I have about 7 GB worth of music, all complete albums, that I'm trying to sync on my phone. I select Entire music library and hit apply. Before I hit apply, it shows me 27 GB free on my iPhone. Then, it finishes the copying process way too quickly. After the sync completes, it says 34 GB free, and there is only one song per album. I tried choosing the artists and albums individually, removing all music and re-synching, and nothing worked. What could be the problem?
IPhone – iTunes syncs only one songs from each album
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"Sync only checked songs and videos" was un-ticked.
When an iOS device is connected to iTunes, under the device's Summary tab, the Options section has a checkbox Named "Sync only checked songs and videos"; this option enforces the removal of music that is not set to sync if it has been synced to the device in the past.
Ticking the box and then syncing removed the offending album.
figured it out, it could be that i did this in the old itunes and because it was years ago i forgot and that updating itunes reset every setting
anyway, here are the steps i followed
- click on the icon in the top left hand corner and select show menu bar (or Ctrl + B)
- click on View > Show View Options (or Ctrl + J (you may be able to skip step 1 but i didn't use shortcuts))
- Make sure Sort By is set to Album
- Click in the checkbox beside Show Artwork
- make sure that under the Music Section that the checkbox beside Album is checked, if it is not the albums will not be sorted alphabetically like they really should, while you can sort by what ever way want sorting by name will split albums and you'll only see the groups if 2 or more in the list have belong to the same album (ie.
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Optional Parts (stuff i did because i like it)
- Check in the checkbox beside Always Show - unless the size of the list of songs in an album group is greater than or equal to the height of the artwork it wont show, i would say 7 songs cause alot of Opening Soundtracks i have have only 4 tracks, with Always Show checked the list of songs in an album has 3 spots left
- Set the Artwork Size slider to max (may have an affect to what i have explained above)
EDIT: these steps also work up to 12.0.1.26. Though when I installed it the default view for music was Albums. When you do step 2 make sure the view is set the view to Songs otherwise the options from Step 3 onward will not appear
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Best Answer
This is a bug in iTunes. Restarting iTunes and re-syncing solved the problem.