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Mar 16, 2004, 09:21 PM
 
Ok, here's an interesting question...

My iPod seems to missing one song from my library. iTunes indicates 3675 songs, but my iPod only shows 3674.

I've checked all of the protected AACs and I am authorized to play them all. I've also checked for files in iPod incompatible formats. I've converted everything so that I only have MP3, AAC and protected AAC files. I've even gone to the extent of restoring the iPod and re-syncing w/ my iTunes library.

Any thoughts? The idea of going through 3675 songs one be one is not a pleasant one. Anyone know of a good file compare util?
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Mar 16, 2004, 10:08 PM
 
Maybe there's a song in the iTunes Library list, but the actual file can't be found. Thus it can't sync. Just a thought.
     
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Mar 17, 2004, 06:47 AM
 
Originally posted by zachs:
Maybe there's a song in the iTunes Library list, but the actual file can't be found. Thus it can't sync. Just a thought.
Well, I ditto'ed the invisibe iPod_Control/Music folder to my scratch volume. I will try to compare the contents of that folder.

I found a couple of utils from Versiontracker, but nothing seems to be able to just compare file listings (new, added or missing files, etc).
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Mar 17, 2004, 11:51 AM
 
I once got a popup message from iTunes saying it can't transfer some songs because they can't be played. It then gave an example: ie: yousong here .

I checked the song and it was a mp3 file so I don't know why it said that my iPod couldn't play it... I dunno... Maybe that's what happened to you.

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Mar 17, 2004, 01:57 PM
 
Originally posted by MikeD:
I checked the song and it was a mp3 file so I don't know why it said that my iPod couldn't play it... I dunno... Maybe that's what happened to you.
I've seen that message. As I said I converted verything to AAC and now those files play fine on the iPod. I am not getting this message any longer (even after the restore), and yet it seems to be one song short.

Very odd.
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Mar 17, 2004, 03:28 PM
 
It won't sync unchecked songs if you've told it to ignore them, and it won't sync streaming audio bookmarks.

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Mar 18, 2004, 11:22 AM
 
When this happened to me I traced it to a streaming audio bookmark from the "Radio" section of iTunes.
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