Music Won't Sync From Itunes Correctly

For what it's worth, I've dealt with two senior advisors and my case was escalated to engineers. I know that's happened with other posters on this thread as well, so it's disappointing to hear that there's no coordination on this issue. Tell me where to yell, and I'll yell.

I recommend that anyone who still has this problem try the detailed method I posted on page 9 of this forum-- it's mostly about getting rid of duplicates but also covers the bases by quickly addressing other possible causes.

Like @medora66, I was in touch with a senior advisor and had my case escalated to the engineers. They stopped following up on it after I resolved my issue with deduplication. However it's disheartening to get the impression that apple is not in sync (pun acknowledged) on it, as the following are all true:
*Multiple people have reported the same issue to senior engineers

*Multiple people (including me) have sent the thread to THIS CONVERSATION to them

*Another post (in this thread, I believe) goes into detail about the duplication problem, the tool to fix it, and the idea that APPLE is aware of it.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I would have been much more comfortable over the last month if Apple had simply said: Yes, we are aware of it, and we are working on a fix. The silence, instead, is deafening.

Well I don't have the time to trawl through my music library looking for duplicates.

I know I have plenty from Michael Jackson (from his original releases and greatest hits etc).

I've never had this problem with the iPhone 4S. Apple is well known for releasing products that 'works' out of the box. Well with the iPhone 6 we have to jump through multiple hoops to get a compromised working product.

Thanks Matt this worked for me :-) I was worried I might have to reset my phone again and wipe everything of so was relieved when I only had to wipe my music which I already had on

I have iCloud for Windows installed. I logged out of iCloud on my PC. Uinstalled iCloud in Remove Programs in the Control Panel. I restartet PC. I then readded my music to the iTunes Music Library and made a sync. Now I can sync my music without problems:)

So if you have iCloud for PC installed. Try and uninstall it.

I actually had this problem on my Iphone 5 but was still annoyed to see it again on the new iphone. I've just upgraded to Itunes 12 so thought that might be the issue with my Iphone 6 not syncing properly. Anyway this is what I did and it worked:

1. Go to the summary tab for your iphone on Itunes.

2. Uncheck boxes which say 'Automatically sync when this iphone is connected' and 'Sync with this phone over wifi'

3. At the bottom of the screen you should have a button with 'Apply' on it. Click it.

4. After a couple of minutes your iphone should start syncing.

Note: I had my music in playlists rather than just sync all music. I had the ghost tracks originally and itunes was saying they were on my phone. This fix changed them from ghost tracts to actually existing on my phone. I uploaded 45gb.

Hope this helps!

Crikey, this got really complicated; here's my ten pennies worth.

On my iPhone 5C, because I only had 32GB storage available, I'd only chosen some 62 of my 200+ playlists to sync; this worked quickly and perfectly.

Now I have an iPhone 6 (Plus - not sure it matters a whole heap), with 128GB of storage and which I set up from my 5C's backup. This went fine.

Then, because I now have the space for all 39+GB of my music, I selected "Entire music library" and pressed sync.

This took a long time, and once it had finished, I checked out what had been installed on the iPhone; this was the original 14GB of my selected playlists from the 5C; even though I'd asked for all my playlists. Too, because iTunes, poor thing, seemed to be really confused, possibly about the conflict between some playlists and my later instructions for all, the sync process went on, and on, and on. With no satisfactory result.

I checked in thee forums, and noticed a lot of people suggesting pretty much everything, some solutions which worked and some worked for some people, but not for others. I didn't try any of these solutions; my solution was, somewhat drastically, to deselect all the playlists I'd originally selected for my 5C, and which were stubbornly being applied to my 6, and then just selected one playlist which I knew only had one song in it.

Then I hit sync again, but the coloured bar at the bottom showed I still had 3000+ songs on my iPhone. The sync went on for a long time, with nothing apparently happening; one sad iTunes just kept its wheels spinning, trying to figure out which instruction to follow; in the end it was taking so long, I force quit iTunes, which was not a comfortable idea.

Having left the screen with, apparently, my 3000+ songs on my iPhone, after I reopened iTunes, lo and behold, I only had one playlist on my iPhone.

I then, bearing in mind that I'd force quit the last time I was in iTunes, did a sync, and this went through very quickly.

Progress of sorts.

I then select the "Entire music library" and dived for the sync button again. Once all 7951 songs (39+ GB) were transferred - this took a while - a subsequent sync went through without difficulty, and, more to the point, as quickly as could be expected, in about 10 seconds, which might be what to expect considering nothing had changed.

This worked for me, in that I now have all my playlists on my iPhone, it's just a pity that I had to jump through so many hoops to get there.

I hope this might help others in the same boat at I was.

What appears to have worked for me is:

- sync with nothing checked/ticked - no photos, tv shows, etc.

- sync a single song, make sure it's working

- sync a few more, make sure it's working

- build up from there - perhaps then see if adding photos is the problem, etc.

Until I un-synced all other media I couldn't sync music properly.

First sync with updates and same error occurs. This is ridiculous.

I had this same issue, on Windows 8.1 with iTunes 12 and my iPhone 6 128GB. I tried every solution I could find to sync my music, but it constantly stuck on waiting for changes to be applied, or if it got to the next stage it would sit there forever saying copying song 1 of x and never progress. The thing that finally appears to have fixed this is using MP3Val to check all my MP3 files (http://mp3val.sourceforge.net). It found a fair number that had garbage at the end of the file, especially podcasts for some reason, but after fixing them all my sync is now working and I'm happy again! Seems either the new iPhone or new version of iTunes is a bit more finicky than before.

Anyway hope this helps, as it took me a fair number of tries to find a solution that worked for me.

Thank you to Martinboy1974, for help with this fix.

Windows 7 Computer...Silver Verizon iPhone 6, 128 gigs...

I logged out of iCloud Control Panel

Uninstalled from remove programs in the control panel of the PC

Restarted PC

I manually removed all checked music (playlists, artists, etc.) from iTunes & hit sync.

I added all the music back. I synced multiple times after, added & removing playlists. it worked every time!

I reinstalled iCloud control panel & syncing still works perfectly.

*** DISREGARD THE POST I JUST MADE *** Refer to this...

Thank you to Martinboy1974, for help with this fix.

Windows 7 Computer...Silver Verizon iPhone 6, 128 gigs...

I logged out of iCloud Control Panel

Uninstalled from remove programs in the control panel of the PC

Restarted PC

I manually removed all checked music from syncing (playlists, artists, etc.) from iTunes & hit sync.

I never needed to remove the actual music from the iTunes program. I synced multiple times after, added & removing playlists. it worked every time!

I re-installed iCloud control panel & syncing still works perfectly.

This solution worked for me:

1. Searched for EXACT duplicates. Found 3

2. Deleted one copy of each. Emptied trash.

3. Re-sync'ed

iPhone6 running iOS8.1, Mac running OS X 10.10, iTunes 12

I have the 128 gig 6 and am using a pc with windows 8.1. 1800 tunes mostly from non Apple sources, and yes, some duplicates, because I just reloaded my new computer and haven't had time to weed things through . I unchecked all music, closed itunes, the reopened itunes and checked all music. Make sure you go to your device and check the "sync music" box is checked. It then synced all 1877 tunes with no problem in about 15 minutes.