Itunes doesn't sync. all my songs

+The songs are NOT read-only... and the permissions are exactly the same as of the songs that have no problems being synced by iTunes....+



How about FULL CONTROL and OWNERSHIP?
This page has a screenshot of what I'm talking about
http://www.blogsdna.com/2159/how-to-take-ownership-grant-permissions-to-access-f iles-folder-in-windows-7.htm



If they are grayed out in itunes, something is wrong with the Windows permissions.
Good catch on noticing that only the ones that are grayed out are hte ones that won't sync to the iPod!

Hi again and thank you for the feedback.

While I'm doing what you suggested let me refer to some things I've noticed (before applying your suggestion)

- Most of the problematic songs (if not all) are stored in an internal HDD. The problems occured when I recently upgraded to win 7 from win XP.

- I have noticed that even when I remove the READ-ONLY status from the properties of the folders... if I right click -> properties I can see again the Read-Only status !! Maybe because I'm not the owner (as you suggested) ??

- The above mentioned HDD seems to have an owner that is not me... probably a remain from windows XP (?).

- Changing the permissions to Full control for those folders/files/songs that had the issue helped a bit: Now these songs' Get Info is not greyed out !! when I right click on them on iTunes. BUT: some of them seem to sync now, other still won't !!

So what I'm gonna do now is follow these steps and give feedback:

1) Take Ownership of the folders/files...
2) Change the permissions of those folders to Full Control for the user I login with on my windows 7
3) Uncheck (again) the Read-Only status on those folders...

let's hope these 3 steps will do the trick

thanx again

Ok so actually the ownership change did not have any result.

Only after I changed the permissions, all the songs have now an editable "Get Info" window, and it seems that some of them are now able to sync to iPod, but unfortunately NOT all of them...

Hey! Progress!



Take ownership and full control of the top-level itunes folder. Make sure to check the box to apply those permissions to all subcontainers (which means all the subfolders within the itunes folder).



Then restart itunes so it will read the new permissions.

I am glad I am not the only one. I have sent an e-mail to Apple Support. Could be there is a problem with iTunes not recognising non-iTunes material in iTunes 10?

Yes it's progress... 🙂

I have no music files within the Music/iTunes/... folder.
All my music is contained in two HDDs, one internal and one external.
However I have done what you suggested to the top level iTunes folder.

Overall the conclusion so far is that the ownership / permissions procedure helped a lot, at least in the case of the non-editable songs.

There are still a few dozens of those songs (now editable in iTunes) that still won't transfer to iPod.

When I find time I will try to "create iTunes MP3" versions of them, but in the meantime if anyone comes with a more efficient solution, please post it here.

Katrina thank you again.
Your help is much appreciated.

And here is a strange thing:

I have an iTunes playlist called 80's songs.

I compare the songs included there, with the ones included at the corresponding playlist that is synced to the iPod.

The iTunes playlist has 650 songs
The same playlist in iPod has 649 songs...

I was able to find which song was not synced to the iPod...
So I go and "Create and MP3 version" of that song. I re-sync the iPod.
Result: now, that particular song has been transfered/synced to iPod, but the iPod playlist has now only 648 songs... which means that 2 other songs failed to sync !!!

Ok here is another update:

As I said above after taking care of the permissions of the songs, and successfully making them editable on iTunes, some of them will now sync and some of them won't.

One partial solution is to find the songs that won't sync (which is really difficult when you have playlists of hundreds of songs) and create a new MP3 version with iTunes.

Now I', experimenting on something else... I edit those songs via iTunes and I add/change something on their tags, for example I type a composer, or the year field, etc.
I have tried this with 3 songs and it seems - so far- to work..! These ID tag changes seem to "wake up" iTunes and after a new synch, these songs seem to sync to iPod!
Now I don't want to sound too enthusiastic about this, because there is a chance this will happen only for a few songs.. as every other solution I tried... above.

I will report back when I have more songs edited and -hopefully- synced to my iPod by editing the ID tags...

So far everything is going smoothly.

I had playlists of aprox. 350 songs (each one) in iTunes, and after the sync, there were only like 287 songs of them on iPod (at that specific playlist).

Instead of going through every un-synced song, I selected all the songs in the specific iTunes playlist with the purpose to edit the ID3 Tags, and see if they would then be synced.. to iPod

I did not want to change important tags such as artist, name, album, etc...
So what I did was that I selected all the songs within the playlist and I edited the (pretty useless) "Comment" tag field. So it was like editing simultaneously the comment of all those songs, and I wrote whatever non sense I wanted there (e.g. rock music, or just pressed two spaces...).
This way, all the songs of that playlist were now having a newly edited tag.
On the next Sync.. all the songs were transfered successfully to iPod !!

Yay! This means success!

Let's hope this lasts.... and no fresh terrifying sync issues will come up in the near future...

That is so VERY odd that rewriting the tags let them sync, but whatever works!
Well done on discovering that!
I do use the Comment field, also the Grouping field, but if this happens to me I will use the Sorting field on the Options tab.


Last night I had a few songs say they would not be synced because they couldn't be found. When I did a Get Info, itunes found them OK. And, they did sync to the ipod.
Yikes.


I just upgraded to itunes 10.1 this morning but haven't synced yet.

Yeah, it seems that something had to be changed within those .mp3 files (at my case changing the ID3 tag worked) for iTunes to actually re-sync it all over again as a whole new song... or something