Not syncing new songs?

Hi Jackie,

I've had this exact problem too. Sometimes it is because the Ipod's GB capacity is used up and there isn't enough space to load them. Other times, it's just being weird. What I do is I manually add them on my Ipod touch one by one. What you do is connect your ipod to Itunes. Then once you see the ipod icon showing it's connected and has finished loading and syncing, search the songs you want on it. Make sure they are all checked. Click on the first song and start dragging it to the icon; before you get there, it should expand and show several options including DEVICES and PLAYLISTS. Finish dragging it to the one that says Ipod Touch under DEVICES and when it is highlighted in a blue box, "drop it in", and it should automatically start syncing onto your ipod. Wait until it finishes loading, then repeat until all the songs you want added are on your ipod. Hopefully this helps... 🙂

Message was edited by: empire_of_the_sun

Oh 😟 well maybe this could also help..

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1420

I am having the same issue... did you ever figure it out?

Did you try syncing a bunch of songs at the same time because it can slow it a bit.

ipods and ipads are not compatible with compressed wavs this was my problem i dont know if yours is the same

Hi,

I had a similar problem, all you can do at present to rectify this is to grab your playlist or new created playlist or song from the main library or playlist and drop it into the ipod tab under devices and it will auto sync the changes or songs. Hope this helps.

There seems to be a problem with the syncing of itunes 11 (mine is 11.0.5) when you just use the normal sync method. the above should work and has worked for me when transfering a playlist straight into the ipod it automatically syncs.

Regards.

Nick

Before you do Empire's suggestion, you have to go to the ipod, click summary, and then scroll down and check "manually manage music and videos." Click "apply", then you can maneuver back to your playlist, select the songs you want, and move them to your ipod.

HOWEVER, once you do this, you can't uncheck "manually manage" or it will tell you it's going to erase your ipod and sync it with a different itunes library. Or maybe that's just because my syncing problem came about because I was trying to switch to a new computer.

I solved my issue once I discovered that the songs I had recently purchased had, as it turns out, not actually been downloaded to my computer, but only placed in iCloud. This for some reason seems to be the default behaviour (I don't remember seeing this explained clearly).

Further, this for some reason renders the songs ineligible for syncing / invisible to the iPod(?)

Once I discovered this, and then took the step of manually downloading the albums to my computer, they became visible to the iPod, and I was able to sync them.

Perhaps this will help some people encountering this frustration/confusion.

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xroox wrote:

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Did I read this correctly that the music may be downloaded to a desktop & then distributed to the iPod?

Or are you going directly to the iPod on download?

Fwiw: "Manually Manage" - from the desktop computer is the only way I’d roll, if that is an option. May be pertinent to the original question too. Helps to bundle music in playlists. Then it comes down to checking playlists you want included, without weighing every song one-at-a-time.

Best bet too, I think (unless someone has a better idea) is to create an overview playlist of all music loaded that did not come from iTunes purchases (in case there are any of those in the mix). Sort of “maintenance” playlists to work in the background.

Detail:

I have a very large music collection, split between iTunes purchases & imported off my disks.

Not everything on my desktop needs to be on every device, especially if the iPod or iPad has a small capacity.

iTunes is turning into more of a sales kiosk these days (imo) & doesn’t play so well with music not served from their store. It breaks out PURCHASED items by default, not the inverse.

If I have temporary music snippets / guitar phrases I want to loop while learning them - those are useless on the other devices as music & I would not include them, or create an exclusionary playlist.

If I ran down the wrong trail, my apologies.

Right, this site doesn't show replies in context... just one long line.

I had replied to empire_of_the_sun's post:

Oh well maybe this could also help..

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1420

I see this link as an answer to almost every question on this topic; definitely not helping anyone currently! 🙂

I had this same problem, and the same solution. It's REALLY frustrating, because it's hard to keep track of what I have downloaded and purchased. Do you know if there's a solution that will download the music by default, rather than just playing from iCloud? It's confusing to me, because when I purchase a song, it takes time to "download" ... you can see the progress in the little circle around the "play" button. So what is it doing if it's not downloading...?

Manually downloaded a bunch and then was frustrated this morning to discover that I couldn't find an album I recently purchased.

Thanks for this solution; it's the correct one.

Im having the same problem, and NOTHING is working.

I was buying and syncing music with NO problems then all of a sudden the last 5 songs I downloaded just will not sync to my brand new ipod touch!

I've even tried manually doing it like suggested here and still wont work! I had to go onto the ipod touch and look under recently added/downloaded to add them to the playlists I wanted. However, when I went to sync from my laptop just to see if it would finally work right...they disappeared off of my ipod touch!! I think Im just going to have to call Apple and see what the **** is going on.

So frustrating.