leaveycelena
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Q: iTunes suddenly not syncing complete playlists to iPod shuffle

ive Been using the same shuffle for about 6 months, I'm a runner so I frequently change up the playlists that I put on my shuffle for races, training runs, etc. everything was fine until today, when suddenly, only 4 or 5 songs will sync to my shuffle, even thought the playlists I have in tunes are much longer than this. also  noticed all of my playlists are not available to me to simply sync, only a few of them are, and even when I select these, it only gives me a few songs. Does anyone ow what it causing this? Thanks!

Posted on May 25, 2016 6:16 PM

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Q: iTunes suddenly not syncing complete playlists to iPod shuffle

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  • by jonty_b,

    jonty_b jonty_b May 25, 2016 6:20 PM in response to leaveycelena
    Level 2 (192 points)
    iPhone
    May 25, 2016 6:20 PM in response to leaveycelena

    Hi,

     

    Is your iPod running the latest iOS (iOS 9.3.2)? You can check by going into settings -> general -> software update on your device.

     

    Hope this helps!

     

    Jonty

  • by Kenichi Watanabe,

    Kenichi Watanabe Kenichi Watanabe May 25, 2016 6:56 PM in response to jonty_b
    Level 8 (40,249 points)
    Mac OS X
    May 25, 2016 6:56 PM in response to jonty_b

    It's an iPod shuffle...   It has no screen, and does not run iOS.

  • by Kenichi Watanabe,

    Kenichi Watanabe Kenichi Watanabe May 25, 2016 7:08 PM in response to leaveycelena
    Level 8 (40,249 points)
    Mac OS X
    May 25, 2016 7:08 PM in response to leaveycelena

    Are the songs in your iTunes library stored locally on your computer's drive?  If iTunes loses access to your locally stored song files for some reason, it may start accessing them from iCloud.  This applies to songs purchased from the iTunes Store, and if you have an iCloud Music Library, it can applies to all of your songs.

     

    Select your Music library in iTunes, and use the Songs view, to show a plain list with columns.  If the iCloud Download column is not visible, make it visible (right-click column heading row of list to show/hide columns).  The iCloud Download column is narrow with a cloud symbol in its heading.  Do you see a cloud with down-arrow symbol (in the iCloud Download column) for any of your songs?  If you do, those songs are currently being accessed from iCloud.  To sync to an iPod, the song's file needs to be stored locally on the computer's drive.

     

    If this is not the problem (all song files are stored locally), please post back with any additional details.

  • by leaveycelena,

    leaveycelena leaveycelena May 25, 2016 8:02 PM in response to Kenichi Watanabe
    Level 1 (4 points)
    iPod
    May 25, 2016 8:02 PM in response to Kenichi Watanabe

    This was the problem.  thank you so much for your help.