Problem solved

Back in August or maybe September, I bought an iPhone. I’d been waiting for prices to drop on old models when the new ones were announced so I grabbed the model I wanted when this happened. For the most part I’ve been really happy with the phone. I went back to Apple due to my past investment. (I wanted to stick with Windows but there has been less and less support in the past year so I decided to jump back sooner than later.)

There was one problem that happened right from the start when I transferred my data from the old iPhone to the new one. My music did not sync properly and some albums had tracks missing and some tracks played other songs, even for those few tracks I have from the iTunes store. I’d been trying to fix the problem for some time but had had no success. I finally did some real searching on it and found a fix and tried that but it didn’t work. In the midst of this I reset my desktop os due to ongoing problems which may or may not have contributed (I know now this didn’t have any connection). I also deleted all the music I’d been keeping on the hard drive. Over the years music directory had become quite a mess and I thought somewhere in there was yet another iTunes file that I had overlooked. Getting rid of all of it seemed a good idea no matter what. Well the reset didn’t make any difference and the deletion of songs didn’t effect any changes when I added music back again.

I went back to my searching and found so-called fixes on the Apple discussion boards. I again tried all the steps included and reset my phone one more time. This time it worked so I was able to stop pulling out my hair over this issue. Plus my music directory is nice and tidy now that everything is consistent. I still have a lot of music to add back to the directory and then to my phone but I can actually listen to full albums without a problem now.