Recent Purchases (Since Apple Music Launch) Fail to Sync?

As I understand it, Apple Music requires an Internet connection so that you can listen to the music. Since the Classic doesn't have Internet capabilities, you cannot use Apple Music with the Classic.

I have a similar issue. I buy a song on the iTunes store(with iTunes 12.2.1) and it comes into my library just fine with the correct artwork.

The issue arises when I try to sync that song to my ipod classic 120gb. The song and artwork appear to have synced but when I play the song its a completely different song. For example the prodigy would play for an avicii song. It seems to be only bought songs and has only been occurring since iTunes 12.2 was released. I thought upgrading to iTunes 12.2.1 would fix the issue but it has not. I also did a complete restore on my ipod but the issue still occurres. Is it something to do with the ipod classics os? Has anyone come across this and managed to fix it?

Generally behaviour like this suggests the library on the device has become corrupt in some fashion. If the issue persists after a complete restore then perhaps you have used sort values to link different things together in a way that confuses the indexes on the device. See Grouping tracks into albums for more information.

tt2

"perhaps you have used sort values to link different things together in a way that confuses the indexes on the device."

Well I've gone through my library with regards to the above and can't find anything that would suggest a problem.

So I tried a different tactic. i deleted the offending track and the track which was being synced to the iPod.

Ie the track which was supposed to go on the iPod ( avicii ) and the track which went onto the iPod with Avicii artwork etc which was a Neil young song.

So there is no Neil young songs now in my library (yes i deleted it from the main library as well as any playlists).

The song still goes onto my iPod under the avicii Artwork and song title....... how is this possible......it just doesn't make sense, I even formatted the iPod in disk utilities......

I assume that the correct track plays in iTunes?

What happens if you restore the device and copy just this one track over manually?

tt2

"I assume that the correct track plays in iTunes? What happens if you restore the device and copy just this one track over manually? tt2"

I tried that too but no joy.

Success!!

I finally sorted the issue and think i know why its occurring.

I deleted ALL of the songs that were coming up instead of the intended songs and all is ok.

As long as one of the corrupted songs was in the library.....all the songs were corrupted (about 8 songs)(by corrupted i mean a song that plays while displaying a different song name and artwork)

Once these 8 corrupted songs were found and deleted all was restored.

The reason for this happening is (what i think) my iPod classic is old and has had plenty of knocks and the hard drive has a good few bad sectors in it and as these bad sectors grow it corrupts songs. So anytime i fix iTunes using my iPod these and others get corrupted. Would anyone agree with me on that?

Thanks for your help TT2!!

Sounds plausible. See Corrupt iPod classic to see what the state of the device is and also Backup your iTunes for Windows library with SyncToy. You shouldn't get yourself in the position where you need to recover data from the iPod.

tt2

Im actually on a mac (mavericks) and i use Time Machine and carbon copy cloner to back everything up on two different hard rives as well as my iMac.

But i use my iPod as a backup for my Music too....i think your right, maybe it is time to stop using the iPod as backup. Thanks again for help.

You're welcome. 🙂

tt2