Why won't my iPod sync properly with iTunes?
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After having my iPod set to "manually manage music and video" for years, I decided to give "sync" a go - it works absolutely PERFECT between my Apple TV and iTunes on my MBP (actual media is stored on a NAS, but library is on my MBP) and I just want it to be "simple" when I plug my iPod in, and for it to just make whatever changes I've made to my library; updating a playlist, change of album art or other metadata to a song, removing unwanted songs, adding new ones - without me having to do it all manually. As said, it's PERFECT with my Apple TV (1st gen) and I want the same for my iPod...
So, I plugged iPod into MBP, wiped it so it was bare, then unticked Manually Manage, and iTunes told me it would sync all music and video blah blah. I left "Sync entire library" ticked under music, and unticked video and tv shows (don't need on my iPod) and let it sync.
End result - 6613 songs. Strange as my library is 6629
Unplugged it, plugged it back in and pressed sync (just incase that would magically carry over the 14 missing songs) - so it did the "Determining songs to sync" then started syncing 1850?!?!?!
Stopped it, as I'd had this prob before, and did a restore of the 1.1.2 firmware (already had this on it, but thought I'd do a restore and change it's format from windows to Mac) and resync'd...
This time I got 6627 songs, and videos. So when it was done I unticked video's and it removed them from my iPod, leaving me with 6627 songs. Still two missing - and no idea how to find out which two!
So I pressed sync again. It "determined tracks to sync" then finished. Obviously it didn't sync anything.
So I unplugged it, plugged it in, and it began autosyncing (even tho I disabled autosync in prefs?!) and lo and behold - it's now resyncing 1216 tracks that are already on my iPod!!!
Going to the status bar that shows how many songs, vids, gb of data, etc in iTunes instead of being 53gb full it's now 43gb full, clicking it to change to how many songs it's showing 5411 songs instead of the 6627 it originally had
Why is it deleting songs and resyncing them?!?!
When I plug it in to update a playlist or add three new songs, I don't want it resyncing thousands of songs that are already on it, and I don't need to sit there for hours waiting for it to be done when three songs should take seconds to finish!
Why is it doing it?!?!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6), iTunes 10.1(54) + iPod Classic (1.1.2)