part of a compilation (and you have Compilations enabled on the iPod) or 2) the song has no album name associated with it.
if the tracks are ticked in the Get Info>Info tab as part of a compilation, they will not appear under Artist on the iPod. Highlight a song in iTunes that you know is not appearing correctly on your iPod. Right click on it and choose Get Info and click the Info tab (alternatively choose Get Info from the File menu), if "Part of a Compilation" is marked untick it and afterwards update your iPod, you should find it now appears as normal. If you are using iTunes 8, in the the multiple items info box the compilations setting is in the "Options" tab. Setting "Compilations" on your iPod main menu prevents you getting lots of single artist entries when you load an album by various artists.
Also if the tracks are missing an Album name in the Info tab, this information needs to be filled in. The no album one is a bit quirky as the songs will appear under certain circumstances (for instance I read somewhere that if you have at least two tracks with different album names the rest will appear), however the simplest remedy is just add None or Miscellaneous to all the blanks in place of a title. See this link for more detail: I don't see some of my songs when browsing by artist on my iPod

Songs are on my iPod but no longer in iTunes

Hello everyone,
I just had some computer work done and had to re-install iTunes (the latest version). When I open it up it still shows all the song titles I had before and the correct number of songs. HOWEVER the majority of them won't play. When I try to it says 'file not located - would you like to search for it?' or something along those lines. It seems as though the only files it finds are from cd's I imported and podcasts. Basically I'm missing about 4500 songs, though the titles are there.
My iPod seemed to sync alright to iTunes and, luckily, all the songs are still on my iPod.
So here's the question: Is there a way to plug in your iPod and have the song files go INTO iTunes. Like I know they update each other with playlists, play counts etc. I'd really like to recover the songs onto my hard drive.
I've got windows xp, latest iTunes and an iPod video.
Sorry this was so long; just wanted to explain it as well as I could.

For iTunes version 7 or later, then you can transfer purchased iTunes store music from the iPod to an authorized computer by using the "file/transfer purchases from iPod" menu. Note that the maximum of 5 authorized computers applies here.
For all other non purchased music (your own CDs etc) try this method which works on some Windows PCs.
Enable your iPod for disk use.
See: iPod Disk Use.
Open iTunes and select edit/preferences/advanced/general. Put a check mark in the box marked "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" and also "keep iTunes music folder organized", then click 'ok'.
Connect the iPod whilst holding down the shift/ctrl keys to prevent any auto sync, and if you see the dialogue window asking if you want to sync to this itunes library, click 'no'.
Then go to file/add folder, open 'my computer', select your iPod and click 'ok'.
The music files should transfer to your iTunes.
If this doesn't work (and it may not because officially it's not supposed to), check out the instructions/suggestions here.
Music from iPod to computer (using option 2). This a manual method using "hidden folders" and although it works, it can be messy.
Much easier ways are to use one of the many 3rd party programs that copy music from the iPod to the computer.
One of the most recommended is Yamipod. This is a free program that transfers music from iPod back to the computer. However, it does not transfer playcounts/ratings etc.
Another free program is Pod Player.
SharePod is also freeware.
If you want to recover just the structure of playlists from the iPod (and not the actual song files themselves), there's iRepo for Windows. which I understand has this feature along with all the standard features for these programs.
There is also CopyTrans. This does preserve ratings/playcounts etc if those are important to you but this program is not free. It also supports video transfer.

ITunes says songs are copied to iPod, but they're not there

I'll preface this by saying I'm a newer iPod user (since March of this year).
I added a bunch of songs to iTunes tonight on our other computer that has XP. It said the iPod was updated and could be removed from the USB (first time it's ever said that, usually it says "iPod Update Complete" on iTunes, but "Do Not Disconnect" on the iPod). I go to listen to my iPod tonight, and none of the songs I added to iTunes are there -- not one. I'm not sure if this is related, but a couple days ago half of my songs in iTunes had the exclamation point next to them indicating the file was gone; search of the computer turned up nothing (most of the songs I added tonight were the ones lost).
Is it something I did?
unknown Windows 98 n/a

Hello,
I am not sure, but please have a try
f your iPod shows up in Explorer under 'my computer' try changing the drive letter:
-- Click on Start=>Control Panel=>Admin Tools=>Computer Management=>Disk Management
-- Right-Click on the iPod and select “change drive letter”
-- Choose something further along in the alphabet that is unused (Usually, “M”, “N”, “O” or something similar)
-- Safely eject the iPod
-- Reboot the PC

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