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iPod not syncing music

I have an iPod 5 with the latest update. And in addition to the other problems I have met with this new iOS7, the biggest is not syncing music. At first it just didn't sync new music. I would unplug it and start over and resync many times but to no avail. I eventually removed all music and then tried readding them and now only the first song of each album shows up. Then I tried restoring the iPod and that appearently made it worse because now less songs than before are showing up. I have over 2000 songs but still plenty of room for more so that can't be it and the songs that do appear now appear twice for some reason. One is apparently the purchased file and the other one is for icloud.

iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Nov 11, 2013 8:55 PM

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Nov 25, 2013 1:26 PM in response to nobunaga1981

Glad it worked out for you. I would appreciate if you mark this helpful to let other users know how to solve this problem! :)

Best Regards,

OrlaG

Dec 26, 2013 8:29 PM in response to Darion1A

I uploaded a song from my IPad into ITunes and it won't appear on my ITunes App on my Windows computer. I don't have a clue what to do. Any suggestions? IPAD 2

Jan 3, 2014 3:51 AM in response to Beaches Eternal

My favorite is iPodDisk. It mounts the ipod/ipad like a drive with all the albums and artists. By far the best in my opinion.

Jan 16, 2014 7:04 AM in response to Darion1A

signing out of the store on both my iPod Touch 5 (iOS 7.0.4) and iTunes 11.1.3 then syncing fixed the problem for music that wasn't transferring during sync for me. I've yet to see if it works again once i sign back in on both devices.

But my books and PDFs still don't sync properly - books i downloaded from the iTunes store seem to sync, but epubs from project Gutenberg don't and some PDFs do and some don't. Can't make heads or tails of it. Used to work fine in iTunes 10 / iOS 6. Maybe the transition to the separate iBooks app when i upgraded to 10.9 messed things up. But really, that's something apple should have tested and tested and tested…

This is all pretty absurd on Apple's part. The whole iPod syncing thing is overcomplicated and buggy. And it is a critical function of the product!

I like lots of options, but they should be logical, not arbitrary. And they should function as advertised! For instance when you want to change the way you do things (sync vs manual), it has to remove everything from the iPod, etc. That's like a big middle finger to the user - do it our way or else…

Mar 18, 2014 9:11 AM in response to Darion1A

I just bought a new Ipod Touch 5 and had the same issues and tried to restore and still not luck - by accident I noticed music match is automatically turned on and I have a lot of song Itunes would never have in their store so I turned it off and turned off Icloud. Again I have way too much music for Icloud. It worked - I can sync and all my music came over!

May 13, 2016 7:56 AM in response to Darion1A

I had the same problem with my old iPod (iPod Classic). one day suddenly it stopped syncing any new songs and after i restored 2-3 times, it synced few songs and then stopped syncing. message displayed - iPod sync is complete.

I made a new iTunes library, downloaded few songs and tried syncing through this new library. It worked and iPod was able to sync. Thereafter, I deleted this new library and then reopened my old iTunes library and tried syncing again my iPod. After going through the warning that 'do u want to sync through a new iTunes library' (which i clicked YES), it erased the songs on iPod and did complete sync of my 7500+ songs to the iPod.

This worked for me, I hope it works for others as well.

iPod not syncing music