songs not downloading from itunes to iPhone

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songs not downloading from itunes to iPhone

i have an interesting situation with songs on my iPhone 3GS - i added some songs from mt cd's to iTunes and checked them to download to my phone - i have only sync checked music set - some of the new songs downloaded fine - about 5 (all from 1 cd)dit not - i dont think its a format problem with the songs because

1) they play fine on itunes on my computer and they are checked
2) when i checked manually manage music and dragged the songs to the phone icon in itunes they then downloaded onto the phone and play quite happily

i searched the archive to see if i could find something on this but wasnt able to

Anyone have any ideas on whats going on - its not a space problem because the songs are now on the phone and i have lots of free space - its just that songs from ths one cd loaded into itunes would not download to the phone even if checked in itunes

also there was no error msg like something about authorization which i gather some other people have had from my search of the archives

Thanks

IPhone, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Mar 4, 2010 1:01 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 4, 2010 1:09 PM in response to needleman_mark

Have you checked the 'Sync Music' field on the Music tab of your Device in iTunes ?

Thats the master control ....

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needleman_mark Author

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Mar 4, 2010 1:22 PM in response to Graham Outterside

yes because some of the songs i added did sync with the phone - just not the ones from this cd - and in the music tab the songs that didnt sync are checked just lie the ones that did sync

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wjosten

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Mar 4, 2010 1:34 PM in response to needleman_mark

With your phone connected, itunes running, on the music tab, do you have a check in the box labeled, "Selected Playlists, Artists & Genres? If so, do you have checks next to the artists?

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needleman_mark Author

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Mar 4, 2010 2:03 PM in response to wjosten

yes - all those oxes are checked - even removed the songs from itunes an reimported them

what interesting s although the cd is by 1 artist it does not show up in the artist list either in itunes or the phone - the songs from it show up under compilations - so i checked the playlists box as one of the playlists in the music tab on the iphone in itunes - i guess i wasnt wxpecting it to show up in itunes as a compilation - its downloading the songs now

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wjosten

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Mar 4, 2010 2:07 PM in response to needleman_mark

What you probably should have done after you imported the CD is gone up to the "Advanced" tab & selected "Get CD Track Names".

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needleman_mark Author

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Mar 4, 2010 3:22 PM in response to wjosten

the track names are listed in the list of music under the music tab in iTunes - every track ive imported from a cd has alway been listed without me having to do anything special - and they all have downloaded to the phone except this one

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needleman_mark Author

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Mar 4, 2010 5:31 PM in response to needleman_mark

in fact i just imported 2 cds to iTunes - although I only imported selected songs from one - which is what i usually do - one downloaded to the Phone quite happily - the other didnt but when i checked mangage music manually i was able to move the songs from the cd that didnt download onto the phone and then they played quite happily - i wonder if this is something with this new version of iTunes

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