Same songs re-synced to iphone every time

Whenever I sync my iPhone to my MacBook Pro, it copies the same 823 songs again. This adds several minutes to the sync procedure. It appears that many or most of the songs copied every time are a lower bitrate than average.

This problem has been happening for some time, and I've been hoping that new versions would solve it, but no. Please help if you can!

Computer: MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021)

macOS Monterey: Version 12.6.2

iPhone 13 Pro Max

iOS: 16.1.1

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Jan 6, 2023 5:31 AM

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Williamvv Author

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Posted on Jan 16, 2023 4:42 AM

Next sync, the number dropped to 812.

I have worked around the problem. I noticed that many of the song names flashing by were spoken word audio instead of music, so I decided to stop syncing them.

I went into the finder and changed the Music settings for the phone. I changed it from "Entire music library" to "Selected artists, albums, genres, and playlists." Then I included all genres EXCEPT those that contained spoken word instead of music.

Next sync, voila! No unnecessary syncing!

Still curious why!

Thanks once more!

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