New issue syncing iPod classic with iTunes

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New issue syncing iPod classic with iTunes

With Apple software it's always a lose-lose, you can never win.

After a long and hard struggle to find out what was wrong with my itunes installation (12.9.4.102), I'm now facing a new issue. (I even get nervous when I'm about to use iTunes, given how prone to errors it is.)

Now everytime I connect my iPod to iTunes, it resyncs (over and over again), the very same tracks that I had supposedly synced the time before, which has me fuming. And it's not little, 4.5 tracks each time.

Any ideas?

Posted on Oct 9, 2019 8:11 PM

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Answer 1

turingtest2

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Oct 10, 2019 12:11 PM in response to jrsousa2

Do you make use of the Grouping field in your library? A while back iTunes changed which field was used to store the value. Legacy libraries may show the value in the Work field as well as in Grouping, or instead. Non-empty values in Work appear to trigger repeated syncing. Certain types of duplicates in the library (two or more items pointed at the same file) are also an issue.

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jrsousa2 Author

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Oct 10, 2019 4:55 PM in response to turingtest2

It must be that. I use the grouping tag (which used to be stored under contentgroup, but for some reason Apple decided to change to tag Grouping - which is kinda pointless, since tags are all the same, just their metadata names change.)

How do I solve this?, should I delete all values that appear under the tag work?

It seems Work has the same values that used to be under contentgroup.

The Apple IT team makes such a mess with these things, it's just bleak, their design plan is erratic.

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