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Some of the songs could not be copied to iPod...
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Is this the most useless dialog in iTunes?
Why not? How many can't be copied? Which songs?
Also - why does it change depending on which iPod you have?
Gah!
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Could it have something to do with bit rate? What are the relevant statistics on the song that failed? (compression method, bit rate, where you got it from, etc.)
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Usually it's because you've moved, deleted or renamed the file. That's what's happened to me every time I've seen that dialog. And it tells me to go clean up what I've done and reimport it.
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Glenn -----
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It's not been moved. The file is a 160kpbs MP3 - Shall we say I didn't rip it myself, and it didn't come from iTMS.
It's the uselessness of the dialog that annoys me - It doesn't say how many songs fail - or which ones other than the first.
The odd thing is that it worked on my old (1st gen) iPod - but not my nano.
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160k ought to be fine. I'll have to check what's on my wife's nano, but my very first batch of MP3's were ripped on a Linux box at 192k, and I'm pretty sure she has some songs from that batch there.
Maybe there's some corruption in the headers that iTunes can tolerate, but the nano can't? If you transcode the song to AAC (keeping a copy of the "original" around, of course), maybe that will fix the problem.
It does seem curious that these songs play fine on your 1G, but not your nano. Have you tried copying songs like this onto the 1G since the newest versions of iTunes came out? If they work, then iTunes is actively flagging some songs as not nano-worthy. Strange....
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Good thinking - have converted to AAC - will see if that solves it. hmm - just seen that you can update the ID3 tags too.
Alas the original iPod is kaput - thus the new one.
It's a pity converting the song loses the number of times it has been played.
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It seems to have worked, nice one. My grumble about the UI of that dialog still holds though. 
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Originally Posted by Diggory Laycock
It's a pity converting the song loses the number of times it has been played.
It doesn't have to be that way.
1. Convert the file.
2. Delete the new file, but choose "Keep Files."
3. Ctrl-click on the old file and select "Show Song File."
4. Delete the old file in the Finder (not iTunes). You may need to empty the trash.
5. Get Info on the old file. When it says it can't find it, choose to find it yourself and browse to the new file.
6. Now you can enjoy the new file with the old file's info.
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