I turned on my iPod Classic 128 GB and all music content was gone. I charged it and the Apple symbol appeared and then it turned on with no songs/music at all.
I have not connected to iTunes at all recently.
Please advise.
kristeen
IPod Classic – music gone
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Could it be that some albums are tagged as "Compilation"? In this case the artists in these albums are not shown in the "Artists" submenu... Uncheck the "Compilation" check-box (or something like that - I don't use iTunes!) in the Information tab and they magically appear in the list.
PS. When you select an artist that "has" a proper album, the songs in the Compilation albums are also shown.
I believe that you can create a smart playlist, limit it to 160 GB (chosen randomly), and then choose to sync only that playlist. At least you can do something like this with an iPhone.
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Best Answer
My old classic used to do that kind of trick to me periodically.
I always suspected that the disk format was not particularly robust.
I found the only way to get it going again was to Restore it in iTunes & reload the whole library again - don't plan on being in a hurry, it takes ages.
One thing I did learn over the years was to always leave the lock button on [the little slider at the top, slid to show the red dot underneath] all the time unless I actually needed to interact with it.
Also to never leave it locked if I was about to connect it to iTunes, otherwise it would hang.
Remembering those two would let me run far longer before it played tricks on me the next time.