Synced Music Doesn't Appear on iPod Touch
I just got a new iPod touch about a month ago and tried to sync it to my iTunes on my windows PC laptop (it's one year old). Since I'm here it obviously didn't work. I have the newest software on my iPod, and the latest version of iTunes. Ive tried restoring it, that also didn't work, it wiped my iPod and wouldn't put the new software back on. I had to use my family's desktop PC to restore it. I synced it on that computer and it worked fine.
I tried to sync it back onto my laptop and the messages that keep popping up are:
'The iPod “Name's iPod” cannot be synced. The required disk cannot be found.'
'The iPod “Name's iPod” cannot be synced. An error occurred while writing to the device.'
It also says that some of my (perfectly good songs that I downloaded off iTunes) songs are corrupt and cannot be synced.
After all this I then remembered that I had never actually synced an iPod to my laptop before. I synced my old iPod nano (Gen. before the camera, cant remember. Only a year or two old?) and it worked fine. I also synced my sisters iPod touch (older version with the newer software) on my laptop and it also didn't work. I synced my iPod to her exact same version laptop, and it worked.
I tried Restarting my computer, Reinstalling iTunes, Restoring my iPod, nothing works on my computer. It works perfectly fine on other computers though.
I should also mention that when I sync my iPod, on my computer it shows that space has been taken up by music, but nothing actually downloads onto my iPod.
Help would be much appreciated.
Message was edited by: Zimmer483
I'm having the same problem. My iPod shows no music, nor my videos; yet, when I connect it to my laptop and it opens on iTunes, it shows all my music and videos. I'm hoping it'll go back to showing it on the iPod, but I'm worried I might have to reset the iPod
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