Songs Missing From iPod

I have checked a number of songs in iTunes and synchronised with my iPod yet a number of songs have not synced. I've found a few of the songs and checked/unchecked/rechecked them in iTunes but they just wont sync. (I'm not syncing the whole library, just the selected items and yes, I have selected "Sync only checked items")
I'm not sure how many more songs are not synchronising as well.
Why would a song not synchronise to my iPod? The song plays perfectly in iTunes, it is an MP3 so I can't see what the problem could be...
I've searched the help and the forum and there is nothing I can find that states that certain types of files wont synchronise so I am at a loss to understnad what is going on...
I just want to listen to my songs on my iPod... It shouldn't be this hard...

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Have you played the songs in iTunes for a few seconds? This will authorize them. Now sync your iPod. Do they play?
If not, make sure everything is up to date on your computer...
iTunes
iPod Updater
If that doesn't work, in iTunes, go to advanced-->deauthorize computer. Now play the songs in iTunes. It will ask for your account information (from the iTunes Music Store). Enter that. Now play a few purchased songs for a few seconds. Sync your iPod. Do the songs work now?
If they don't, please post back for more suggestions.
btabz

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If you're going to "help" people, then maybe you need
to work on your bedside manner. If you don't get
that you were rude in your response, then you can't
be helped and I personally don't want yours.
Oh that's nice, so you think it must be an honour for anyone to give you advice and help you?
If you want advice for free you have to accept personal manners more or less as long as the comment is within normal ettiquette. If you pay for the advice you of course can expect the form the advice is given but not if it's in a free forum like here.
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Then you go on to say "The weird thing is that the album Is on his Ipod as songs".
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The best place to start is with this.
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The problem arises because the information contained on the Gracenote CD Data Base (where iTunes gets all it's album/artist/track info from), is sometimes incorrect. It can show CDs as compilations when in fact they are not, although in this case I think it is a copmilation and the CDDB is correct.
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See: Some songs don't don't show under artist on my iPod.
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Sorry for my english guys, i come from Rome! Thank you in advance

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I've seen similar threads but my issue is slightly different. I do apologize if this is a duplicate post.
In many of my playlists, a song will now be marked as missing by an exclamation point. However, the song is still in the library and I can manually locate it. This is happening to too many songs (70 at last count) so it is a PIA to fix. Any ideas how to automate this? Suggestions on how to stop this from happening (this isn't the first time)?
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i do normally auto update, and there is some music in itunes that I have moved around or deleted, more specifically, itunes cannot find it-however the music HAS stayed on my ipod!! do you know why this is?
Not really sure.
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