Why doesn't my itunes recognize my ipod nano 6th gen anymore?

Question

I recently purchased a lot of new songs and downloaded the newest version of itunes.  Now when i plug my ipod (6th gen) into the USB to sync with itunes it shows that it is charging ("connected - eject before disconnecting") then it ejects itself and the whole time itunes never registers my ipod.  So frustrating!!  I've restarted my computer many times, i've uninstalled and reinstalled Itunes many times.  I've tried holding the sleep/on/off button with the volume down button to restore it then i get a message  from itunes saying that it can't restore my ipod because of an error.....  What can I do???  Please Help!!!!

Answer 1

burtontexjap wrote:
Why doesn't my iTunes recognize my "Songs for Japan" CD,
iTunes gets information about all CDs from a database called Gracenote (which has nothing to do with iTunes/Apple), but if no one has entered the information about that CD into Gracenote, that's why your iTunes cannot fill in the track names. You could send that information to Gracenote yourself by completing the track names and artists and then clicking on Advanced/Submit CD track names. That would help everyone else in the future.
However, you then go on to say;
burtontexjap wrote:Recently my computer's iTunes doesn't recognize any artists, even the ones I've uploaded before.
If your iTunes cannot get any track information for any CD, then either your iTunes isn't connected to the internet, or your iTunes setting have changed. To check your iTunes settings, go into Edit/Preferences/General and look at the tick-box (check-box) named Automatically retrieve CD track names from the internet. There should be a tick (check-mark) in the box.