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Iphone 4 syncing music but not showing on phone

I have been trying to do this for 2 days and I am unable to get it to work. I have sync'd my new iphone 4 to itune (all ok!) when trying to put on a play list from itune to the phone it "says" it's done it but when i go to my phone (the ipod app) it doesn't show anything in there.

I have been through and sync'd it with the play list clicked and then un clicked it and re-sync'd it so it deleted it again. it does show up on the itunes sync page (when phone is connected) as having 952.46 mb of music on there (which would be the playlist) but when i go back to ipod on the phone (again) there is nothing there.

I have sync'd and un-sync'd so many times I just don't get it! The itunes panel says it is on teh phone but the phone can't find it.....

I know th emusic works as it's all on my actual ipod and i play it at work etc so I nkow teh music is teh right format for apple etc just don't know where it can be hiding on the phone!

Any help would be very welcome! 🙂

iPhone 4, iOS 4

Posted on Jul 27, 2010 3:55 AM

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Aug 1, 2010 10:27 PM in response to abimpg

I am having this problem as well. One thing I noticed is at first the disk space usage will show the space is taken up by Music, but then after the phone is disconnected/reconnected, the disk space usage is shown as used up by Other, no longer by Music. I believe there is a corruption internally in the directory, but I tried restore with no success; the same problem comes back after a restore.

Aug 2, 2010 11:46 PM in response to abimpg

ALso having the same problem. I activated the phone, then as part of a Restore from previous iPhone backup, I spent 6 hours waiting for my music to convert to 128k and transfer. At the end, iTunes complained that it couldn't fit all my music on. My iPhone 4G drive was totally filled, but nothing on its iPod, despite iTunes telling me there was over 11GB of music.
I removed the Music sync to get rid of all my music, and have been slowly adding playlists one-by-one. It's annoying, but it's working at the moment.

Nov 4, 2010 11:03 AM in response to abimpg

My brand new (as of yesterday) iPhone 4 (sync with iTunes 10) had this problem straight out of the box - sync Music etc, all seems to go well, no error messages but when I open the iPod app is displays the message "no content".

In frustration, I did a full software restore which ended in a sync. This time, iPod shows my stuff. I play music, watch video and go to bed happy.

The following day, iPod shows "no content" again! I have done nothing other than switch it on! Clearly, there is some part of OS4 that is corrupting the iPod content.

What I find very disappointing is that there is a 200+ page topic in the forum that lists all those people who had this on iPhone 3 with OS3! So, Apple have preserved a bug across major versions of the OS.

What I find most disappointing is that there is no trace of this issue in the online support - only in the forums. There's not even an article saying "we know it's there and we're looking at it, but haven't got a solution yet". It feels as though Apple is in denial about the whole issue.

Anyone in Apple willing to comment?

Nov 23, 2010 5:22 PM in response to abimpg

I had the same problem with my iphone just after I updated my software to the 4.2 version. Luckily I was able to fix it. First I downloaded a song from iTunes to see if it would remove the "no content" message on my phone when in tried to use my ipod on my phone. It didn't work; however, I reconnected my phone to my computer and clicked transfer purchases and, after that, the message was gone from my phone and all of my music showed up again. I had to spend $1.29, but it worked. I hope this helps resolve your issue as well.

-Rick

Nov 23, 2010 9:24 PM in response to abimpg

I just found this problem after I did the 4.2.1 iOS update. Noticed that if I go to the "first screen" to do a Search in the iphone, there they are! But when selected to play, "No Content" appears!!! What's going on here? I have over 600 songs and some videos and now nothing shows. iTunes says the space in Audio is occupied (have the same size as before), but again, NOTHING!!

Please HELP!!!!

Iphone 4 syncing music but not showing on phone

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